Beautifully Tainted

chapter 1 - Who?

4 years ago
Summer(2012)

The sun rose yet again. It was an angry shade of red, slowly turning redish yellow. Her eyes shine brightly as she savors this beautiful sight in front of her. Breathing in the air filled with the freshness of morning dew and the soothing soft earthy scent fills the surroundings. She takes a slow, deep breath, a soft smile lingering on her lips. feeling proud as she successfully woke up before she could miss this heavenly view. Humming to herself, she takes out her phone, trying to capture the beautiful sight in front of her and keep it with herself for as long as she desires. *click* "Um.. nah" *click* "Not bad" *click clic- click* (click×40) "This should be enough, " says with a cheerful voice.
She stares at the picture she took, once satisfied, slips the phone in her pocket. She looks at the sky with dreamy eyes, taking in as much as she can before drifting off to sleep 'again'.
Slowly closing her eyes, she listens to the chirruping of birds and feeling the cold yet fresh morning breeze, making her hair flutter along softly. She takes a deep breath, muttering to herself, "Now I feel alive."
She enjoys the freshness of the morning until she realizes,
"Time to go back," she says with a small voice as she walks away with a sad smile on her face.
She slides into the comforter beside her mother and drifts off to sleep in her mother's warm embrace.
...

Her breaths are slow and steady as she sleeps like a baby, her long lashes falling on her flushed cheeks. she sleeps in the weirdest posture one could think of, still looking cute with her tiny stature.
She twists and turns in her sleep groaning. Pats the matters beside herself, in search of her mother only to find it empty and cold, feeling sad for a split second.
She curls up in a ball as much as possible and then stretches her limbs out, as though a baby chick broke out of her shell.
She yawns, slowly peeking through her lashes, staring up at the ceiling with sleepy eyes, looking like a starfish with her spread out limbs.

? : "DIVYA, GET UP NOW, WILL YOU?! YOU'RE GETTING LATE! WASH UP AND GET READY!"

Divya - "I AM! I was not even sleeping, mumma!"

Mom - "I know, I know. for sure, you are not the one who was drooling in her sleep just now." *chuckles*

Divya - "Argh! Not me! I don't drool!! *she whines* "it must be dev!"

Dev - "Stop slandering me, sis. I woke up ages ago. And I am heading to school now, bye-bye princess divya." *walks away laughing*

Divya - "YOU!.. No, no, I don't have time to take care of this BABY!"

Dev - "I. Am. Not. A. Baby." *glaring*

Divya - "Oh, yes, you are."
She grabs the phone, looks at the time, and shrieks -

Divya : "Oh my go- oh my god! what do I do? I'm so dead now."

She struggles to get out of her bed in a hurry, falling back on the mattress, burying her face into - god knows where. kicks the blanket out of her way, hurries over to the bathroom, cursing the d*mned blanket.

-- Hi. My name is Divya. And this is my small family, including me, mumma and my Devilish baby bun, my little brother, Dev...
oh - *realize* and a... father *sigh*. Life here is not bad. it's just.. a little bit complicated? But that's a story for another time. So, back to me, I am a middle schooler, currently in 7th standard. People see me as a model student (idk why), probably because I perform well on exams? Only if they knew how much I hate studying. Oh, I forgot to tell you something. My sweet mother is a vice principal and is currently working at a government school nearby.
I must be a disgrace on her image as a teacher (that's just what I think, I mean, as a teacher's daughter, I should at least try to study, right?)
But the only thing I do is- "OH MY GOD, I'M GETTING LATE!"