Loveless♣

Flashback

8 years ago.
Forte Town,
Connecticut.

"Isabella,cutting your hair is not an option," Aunt Ignacia said sharply as her nails dug into Bella's head.

Bella bit her tongue to prevent the stream of curses from flowing out.

The last time she'd cussed at her Aunt,she'd received a hard slap to the cheek.
So,she simply kept her mouth shut as her aunt plaited her thick honey coloured hair into two large French plaits.

Her hair was waist length already,she thought with an eye roll, why on earth did her aunt want her to keep it that way?
She was no fucking Rapunzel.

She was seated on the floor of the living room,while her aunt was behind her on the sofa,gathering and twisting her hair.

Some cartoons were tumbling and singing on the television.
Bella rolled her eyes again.

The way her aunt insisted on plaiting her hair and making her watch cartoons was absurd.It was almost as though the woman was trying to keep her a child,when she was so clearly not one.
For chrissakes,she was fourteen already, and a fully grown woman at that.

People remarked about how well she'd turned out,and she'd had numerous advances from men who were much older than her.
She was even bigger than her Aunt Ignacia,and she could tell that it bothered the woman.
She was harsher to Bella, made her work harder and downright degraded her in public and in private.
Almost as though she thought that by treating Bella badly,Bella would never muster up the courage to disrespect her.