Chapter 2: The inhabitants of the dark

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You were thinking so intensely about your friend that you didn't even notice your mom shouting at you to get up and head to school.
You quickly shot your eyes up to her and stared,not even listening to what she was blabbering about.

"(Y/n) you better get out of this stupid closet and get ready for school now."

She said with a oh so annoyed voice        ,slightly tapping her foot.
The way she was acting just irritated you,she didn't know what hell school was,nor she cared about you.She never really did.

"No." You just looked at her ,not moving ,not even daring to breathe.You knew what was coming if you stood up against her,but hey why not giving it a try?
"I don't want t-" you were interrupted by a snapping sound,and a stingy feeling crawling up to your cheek.

"I said get up. Now."

It took you a while before you realized what just happened.

She just slapped you.

Just like that.

You slowly brought your hand up to your cheek,rubbing it softly while getting up and staring blankly at the ground.
She slapped you again.
What a great way to start the first day of school.

~Time skip~
You quickly dressed,brushed your teeth and washed your face,you didn't want your mom to hurt you again,not at all.
You just stared at yourself in the mirror while your mom left home to go to work
"Get ready to leave soon, (y/n).You are already late and I have no intention to bring you to school today." Your mom said as she was about to close the door.
"What a disappointment for this family.." She whispered to herself enough for you to hear, as you then listened to the door being roughly closed.
"Finally she is gone.." you told yourself.

You relaxed,closed your eyes and just stood there in front of the mirror of the bathroom ,trying to find the strength to go to school .
Just as you closed your eyes ,silently  a dark silhouette appeared,creeping up slowly on the mirror, till a pair of eyes and a huge smile came close to you, smiling widely and staring right into you.
Was it real?Well you had your eyes closed,but somehow you sensed that that creature was in truth there,and that if you opened your eyes you would have been greeted with a not so pleasant surprise.

You breathed in.

"Not now" you said,hoping it would understand, still with eyes shut .That creature,it was one of the things you and only you could see.
You called these monsters " inhabitants of the dark ",for they were always there, watching your every movement and following you everywhere you went.

Always lurking in the dark.

But they couldn't leave your house.They never even tried to.
Or at least so you thought.
They first started appearing when your dad died,in a tragical incident :you were so young and oh so broken you stopped speaking to anyone. Nobody was there for you ,not even your own mother,and it's not like anyone would care.
You were so desperate for a friend,  for someone that would listen and help you in any way possible:
you were to the edge of going crazy that those creatures, those things started appearing slowly in your house.
You weren't sure whether your mind created them or they really existed, you just knew that they would stay in the dark and slowly whisper things to you,sometimes relieving you,other times telling dark secrets that would hunt you for nights.
Maybe that's when your mother started changing too,maybe that's when she also lost hope and stopped believing in a better, bright future.

Maybe that's when she stopped loving you.

You've been seeing those beasts for years,you could say you grew used to them...yet they will still scare you sometimes.
You remember when at young age they used to pop out of corners only to freak you out and give you the same endless nightmares for even weeks

"I wish i could go back to when i was innocent." You thought "I wish I could go back to when I had a family, someone that truly loved me..."

You snapped out of your thoughts as you turned around quickly and walked to your room.
You lived in a small apartment with your mother and your pet,a cat that you found when you were little on a street close to your elementary school ,so the distance from room to room wasn't much.

You were just about to leave when something,something that you never expect would happen,would have left a mark on you forever

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