One-Shots

DNA

Inspired by the song
DNA by Lia Marie Johnson

Have you guys ever heard of it?
Check it out on youtube, it's pretty good if I may say so myself. ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪

This story is exactly 600 words. I got inspired by apandemonium 's short stories.

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Even now, every time midnight falls, I always remember......

To me as a child, my room was my only castle. It didn't matter what scary things the outside has. It didn't matter how I was bullied by my classmates.

As soon as I stepped into my room, I feel as though I would be protected. This precious place that belonged only to me. The most amazing thing in that room was the blanket. The thick and warm blanket, the blanket that shined.

It was as though when I was in the blanket, anything evil would kept outside. There was a very concrete feeling of safety.

When the sun's gaze is out, everything seem so normal, including her. Light brown hair, it was as if she was a princess from one of those stories my daddy told me when we were driving through the town, a princess guiding the prince with her long hair. Every time the sunlight hits her brown hair, it becomes gold. I loved her hair, I loved mine too, it was like seeing my future self when I look at her.

When I told daddy that I want to be like her, he told me that I shouldn't. I don't understand! She drinks expensive-looking drinks and wears make-up and jewelries. She's really like the princess I would want to be, except I don't want to smoke. It's gross. Maybe the thick ones are much better than those cheap-looking ones.

Daddy was my only prince charming and he always treat me like a princess. But I wasn't the only princess in his life.

But her, who seemed like a bright princess by the sunlight, was surrounded by darkness when the midnight falls. I hated to see the princess become like the monster so I run and hide under my thick blanket. It was like the princess I thought she was, was  an ethereal mirage. So scary, so scary.

If I don't behave and stay still inside that warm blanket, even a little, I would feel like the monster is going to take me away. I was always trying so hard to be careful, not to let any part of my body stick out outside my blanket because in that room, when the lights were off, the room that was still protecting me suddenly became a very scary world. The screams behind the doors, the sound of something being broken, the blue and red lights in the window. SO SCARY.

It was a monster in a princess' body. It has a unique sound in my ears but not when it's dark.

Daddy said she lives in our home with a big shock in his eyes when I finally asked why is she here. I don't get him. I wouldn't know because she was barely home when the sun's out.

When I graduated grade school, daddy said he can't come so let mommy come. Who's mommy?

Oh...

We're related?
What? But I don't want her there. She's always high, smoking and have no manners what so ever. I don't want to be laughed at when I'm already being bullied.

I didn't attend the graduation. A week later, she died of overdose. I couldn't care less even if she was my mother. She was no more than just a mere ethereal mirage when I was naive. She's gone. I can finally start a new life with only me and my dad... but...

Even now, every time midnight falls, I still hear the screams, and broken cans of beer outside my door. I remember her.

Nothing really change...