PROLOGUE

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TRIGGER WARNING MENTIONS OF DV AND MURDER ⚠️⚠️

AUG 25 , 2005
mercy green hospital

the hospital room had been filled with the loud cries of the new born baby girl who had just been pushed out of her mothers womb

"she's beautiful" the woman said admiring her newborn daughter , in the corner of the room stood her husband , mike

now mike wasn't this baby's father but that's another conversation for another day ....

AUG 25 , 2017
"Happy birthday to you" the people singing filled little amira's ears , it was her 11th birthday her mom had thrown her a party at the park with all her friends and family , it was mostly family though , little amira didn't have many friends out of her 5th grade class she was never the social kind even though she was still very young , she knew she didn't like many people

after she ate cake and food she got to play a little more before she had to go home

"amira come on honey it's time to leave the party is over " her mom said to her coming to grab her off the monkey bars where she was hanging upside down with her only two friends kaliana and makayla , the three of them were stuck together like glue

"mommy no ! can we stay a little longer please !" amira begged her mom with a toothy grin still hanging upside down

"no honey i told mike we'd be home by 8 o'clock it's 7:50 you know how he gets baby come on" her mom begged her to come on so they could leave , amira was young but she wasn't stupid and her mom knew that and didn't try to pretend that she didn't , she knew her child wasn't like every ordinary 11 year old , she was different which is why she didn't sugarcoat certain things

she never told her daughter that mike was abusive , she just told her that he got angry sometimes and did mean things but athena knew her child was intelligent , she knew that amira knew the true meaning behind her words , mike was hurting her and amira knew and didn't like it one bit

"okay mommy" amira hopped down quickly and said goodbye to her friends and left with her mom

when they got home mike was on the couch seething with anger with a beer in his hand and little white residue on his nose

"it's 8:10 what time did you say you'd be back?" he spat the question at her in a nasty tone

athena swallowed hard and bent down to amira's level so they could be face to face

"go upstairs and get ready for a bath and don't come down until i come up , i'll be up to read you a story and tuck you in okay ?" she says softly to amira , not wanting her daughter to see what mike was about to do to her

"okay mommy" amira ran upstairs but she didn't go into her room and get ready for a bath , she stood at the top of the stairs with the bat she had hidden in her closet , she was tired of mike , he scared her mommy and to tell the truth her too

now i know what your thinking , a freshly 11 year old girl against a 40 something year old man ? no way right ? wrong . amira would do anything for her mom , anything

so instead of waiting in her room she stood with her bat ready for him to attack her mom so she could kill him

soon her expectations came to be true , a loud SMACK could be hear throughout the house followed by "YOU WHORE , I TOLD YOU TO BE BACK BY 8 AND YOU COME BACK AT 8:10 ARE YOU A DUMMY TOO ? ANSWER ME" smack ! he hit her again , then again , and it kept going until a piercing scream broke amira out of her place and caused her to run down the steps and at mike full speed and hit him dead and center in his knees

he fell to the ground in agony but amira took her chance and hit him again with all the strength she carried in her little body and she didn't stop until her mom was pulling her away and screaming at her to stop and calm down

once she stopped she looked down at mike and noticed he wasn't moving and his face was all bloody

"m-mommy is he dead" she asked in a flat tone , she didn't feel bad she didn't feel remorse or any of the feelings she should've been feeling after she just murdered a man with a baseball bat in her mother's living room she felt ... happy ? she felt relieved that mike was no longer an issue for them

athena checks his pulse "yes , dammit amira why didn't you just beat him a few times" she says in a snappy tone , she wasn't angry at her daughter for killing the man , she was angry because they'd have to go through a lot to stay under wraps now

"i'm sorry mommy are you mad at me" amira asked about to cry , her mom meant the world to her , that was the only person who could make her care enough to cry

athena rushed to her daughter and held her "no i am not angry . i'm sorry for snapping sweetheart but we have to clean this up" after a while of holding amira letting her know she wasn't angry they had to start cleaning and fast

amira cleaned the blood out of the carpet while athena took his body to the outhouse in the back yard and burned his body and smashed his bones with her sledgehammer , she did all of this and felt nothing but happiness at the fact her and her daughter could be at peace , finally

going back inside she made amira take off her bloody clothes and threw bleach on them and then decided she'd burn those aswell as hers , after they took showers they laid on the couch and talked

"mom , what happens now , mike is dead and he was the one who paid the bills , i'm happy he's gone but are we gonna be homeless ?" amira asked her mom

"no sweetheart everything is handled already" she responded and they fell asleep

she didn't lie , everything was handled two weeks later they moved out of that house , she had told everyone that mike ran out on her and she had no idea where he was , amira on the other hand had told her two bestfriends kaliana and makayla what had really happened

"you killed him !" kaliana said outloud

amira covered her mouth quickly

"you guys said you wouldn't judge" she said looking a little sad

"oh no ! we're not ! i swear we understand mira , he was hurting you and your mom you did what you had to do to protect her he was gonna kill her first" makayla said , makayla was older then kaliana and amira , by a month or so she always thought she was the "wise" one

"yea i wasn't judging just shocked" kaliana said , they weren't scared of her , they knew their bestfriend would never harm them knowing she killed somebody at the age of 11 did put them off a little but they love her so they stuck beside her

OCT 17, 2021

"NO you will not sit and tell my daughter that she is fucking crazy !" athena said snappily at the doctor standing infront of her

"ma'am , i didn't call her crazy i said she has antisocial personality disorder " the doctor explained calmly to athena

" why is she being diagnosed with all of this she is fine ! nothing is wrong with my baby !" athena said , she felt offended for her daughter because she knew that having that disorders made her different and she didn't want her child to feel like the odd one out , ever

"ma'am i can suggest we start therapy and medication for her" is all the doctor responded , this entire time amira said nothing , completely silent , this had been goin on for a few months, she had just one day completely stopped talking , athena missed hearing her daughter laugh and talk , now she doesn't even smile anymore she wanted to know what was wrong she wanted her daughter to speak again






okay so ik that was long af but i just wanted to give a back story on how she got onto medications

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