The Girl Who Walked Away

3 Months Ago...

Ruby sat on her bed, swaying her feet this way and that. Her heart was pounding against her chest, and she was finding it hard to breath.

When her step-father was around, Ruby's step-mother wouldn't lay a finger on the girl.

But when he wasn't around... That is what Ruby feared the most.

Whenever her step-father's back was turned, the mother would whisper horrid things to Ruby.

"I'll give you pain."
"I'll make you suffer."
"I'll beat you until your legs can't support you any longer."
"I'll torture you until you break."

But of course, her step-father didn't know about that. He didn't know that his own wife was threatening poor Ruby.

And today, the step-father wasn't home. He left for work-related reasons earlier that day, and said that he wouldn't be coming back for a few days.

That meant, the mother could do anything she wanted to Ruby, and no one would know a thing.

Ruby also had a step-brother. He was two years older than her, and was the legitimate child of her step-parents, unlike her. He did the same thing as the mother.

Ruby couldn't take the silence. She started hyperventilating, so much that she almost passed out right then and there.

That was, until she heard the floorboards outside her room creak.

Her head shot straight up, her eyes focused on the wooden door.

Her heart was racing, her mind going blank. What's going to happen? She didn't know. She was terrified. She was petrified. She thought that her life would end today.

Ruby watched as the handle to her room twisted, and the door was pushed open.

In came her brother, with no mother in sight.

Ruby shook from the fear of what he could do to her.

"Hey, Ruby..." He said, walking close to her. Ruby shifted her position on the bed, trying to stay as far away from the boy as possible.

"Hey now, don't move away... Come here," He grabbed her by the neck and slammed her against the wall.

Ruby struggled against his hands, trying to get free. Tears started to roll down her cheeks, her life flashing before her. Is this what death felt like...? No... She didn't want to die yet...

"Let... Let me go... P-please..." Ruby struggled more, fighting desperately for her life.

"Dear Ruby, the fun has only just began," He smiled.

She couldn't handle it. She'd had enough.

Without thinking, she reached into her sweater pocket and pulled out the slender pair of scissors she always carried around with her. She had promised herself she would only use them in case of an emergency. And this was one big emergency.

It was a life or death situation, and she didn't want to die, so she did the only thing she could think of.

Ruby held the scissors under her brothers neck, making sure they made contact with the skin.

"Let... Me... Go!!" She screamed, throwing her brother off-focus and pushing him off of her.

She quickly stood up and backed away until her back was touching the door.

She was still crying, pointing her scissors at her brother, shaking uncontrollably.

He got up, wiped himself off, and headed towards the shaking girl.

But she wasn't going to back down. All those times he'd harrased her, now it was his time to pay.

Ruby wiped all emotion off her face and started to walk towards her brother. He looked surprised. He didn't expect this.

She smiled. "Oh, my dear brother... Oh, how I loath you..." She gathered up all her remaining strength and slammed into him.

She felt something wet at her hands, and heard it drip onto the floor. She heard the frantic coughing of her brother, of him struggling to breath.

Ruby pulled out the scissors from his neck, and backed away.

He stared at her, eyes wide. She did the same. They were both shocked. This was not normal.

"You... Monster..." Her brother breathed out.

Ruby glanced into the mirror across the room, and saw that she was smiling. But not just a normal smile. She was smiling like a maniac.

She smacked herself across the face. "Get a hold of yourself, Ruby," She mumbled, before heading out her room door, leaving her dying brother behind.

"Hey, mom?"
"What do you want, freak? Can't you see I'm bus-" She was cut off by a pair of slender scissors getting jammed inside her neck.

Her eyes widened in terror as she saw Ruby walk in front of her, still smiling sadistically.
"Enjoy yourself, mother." Was what Ruby said.
"You...goddamn..fr...." The woman dropped onto the ground before she could finish.

Ruby stared. She just stared.

What had she done...?

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Ruby dragged first her brother's body, then her mother's, into the cold and damp basement. No one ever went down there, so it was the perfect place to hide corpses.

Now she just had to think of what she would tell her father.

They went out for a trip.
The left because they didn't like it here anymore.
They got kidnapped.
They disappeared in the middle of the night, and Ruby hadn't seen them since. Yeah, that was a good one.

She dragged the bodies into a corner, laying them down next to each other.
"Ladies and gentlemen... Today, you witnessed the murder of Janice Withermore, and Jake Withermore, who were slaughtered by Ruby Withermore, their adopted daughter and sister..." She mumbled to herself.

At last, she stepped back to look at what she had done. The dim basement light made it impossible to see the bodies, and the smell could be blamed on rats.

Even though she was a freak, Ruby sure did know how to hide corpses...

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She sat on her bed, and cried. Cried, screamed, threw everything everywhere. She was a monster. She was a murderer. She killed someone. Two people.

How... Why?! Why did it come to this...?

"Please, God, oh please... Help me..." She sobbed.