Life of Deception

•Alone•

Karina's P.O.V.

I left as Alexandria passed out, I couldn't bear to see her like that. Now that's not to say I wasn't a bitch at times, well most of the times actually. I began to be influenced by aunt, it just kind of happened. I had to hold my tears back, she was the only one I trusted and she put up with so much shit from aunt.

I went to room 33. the only place I felt like I could be alone. Of course the addiction demon was there but he wouldn't bother me. He just kind of listened and hurt whoever aside from aunt hurt me. I walked in not bothering to lock the door behind me. I slid down the wall holding my tears back, I looked up towards the ceiling closing my eyes pulling my knees to my chest. I always had to pretend to be ok with what was going on. I was positively ok with killing and torturing victims, but not when it came to my sister. Karina get it together I thought to myself. I took a few deep breaths leveling out myself.

I stood up brushing my skirt off "Time to find a victim," I said to myself smirking. I left the room. It was pretty late, I walked about the halls until I saw a girl, about sixteen I'd say. I walked up to her "Can't sleep?" I asked. She shook her head, "No not really. There is something about this place that seems off.." I smiled "I live here, what's going on?" "You live here?" She asked. I nodded. "Well, just really strange almost agonizing noises and there is something not right." She was close on something, "Well I'll check on everything and make sure everything is ok." She nodded turned around, I took the chain mail glove I wore and slit her neck from behind, she turned a shocked look on her face. "And you thought I was the nice one," I smirked. She fell dead, I dragged her body up to my room, which wasn't hard surprisingly. Once there I drank from the wound I had created.

I drank until I was satisfied, I pulled my head up and wiped my mouth off with the back of my hand. I stood still high from the exhilaration of the kill. I walked out into the hall, Aunt cornered me. "Karina, our deal is you give me a share in your victims, then I uphold my end." She smirked before smacking me hard "You failed." She then drug me into her room. I knew what was next. She chained me against a wall. She then took a fireplace poker and stuck it in the fire, I gulped preparing myself. She stuck it deep into my leg, I could hear my own flesh sizzling; from the pain I saw stars. I leaned over gritting my teeth in pain. She pushed it in deeper, tears of pain ran down my face. She smiled and I looked up as she pulled it out of my leg. "You felt remorse for her, I could tell." Before I could respond she made a small but sufficiently deep puncture wound in my neck, I gasped in pain. She then did something unexpected, she took my arm rather gently and helped me stand and walk back to my room.

She sat beside me on my bed. I looked at her, she seemed to be remembering something. I bit my lip. I was about to say something until Alexandria came in the wound on her chest still fresh looking. "Karina-" She stopped seeing my wounds, she looked as if she was about to hurt Aunt but she refrained. "I'll help you dress them," she said with a tone that I had noticed she used around Aunt cold and detached. She went into my bathroom, I kept heavy duty bandages there, things like this happened often. She came back and moved the skirt of my dress to look at the leg wound. She put something on it, I wasn't sure what but it stung like hell. She then wrapped it and moved to the neck wound, doing the best she could with it. Elizabeth looked at Alexandria as she worked, she felt sympathy and remorse for half a second it felt like, then she made herself snap back to reality. The neck wound made it harder to talk so I stayed silent. Alexandria sat beside me when she was done. She gave me a side hug, "I'm so sorry," she whispered in my ear. Elizabeth glared. "Alexandria," she said coldly. "Leave us." Alexandria returned the glare before getting up and waltzing out. That girl had resilience is all I'll say. Aunt turned to me, "Karina, this is for your own good trust me." She then stood up and took her chain mail glove cutting my arm one last time before leaving. I watched her leave.

Soon after Alexandria came back in and she sat beside me pulling me into a hug. She was my older sister and I knew she felt the need to protect me. I allowed myself to cry into her shoulder, she stroked my hair. "Alex... I am alone, only you and Tate care," I said through my tears Alexandria was unsure of how to respond. "Karina, rest." That was all she said, in a gentle tone. I returned her warm smile. She left slowly I could tell she was worried about me. I then laid back on my bed closing my eyes knowing the nightmares would haunt me.