Beast-tamer.

Chapter 3

Lily's pov
I glared at the blue eyed pale-skinned guy with pale blonde hair.
He smirked and I felt like tearing it off his face.
He introduced himself as Stefaan and I told him to just call me Scarlette. He scrunched up his face in a way that would make girls think that he is so cute but he disgusted me....
But I calmed myself. Since coming here my emotions have become more volatile as if there was an ancient deep buried fury in me that is trying to escape and cannot be controlled any longer...
It wasn't only the fact that I didn't trust this guy but it was also I was uncomfortable with the attention I was getting from other students. I knew that their eyes were on me because of him.
We walked or rather he led me towards the lockers where I saw Lucy with other blondes like herself. They all looked similar, except the students were wearing uniforms and me and Lucy didn't as we had to take our measurements at the school tailor's who will make our uniforms, that is perfect for us.
I secretly hoped that I could wear pants as I hated skirts. They were uncomfortable and whenever the wind blew, you had to clutch your skirt and hold it to your legs...(My readers you probably know why...
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If I do have to wear it I shall wear a long skirt, since it is more decent by my standard though it may be restrictive.

Stefaan brought me to the office where the clerk asked us to wait until the principal who wanted us to see him had finished his meeting.
Why did the principal want to meet me ? I asked Stefaan who shrugged and told me that he was just asked to bring me here and wasn't given a reason but it must be important.
I fidgeted with my dark blue velvet jacket that had long sleeves that were slightly frilly at the end and wider at the end too. It had a hood which I kept up as soon as I entered the building .
I was wearing a long sleeved shirt underneath my zipped up jacket . I wore black slimboot jeans and my favourite boots that was a gift from my grandmother.
No matter what happened as I grew up, the boots would always fit and when I was little my grandmother said it was magic.
She gifted me her whole wardrobe of when she was a teenager and sewed so many clothes for me and all the clothes that I wore today came from there. My mother didn't approve of me wearing my grandmother's things, exspecially after she died being attacked by some wild beast in her home that was in the middle of the forest.

It was five years ago and the attack happened after my mom fought with my grandmother and left with us. I cried and screamed not to go because I felt a foreboding presence outside the house all day.
My grandmother's and mother's fight was so intense and terrible that my mother shouted that Grandma Eve, my mother's mother was not her mother anymore.
My grandmother started crying but she screamed that it was fine and that mom was no longer her family only I could come back here and that I am her heir and she had already done all the paperwork to ensure that no one could take away my property.
That's when I was horrified. That huge fight was because of property??
I always knew that people fought because of the petty thing called money and wealth and property but never did I think that it would happen to my family.
Before I had to go back home my grandmother gave me a chest and said be strong and when she turned into a star she would watch over me forever and all I had to do was close my eyes and think of her and know that she loved me whenever I felt lonely.
It was almost as if she knew what was going to happen after all she could see the future and told me that my father was lying and cheating my mother. He loves someone else and is having an affair with that person and only married my mother for her property and she told me not to give my property to anyone no matter what, she made me promise that and she smiled as I promised her with my childish voice that could barely say words properly. She said she believed me.
What she foresaw started becoming true on the day we left her alone...
Greg my dad, asked my mother about the property the first thing when we came home.
When she told him that she couldn't get her mother to have her the property , Greg became so furious that his face was red..
Lucy got scared and started crying.. Greg looked at Lucy and his eyes were filled with rage and hatred. He was a monster. He came towards Lucy and I knew that he was going to hurt her. I ran towards her trying to pull her towards the stairs but she wouldn't budge. Then it was too late he took his whip. The one I knew he would someday use on my mother after he got tired of caning her when he was drunk and she did something wrong according to him.
He used to do that when Lucy and I was asleep but I was always there crouching near the stairs and crying as I saw my mother in pain. He always hit her on places that people wouldn't be able to see and she would silently endure hoping that one day her love would make him change.
Once I told her to leave him but she slapped my face instead.

I used my body as a shield for Lucy and tried to calm her down . I got her to run but before I could escape, Greg pulled my hair and threw me to the ground and I hit my head, which started to bleed where there was a gash.
He used the whip on my back , beating me as I screamed until I was bloody all over and there were big lines in my skin , most where flesh was revealed and on one side even bone. Somewhere in the lightning flashes of pain I realized that my mother was crying and begging for Greg to stop but all he did was roar at her and whip her hand that was holding onto his legs, restricting his movement towards where I was writhing in agony and the pain was making me have spasms. I slowly felt myself losing too much blood and knew that I was dying. Outside it started raining and the wind howled. It slowly turned into a storm.
I felt a bright light in front of my vision . I was standing in the living room and I saw a body lying down on the ground motionless. I heard someone screaming. Greg was screaming at my mother that she was useless and that he hated her. I realized that the still pale body was mine...
I saw a figure coming towards me qnd it was Grandma Eve. She said to me " Evangeline, its not your time and sadly it never shall be... for it is Death's wish. She blew Greg out of the house and locked the door. She healed my mom and my body. She turned to me sadly and said that I should never lose my truly noble heart of gold and conscience...
She said that she is sad that her power is not stong enough to make the scars disappear in her spirit form. She told me she loved me and goodbye. She vanished and I was pulled towards my scarred body but I screamed for her not to leave me.
I woke up in the morning and saw my mom crying...
When I asked why?? She said that my father left. I told her to divorce my father and never let him come near her again...
She started crying and I told her that I will go to the police if she didn't...
I left her alone and changed. I saw my scars.. I laughed maniacally when I saw them. All were on my back and on my arms where no one would see if I wore long sleeves and some were on my leg so I had to wear long pants too.
Soon, my mother divorced Greg but Lucy had been brainwashed by his girlfriend and lover.. who promised that if Lucy came and stayed with her, she would give Lucy all that she wanted and make her look like a pretty doll, so every summer, Lucy stayed with them,seeming to have forgotten what happened...
The soon to be new Mrs. Greg tried that on me but I told her that I don't like useless stuff and that she reminded me off a puddle on a completely flat surfaced road...
When she asked me what I meant
And I told her that was how shallow she was . When she looked confused I told her I wanted to play catch with her face and a fundamental ingredient in building a house that was rectangular , as in throw a brick in her face.
My mother started laughing behind me...
The girl's face turned red with embarrasment.
I smirked and walked out of the court.
Greg looked at us and growled. I ran to him and said "Daddy can you kneel down" very innocently like I used to every morning when before he went to work , and I slapped his face" That's for what you did to Grandma", I said although I wanted to say that it was for Mommy and his eyes widened in shock. He said that she was attacked by a wild animal, and I snarled and told him that it was a wolf that attacked her..