All Baby has known in life is pain.
Years spent locked away in an attic to bare the agony of her father's brutal hands.
Family is a concept unknown to her since the moment her mother died when she was only a mere five years old.
Thirteen years sh...
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I stared disdainfully – a word I recently learned from Eliza in class, a word that fit perfectly... that was befitting – another new word I was taught, of exactly how I felt... towards the woman who had just stepped inside my room.
There was one color I truly dislike, and it was red.
I hated it.
I've seen enough of the color. Of all the different shades in came in...
... like blood.
It was like she was mocking me as she strutted into the room... wearing the awful color that left a foul taste in my mouth.
I couldn't help my lip curl at the disgusting sight of the thick ugly red clogs. They squeaked just loud enough to make my eye twitch as she walked toward the rolling table by my bedside and sat down a long black tray. It made a barely audible thud, as just because it was caused by her, the sound annoyed me even further.
The tray was covered in an assortment of dishes with clear lids that were misted over with condensation. Trickling down the sides of the lids, water droplets caused by the steam of the hot food parted the mist like Moses parted the Red Sea.
From between the mist, where the water droplets left a clear trail behind them, I could see the food that was waiting to be revealed. Tempting me, luring me in with it's yummy scents, begging for me to sink my teeth into them.
I crossed my fingers under the blanket that she hadn't prepared any of it.
Just the thought of consuming anything she made, filled my tummy with uncomfy feelings that made the corners of my lips pull down with unease.
I stared at the woman, who I thought of as a second mommy until the day I thought she had died... and looked over her judgingly.
She always seemed to wear the most bizarre clothes underneath her customary apron, something I learned a lot of the staff wore who cleaned, cooked, and did the gardening.
