Dₑₗᵢᵣᵢᵤₘ

𝓝𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓮

"The best way to keep someone in a prison is by not letting them know that they are in one"

Dostoevsky was a damn genius.

If only he was dumber.

And so was she.

Annabelle thought biting into her ice-cream.

She has always freaked people out with that.

As she was indulging in her superiority complex with a side of ice-cream.

She felt a presence beside her.

"Holy shit" she thought.

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Annabelle was the doll as her parents had named her.

It's a secret that she wasn't her whole life though!

Quite the opposite to be precise...

A total happy go lucky idiot born into a family of geniuses.

She was dumb for as long as she remembered.

She lived in England till 04.
And with her father's side of grandparents house after returning.

Her mother despised her granny.
(One of the many things she despised)

Then her mother went to England for PhD.

Leaving her with her mom's side of granny.

And returning from there, she for the first time had a settled home.

In the University colony.

A small place with greens and flowers.

Old buildings and gothic walls, gates .
Also the intelligence spilling from the heavy spectacle'd people.

Thought she was dumb and went around assuming that she had finally landed on her heaven.

Without knowing that Rachel the shorty ,a girl a year or perhaps 2 months younger than her was waiting exactly to prove her wrong.

Rachel made her point by saying that Ana can't go up the slides , seesaws or swings in the local playground as it belonged to Rachel.

Ana was confused and of course, hurt as anyone would be.

Was it Hurt? Or perhaps failure was the right word. As until then, Ana hadn't really met someone who dislikes her.

But Rachel was making her point too often for Ana to think of other options.

In Rachel's defence, she was absolutely coo'ed on by elder girls before Anabelle's arrival.

So everyday, when Anabelle came to play Rachel wanted to "train" her by making her go up the slides upside down,

Walking over monkey bars, walking over seasaws .

Rachel being short and skinny pulled it off perfectly.Annabelle being chubby surely couldn't.

She cried home where her mum called her dramatic. Ana don't know why she didn't cry harder, that would've been more beneficial to her .

Annabelle couldn't explain why she never disliked Rachel. Infact, did Anabelle ever have "was sure of the feeling towards" person ?

Rachel was special as in quite the contrary, Ana  absolutely loved her .
Everyday after getting Beat up she'll run with a goofy smile.

That's why even now, five years later, Ana was walking with her arms around Rachel's neck, still a head shorter than her already short self.