Happy
Ok so this is a new story idea that has been brewing in my mind for a few weeks now. I just started watching Doctor Who so I only know what has happened in the show, as I don’t follow it on the outside. I will flesh this out, but it will not go in order, some of it will be flashbacks. This chapter is telling the whole story in case I don’t finish the story. I may decide to write a Doctor Who story with Holly in it, but that won’t be anytime soon. This chapter is a speech, and I want the emotions to be interpreted how a reader thinks that they might be.
“Is happiness something that is just given to us by some kind of God, or is happiness something that we have to work for? My name is Zooey Belikov, I’m 23 years old, and I’m finally happy. Ok so first things first, I’m not British or Scottish, sorry about that. Second, I’m going to tell you my story about moving on from the past. My parents are Rose and Dimitri Belikov, the guardians of the queen and her husband. This pretty much means that from the age of four, I was living at Saint Vladimir’s Academy. I did see my parents a lot, in fact they made a point to come and see me whenever the queen was visiting her children, so I would see them about once every two to three weeks.
On the day that I started at the academy, I met my best friend, a dhampir named Luke Ivashkov. I didn’t think anything of our friendship, in fact I was the weird one in that friendship. So Luke had a twin brother named Jai, and an older brother by two years, Beau. Luke, Jai, and I became inseparable from day one, with me being a lot closer to Luke than I was to Jai. I didn’t really have any girlfriends, and I was completely alright with that. I didn’t have any moroi friends, they all just thought that I was strange. So I had my two dhampir boys and their big brother, and that was about the extent of my socialising. I was eight when I found out that Luke and Jai’s parents were old friends of my parents, in fact their father was my mother’s ex-boyfriend. That is not something that we ever talked about though. It was also when I found out that Mr Ivashkov is very close to the queen, in fact they often refer to each other as “cousins”. So there I am, the daughter of Queen Vasilisa’s closest friend, trying to work out the world with my closest friends, the sons of her cousin. We lasted like this for the earliest parts of my life, up until I was about 14.
I was 14 when it first happened, and honestly, nine years later this is going to be one of the hardest things I will ever say, but I need to say it. This event happened from just after my 14th birthday, to about six months after my 15th, and it only stopped for one reason. I was 14 years old when I was raped for the first time. It was someone that I considered a close friend, and I never thought anything like this would happen to me, let alone this person be the one to do it. It happened up to four times a month, for just over a year and a half, and to this day, I don’t know why I never told anyone until the time that I did. The person that violated me would taunt me about it, never giving away to anyone else what he had been doing. He threatened me, and I was terrified. I was terrified of him, but also scared that no one would ever believe me, even if I did speak up.
I can vividly remember the day that I told someone. That someone was Luke, my best friend, and the younger brother of the man that had ruined me. To my immense surprise, Luke didn’t laugh, he didn’t call me a liar, and he didn’t scream or tell me that he never wanted to see me again. Luke listened and that was all I really needed from him. Like me, he didn’t know how to make it stop. We were both worried that it would just get worse if we told someone. That was when Luke came up with the idea to run away from the academy.
We waited until one of those open days that the school had started to have three years previously. Those were the days when, during the day, we would all go down to the local mall, making sure that we were all in school uniform, so they would know if we were one of their students. I had been saving money that my parents had been sending me for almost two years at that time, and Luke had been doing the same. This meant that between us we had a pretty decent amount of money to escape with. The first thing we did was go and buy new outfits, inconspicuous, so that we could get out of the mall without any of the guardians batting an eyelid. The fact that it was a cold day, meant that we could wear hoodies and look like completely normal humans. We then cashed out our accounts, so that we wouldn’t leave a paper trail. We then just walked out of the front door, no guardian looking twice at us.
