Esperanza (Hope)

Chapter 3

The ride to the hospital takes us two hours since our mum didn't allow us to call the emergency. Her only respond was "Do you want them to catch me being drugged, stupid boy!?" She hissed at me in her voice that told me clearly that she hates my existence.

Well, who can blame her anyway?

"Chris, do you want to stay in that car forever?", Luis asked and once again shook me from my daydream. I looked at Luis. He lost so much weight lately and his bones are slightly visible.

"Do you think it's something serious?", he asked ever so silently.

I considered that possibility already, especially because he lost so much weight but his face showed so much fear and sadness that I just said that it's probably nothing.

His face brightens a little. He always trusted my words since I'm the only one who's there for him.

"Let's get out of the car", I said indifferently, praying to god that it's not something serious.

I took a look at the hospital. I could never come here because than they would ask too many questions about my bruises and cuts that I did to myself when mum started abusing us.

Happily my brother doesn't have bruises expect for one.

He once accidentally let a glass bowl fall to the floor and paid with that with abusing and two days without food.

But I always found a way to sneak food to him.

I take Luis' hand in mine and together we head to the hospital.

"Hello, how can I help you?", the woman at the receiption asked, showing us her white teeth in a bright smile. That was more kindness than our mother showed throughout the whole year except for that one day of course.

It was a saturday evening and I was more than sick of all the mistreating of my mother and having to stand up for my brother all the time. I mean, I do love my.brother more than anything in this entire world but I just needed one day off.

I drove to the city and stopped in front of an expensive looking clothes shop named Diarer clothes.

I heard this name a thousand times already since this is the place where all my class mates go shopping.

They even mark me because they know I don't have that much money.

That was the day when I decided to take a look around when I stopped in front of the girls department where I saw Karen Shein standing, the girl I had a crush for since forever.

"Oh my god. This dress is georgous", she squealed and held it in front of her. "Yes, it's to die for! Come on, try it!", her friend, who I believe is named Britney, says and Karen happily heads to the dressing room.

I don't know why I still stood there and waited for her to come out but I just needed to see that dress on her.

Finally she came out and headed towards Britney."What do you think?", she asked self consicious, blushing.

"I think you look beyond pretty!", her friend stated with wide eyes which just made Karen blush even more.

Pretty was the understatement of lifetimes. The dress fitted her perfectly and the golden colour on the fragile material made her amber eyes sparkle even more than the dress sparkled itself.

My heart missed a beat when she twirled around. It looked breath taking how the glitter on her dress embraced her and her curly, blonde hair spread around the dress, making her look like an angel.

The moment didn't last long though.

Lulu, the it girl on our school came towards Karen and Britney with her barbie looking sluts behind her.