Eternally Yours {Kaoru Hitachiin} [OHSHC]✔️

23 | Fight to survive: the story of Arabella Hashimoto

⚠TRIGGER WARNING⚠: This chapter contains depression and a suicide attempt. If you can't take those sort of things, don't read this chapter!

Chapter 23 | Fight to survive: the story of Arabella Hashimoto

Eight years ago

January 29th, 2008
~Third Person POV~

The rain poured down with no mercy upon the little girl and her family.

The little girl's mother held her and her younger brother's hands while gripping the umbrella tightly.

It had been a month since his passing. But to the little girl, it felt like it was only yesterday.

She was close to her father, closer than she was to her mother. They just had a better connection.

The little girl had loved her father up to the bitter end, up until he died.

On December 29th, 2007, Hiro Hashimoto, father of Arabella and Daniel Hashimoto, husband of Nina Hashimoto, died of cancer.

Arabella's entire family was devastated over the loss, none more than Arabella herself.

The rain poured down harder. The Hashimoto family was at the funeral, wishing that Hiro hadn't died, wishing that he'd never been diagnosed with cancer in the first place.

But all that didn't matter, it had happened anyway.

Too late to go back now.

It all started on that day--the day her father died--that day, Arabella's life took a turn for the worst.

The entire Hashimoto family grieved for months over Hiro's death; Arabella was sure they would never get over it.

But, that was before her mother met him.

One year later

Arabella's mother met Robert.

At first, Robert was just some guy her mother worked with; nothing important.

Then, out of nowhere, he asked Nina out on a date.

After a year of grieving over her late husband, she felt that it was time to get out there again, to try and find someone new.

So, she accepted and they went out.

Eventually, over time, it became a thing; they dated for three weeks before they became a couple.

Then, they were a couple for about seven months before Robert did something no one thought he would do--he proposed to Nina, he asked her to marry him.

To Arabella's shock, Nina said yes and agreed to marry Robert.

That's where things really took a turn for the worst.

After they were married, Robert began coming home either angry, drunk, or both. And, every time he did, he would beat Nina and Arabella. Some times senseless.