The Last Night

First Meeting

Chapter One

"The last night I was happy, was the night before she died..."

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"How dare you lie to me, Ame!" A hand slapped across my face.

"I'm not lying! I didn't do a thing! I don't even know what I did!" I yelled, though it wouldn't be of any use anyways.

"I lost my job because of you!" My stepmother, Angie, yelled. She punched me in the gut and I fell to the floor.

"How is that my fault?! They fired you because you suck at what you do! Go find another job!"

"How dare you talk back to me!" Angie kicked me in the stomach.

I coughed out some blood.

"You deserve this punishment, you piece of trash." She glared at me coldly then walked to the kitchen.

Oh no... she's gonna do it again... I don't have enough energy to fight back this time...

Angie grabbed a knife and walked toward me menacingly. She put the knife to my arm and slit it about five times when my brother walked through the door. I was losing blood and consciousness fast.

"Mom! What are you doing?!" My older brother yelled. He ran to me, "Ame! Are you okay?!" He looked frantic.

"Luke..." The last thing I saw was my brother's face when I blacked out.

"Ame!"

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I woke up in my bed with bandages all over me. My vision was blurry

I could make out a figure above me. "Ame? Are you awake?" The figure said.

"Luke?" I said.

"Yeah?"

"How long have I been asleep?"

"Two days."

Two days. Wait. Two days?!

"Two days?!" I yelled.

"Yup." Luke said, popping the P.

"Dad'll kill me for missing school!"

"Don't worry about it. I got all the work you missed from class." He said passing the stack of papers to me.

"Thanks, Luke. You're the best brother ever." I smiled at him.

"Well, technically stepbrother, but come here you." He grinned at me and hugged me.

He froze for a second, pulled away and stared at me.

"Luke? What's wrong? What happened?" I waved a hand in fron of his face.

After a few seconds he yelled, "You're smiling!" He had this shocked look on his face.

"Yeah, I know."

"Yay! Ame's smiling!" He grinned. "Well, I'll let you work on your homework now. Bye!" Then he left.

I rarely smile anymore so I guess this is a big thing for him. Ever since my mom died of cancer and my 'oh so beloved' father married the evil queen, Angie, smiling is pretty hard. The only person I smile to his my stepbrother, Luke. He's the only one who care about me in this family even though he's not really related to me. In front of other people I would never smile.

Even my little sister, Sora, has been brainwashed by the witch to hate me and she's blood related to me. For some reason, Luke is the only one who ended up with an American name whereas Sora and I have Japanese names.