Pasta Stories

Aquamarine Marlo

Twelve-year old Aquamarine exited the dark room, scrambling to adjust her skirt, this is her moms fault.. It has always been her moms fault. This had been a cycle since she was 5 years old.. And it made her sick. Everything hurt, her entire body.. Her stomach was twisting, she rubbed her jaw, feeling how sharp the pain was. The more she thought about it the more she felt sick, more and more till she couldn't take it. Aqua ran to the bathroom, she barely made it to the toilet before she vomited. A mix of the minimum food she was allowed to eat and a disgusting goop. Her brown and pink hair falling around her face. Her 'uncles' as her mother called them had been visiting so much more often since she started singing.. She knew now that her mother made money from it, she didn't get a cent of that money.. Despite how much she was hurting. She vomited again, more of the same grossness coming from her mouth, she gagged at the smell and once again vomited again, this time just stomach acid that burned coming up.

When she wiped her mouth and flipped around her sister stood there, causing Aqua a fright, the older girl eyeing Aqua's body, the pale girl shivered in her cropped shirt and short skirt that she couldn't make comfortable no matter how much she adjusted it. Rosaria smiled, stepping towards her, the smile becoming meaner and meaner. "You've been having fun with the uncle's dear child~?" she let out a sickening giggle. "Maybe go take a shower deary, Maybe binge a little bit on some cake? Ocean brought over the leftovers~ Strawberry and everything~ Though you'll end up vomiting it alllll up again you sick freak. Can't even tell mom no, Makes me laugh a little, Bet you cannot wait to turn 18, then you don't have to see the uncles ever again, Unless you want to" and with that the brunette walked out, heels clicking on the hardwood floor.

The youngest Marlo sniffled and bolted up the stairs to her room, and then to the conjoined bathroom, running steaming hot water from the shower faucet, Aqua stepped into the shower, feeling the hot water against the massive scar down her back, and the memory of her mother sitting on her, pushing her into the splits when she was only 6, the memory of the pain she felt as her spinal cord had snapped all flooded back. Her mother had shoved her knee so hard into her back she'd heard the snap herself, she shouldn't be alive. She didn't want to be alive. The fact that she'd healed so well and could still walk and was growing normally was a miracle. She grabbed around the shelves of the shower till she pulled out a razor blade, jamming the sharp edge into her arm, cringing at the feeling but not even caring as she tore her arms open. She eventually stopped, when the criss-cross cuts started to hurt less and less. She collapsed against the shower floor and sobbed for a while. Finally standing up to wash herself. No matter how much she washed her hair, washed her body, it didn't matter. She never felt clean, she felt dirty no matter how many bottles of wash she went through, it never mattered, it never ended, like Rosaria had said. She wouldn't ever be free.

The twelve year old stayed in the shower, running through her thoughts for a long time, till the lock on the door clicked and she heard a soft voice speaking in French in the room. Aqua peaked her head out of the shower and blinked silently "S-Siren..? What're you doing here...?" Aqua had been forced to speak English so often that now, speaking in her first language felt unnatural for her. Siren continued to babble in French, she was ten and yet much less mature than Aqua in appearance and personality. Aqua smiled softly "you... you wanted to cheer me up.. I'm guessing your sister told you about.." she paused, looking at her body, which was now wrapped in a towel as she'd climbed out of the shower. The blond infront of her nodded sadly and hugged her, handing her her fuzzy pink strawberry pajamas and Aqua smiled. In no time the two girls were huddled up on the couch watching Aqua's favorite movie, Love Quest. A cheesy teenage American romcom. The older of the two girls loved the movie because the movie's heartthrob was played by Kenneth Davis, this was his first movie ever but he won his place as Aqua's favorite actor immediately as she blushed the second he came on screen, she'd even sent him fan mail. While she hadn't gotten a reply she didn't mind much, she just hoped he enjoyed the candies she'd sent him. The female popstar continued to stare at the screen, Siren giggling at the fact she could've had hearts in her eyes had this been a cartoon. At the end of the movie, the male winked at the camera and Aqua squealed out loud at the sight. The two girls sat through the whole movie like 3 times before they had to go to bed. They ran up to Aqua's room and the young girls cuddled up with all Aquas plushies in her canopy bed.