Crushed

Chapter 19

Chapter 19 - Red

A tall slender figure, wearing a red and black lace neck dress, wrapped her arms around my 6 year old body. Her long silky ebony hair that ended at her calves was pinned up in a plaited summer up do. Her sharp features were hard to forget, along with her bright emerald green eyes and soft baby pink lips. She smiled at me and brushed her slender fingers along my cheek.

The woman I saw in the dress, was my one and only mother. As I said earlier, I have only my step-parents left. How? My parents got divorced and then my mother married my stepfather before she died. My father died two years after her. Then my stepfather married my stepmother. 

They hate me. Because I will inherit the humble abode they are living in when I turn 18. In four months. If you could call my house, a large two story house with 15 bedrooms, two swimming pools, five bathrooms, two lounge rooms, a large kitchen, a dance studio, two gym, a games room and four spas, humble. In other words, I'm rich. And when I turn 18, everything including my parents' money and house will be transferred to my name. Then I can legitimately kick my step-parents house for every horrible thing they've done to me. And if you're thinking, what can they possibly do to you that's so bad? The answer? Try forcing me to be their servant.

"Anna where did you get this dress?" I asked.

"Oh yeah, I based it on your mother's dress." She replied, tying a black ribbon on the hand of a hot pink mannequin. "I hope you don't mind. That's the only one. I was going to give it back to you, but I forgot."

"No, it's fine." I replied through slight gritted teeth.

"Take it, it's yours anyway." She called out from behind the black wall.

I pulled the tag off and hugged it close, I could almost smell my mother's scent, larkspur and vanilla.

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My phone bellowed out Firestarter; Samantha Jade and I dropped my magazine and leapt for it. "Hello?"

"Hey." Replied Logan, his voice deep and sexy.

"What's up." I lay back down on my king-sized bed, hair sprawled out.

"I have to tell you something." He murmured softly.

I shivered. "What?"

"My first is foremost legally, My second circles outwardly, My third leads all in victory, My fourth twice ends a nominee, My whole is this gate's only key. What am I?"

Hmm. L. O. V. E. Love?! "Love?" I sat up with a jolt.

The line went dead. Wait. Am I dreaming? I pinched myself. Nope. OMG OMG OMG. LOGAN LERMAN JUST GAVE ME A LOVE RIDDLE. I sank back down into my bed and flipped my dark blue cover over my shivering body. I drifted to sleep, mind still lingering on that moment.

"Georgie!" Called my mother.

"Mummy! I'm here!" I cried out, running through the maze of hedges.

"Georgie! Where are you?"

"Mummy!" I screamed. "Mummy!"

"Georgie!"

I ran into my mother's arms, she locked her hands around me. "Mummy." I buried my head in her shoulder.

"I'm sorry Georgie." She murmured.

My head jolted up. "No mummy! What are you talking about?!"

She stood up and stepped back.

"Mummy!" I screamed, tears leaking down my cheeks.

"Georgie." She whispered and reached her hand out, and started fading.

I ran with all my heart. But it was too late. I ran to her transparent figure. I collapsed into a puddle of red blood. "MUMMY!!!" I screamed.

I sat up immediately, panting. They had come back. Those dreams. The last time I had them was after she died. I looked over to my wardrobe, where her dresses, the original one and Anna's design, hung on the door. A single tear rolled down my left cheek. Followed by one from my right eye. I couldn't hold it in. Tears bellowed down my cheeks, soaking the collars of my pyjamas. I wiped the last tear and slumped down, crawling into a ball and cried myself to sleep once more.

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Sad/ exciting chapter here. I finally reveal her background. It was so sad, I nearly cried when I wrote the end. :'(

~staraniseblue XD