Collection of Povs

oh mother.

Clarisse swallows hard as she forces herself to walk up the dimly lit hallway making her way up to the apartment where her and her family lived.

The air felt too heavy to breathe and every breath she took made her feel like she was choking on it,like her lungs refused to take in the offered air.

Was this all in her mind? She couldn't tell at this point.

Everything felt fake. Her body aches from the pain that her new boyfriend caused her. Everything seemed to burn,to scream for help. Like it wanted to escape.

Finally the door to the apartment came in her sight. Foggy but there. She reaches for the doorknob and turns it around, stumbling into the dark entrance, falling over the shoes and landing hardly on the ground.

"Oh fuck..",she groans as she tries getting up but her arms and legs just give up. And before she could even collect herself the light was switched on. She whines and lifts her head staring up at her. Her mother. Juliana just stood there. Glaring at her second born. The only daughter ever there. The one she expected so much off. Yet she got this.

"So you decided on coming home,huh?",she spits those words out as if they were pure venom burning into clarisses skin. Clarisse grunts and sits up. Finally. Everything seemed to spin around her like she could feel the earth rotation.

"Yeah..yeah",she mutters, avoiding Juliana's hard gaze on her. But she knew it was far too late as she could see her mother kneeling down in front of her. Clarisse felt her mother's cold hand grasping her chin, pulling it up so clarisse was staring right at her. Juliana exhales the air sharply as she stares at her daughter.

"What the fuck did you take?",she hisses at the sight of clarisse her heavily dilated pupils which where darting around the room like a nervous animal,captured in a place it didn't belong in. She looked everywhere but just not Juliana.

"So?",Juliana's voice again comes up but Clarisse wasn't even registering it. Her mind was far too dizzy. Far too gone as that she could even fully notice anything.

Her mouth opens but nothing escapes from it before it shuts again.

"Fucking god.",her mother brings out,letting go of clarisses chin and shaking her head in a visible disappointment.

Juliana inhales the air sharply and Clarisse closes her eyes, already knowing what would come next.

But the awaited stinging pain on her cheek didn't arrive. It didn't come. And somehow that made her feel even more empty.

"I don't even have the strength to slap some sense into you",Juliana angrily mutters and gets up again.

"Don't you dare come to me before you aren't in your senses. You hear me?",Juliana orders as she walks back to her bedroom.

Clarisse nods. "Of course mom.",she whispers

"Don't call me that!",Juliana glares at her as if Clarisse was some sort of stranger "You don't deserve calling me that. Ever."