Xavier Thorpe x Kiara Rossuae || Pain Under a Smile of Beauty

Homeschooled Life

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(Kiara POV)
Hey, I'm Kiara, currently 10 years old. Right now, I am being homeschooled. I think being homeschooled isn't that bad! I like the quietness around my house when my siblings aren't annoying me. They are too young to be in school. B/n, my brother, is 4 years old, and s/n, my sister is 1. They cry, laugh, play, y'know they do childish things! That's what really sucks about staying at home all the time, siblings. My mom stays at home with us, she does part-time accounting work at home. My dad on the other hand, he's travels a lot for work, he's a travel agent. I think it is nice to have mom at home with us if I need help on homework or if my younger siblings have an accident or something. I couldn't imagine life without my mom home.
Where I live, everyone is considered an outcast. Many gorgons live in my town, vampires too, some shapeshifters, but very little werewolves, psychics and sirens. I think the werewolves are pretty cool. I have an ability like others in my community, but I do not have the same ability as anyone else here. I wear gloves to protect myself from taking someone's ability on accident just like how I took my mother's ability, forever(future r)... The name of my ability is hybrid,* but you can only activate it by touching someone. I've heard a rumor going around that there is a Hyde going around in town killing people, i'd hate to see that hideous monster. I've seen a few pictures online, it kinda creeps me out. I need to start getting pictures of evidence of monsters, too many roam on the earth and need to disappear. I'm gonna start keeping a notebook of all the evidence of monsters, they fascinate me and yet scare the living life outta my soul.
Day after day, night after night, I kept sneaking out to find monsters and outcasts in their full form. I drew pictures while hiding in the shadows, took notes. I have seen plenty of werewolves now, I find them interesting in their form "wolfed out." Werewolves from my imagination but scarier. I had some decent pictures in a book I kept with me and always made sure to date the pages. I have not seen a Hyde yet, which either means they are dead or haven't showed up yet. I got some incredible pictures of vampires at night. Prime time for them to show up is around 1:30-2 AM. Once, I caught mom & dad doing it in the trees? What the Jesus did I witness, I needed bleach ASAP. I haven't seen very many gorgons at night, maybe they like the day more, not sure. I have spotted a few in the same spot, almost always near a pit of sticks n snakes to interact with I guess? They have snakes on their head similar to Medusa. I was able to get pictures but if one was looking in my direction, I covered my eyes, always.
This was so much fun for me, until my mom found out.
I needed to figure out a good excuse to cover up why I had a notebook full of monsters in it and why my window was left side open every night from sneaking out. I panicked a little bit, if I told a lie, I might be able to get away with it but get punished later; if I told the truth, I would at least get my butt beat and grounded for awhile but wouldn't have to worry later. I told her the truth, and she seemed angry and upset with me. She said "You're too young to be doing that! Let the scientists explore and you stay out of that. She turned around and walked out to the bedroom for a minute, then came back out with the belt in her hand. (@bus3 warning coming up). She whipped me with the belt on my butt and on the rest of my body. Bruises would start to show up sooner or later. The pain was very immense, and I cried hard. I screamed and squirmed but kept getting beat and my legs eventually went numb for the whipping, I couldn't even walk. I started sobbing, balling my eyes out. I was bleeding from many places on my body and left a disastrous mess on the floor. I was starting to feel quite lightheaded and very dizzy, then I collapsed to the floor. My heart was still beating, still breathing, and had all vital signs checked.
(Mom's POV)
I released my anger out on my daughter and beat her. I didn't really have control at that point, it just happened in the blink of an eye. I got myself back together and saw my daughter laying on the floor conscious but not moving. I was trying to keep my cool, but it wasn't working. "Kiara please don't die on me, I didn't mean to full on rage at you..." I called 911 immediately and Kiara was sent to the hospital.

*hybrid - the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties, example (in Kiara's case) gorgon + werewolf traits & characteristics. If "wolfed out" form, she would have gorgon snakes (on her head & snakes would increase in size), everything else would be werewolf traits

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