In a dark room where shadows awake, stood a child silently crying for her mother to stop blaming her for how things turned out to be. She watched as her mother consumed another bottle of alcohol and threw the bottle on the floor in a reckless rage. The crashing sound of shattered glass startled the child, she put her hands in her mouth to stop herself from sobbing.
Her mother scares her.
It scares her more than the shadow, those little dark things hanging around her footsteps. She was told as a child that shadows exist as a punishment to bad children, that it watches everything and at night, when no one is looking, the shadow will slowly gnaw at the flesh of the sinners, consuming what is there until there is nothing left but flesh.
Those stories lingered in her mind like an unwanted song that kept playing and playing on broken records. Those stories are the worst kind of punishment for her, she would rather be spanked or hurt rather than to listen to those stories. It always left her anxious, paranoid, she ended up losing sleep in fear that the shadows might consume her.
She is scared that she's been a naughty child in return the shadows will feast on her sleep, and she will never wake up again.
She heard the footsteps of her mother coming towards her. She hid herself perfectly in the closet where can see her mother through the small hole. She locked herself there every time that her mother started drinking again in fear that her mother would hurt her again.
"Rei! asan kan bata ka! pag nakita kita hutay ka sakin!" her mother shouted, it echoed through the room. Sometimes, Rei wonders what in the world she had done to deserve this? To be prosecuted by her own mother, to be endlessly worried that every time she'll use her voice she'll be reprimanded, slapped and hurt.
What did she do to deserve that kind of torture?
She was just a child.
She wonders if the reason why her father left her was because of this, she never knew him, all she is he left her with her mother. She doesn't even know what he looks like, if he was fat? or thin? If he was a good person or not. She will never know. Her mother always told her that she is unwanted, that no one likes her, that she is the reason why her mother's life came to ruin.
She left a small sob and that's been her mistake.
"Rei!" Her mother shouted, banging at the door of the drawer, she was scared so she cried and cried. Her mother shouted again, her angry voice promising violence and pain. In the end she was nothing but a punching bag, a scapegoat to her own mother.
The door of the drawer opened and the hell broke loose.
Rei, cried as her mother forcefully pulled her out of her hiding place and started hitting her in pure rage. She tried looking at her mother's eyes only to see nothing but hatred there.
As the sun slowly sets, and the light evades the room. Screams and sobs echo from the mouth of a little child who did nothing but to exist. Darkness invades space as the shadows consume them all.
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