I sat under the willow tree pulling out the only photo I had of my mother, she was laughing, she was so happy.
It was taken less than twenty four hours before she killed herself…
My mother was beautiful but of course, but I got none of her features at all, she was pale and blond, nothing like me, I have black hair, olive skin but my eyes are what give me away as being different, they change colour, sometimes they are green sometimes blue and even sometimes white or black. My family haven’t noticed… yet. But sometimes other people notice, so I wear my contacts most of the time.
I have no idea who my father is I have never met him and my adopted family won’t tell me anything, whenever I bring it up they say, “Never talk about him, he is never to be talked about again”, they look at each other, and change the subject.
My name is Eli. I was adopted at the age of two, by a family, they were nice to me at first but then as time went on they used me as their slave. At night they locked me in my room with a chain and padlock, even though I beg them to let them out because I find it stifling to sleep in a room with no flowing air.
This is my general day:
AM
6:00 I wake up, I have a alarm so that the others don’t have to wake me up
6-6:30 is my time to eat the food they have shoved under the door and to get myself presentable
7:00 Sharp I have to do all the chores, feed the pigs, collect the eggs and sweep the floor of my room because I was only allowed in my bedroom and outside.
8:00 Home school starts for 6 hours with no food in-between. If I do something wrong my adopted mother gets her pen knife and runs it along the length of my arm lightly at first but as time goes on, she digs it in farther and farther into my arm. Math is the hardest subject I just can’t do it, but as she gets more and frustrated with me she pushes the knife. I try my hardest to understand, but it’s just so confusing. The only subject im good at is Art I can draw things and they look very realistic.
2:00 I get a half hour break, I usually go outside and draw. There is a massive fence around the whole property and I’m not aloud out of it. How I long to go out there and see the outside world. Once my adopted mother, she makes me call her mother, but think of her as a raven, caught me trying to climb over the fence. She looked at me eyes narrowing and turned around and started walking calmly towards the barn, I tried to jump down but realised that my foot was stuck in the wire, I glanced back over to the barn The Raven had gotten her whip out, a long leather thing meant for the horses and cattle. She started walking calmly towards me, I started shaking, my whole body quivering in fear. As she got closer she brought the whip over her shoulder and flipped the tasselled end towards me hitting the fence just above my head making it rattle
“if you don’t come down right now, I wont miss next time” she called to me
“ I-I-I can’t” my voice shook “ I-I’m stuck”
“Rubbish” she called back.
The whip sailed over her shoulder hitting me on the back of my calf, It sliced straight through the skin, like a knife through butter. I screamed out in anguish
“I’m stuck I’m stuck” I screamed at her
“You lying brat” she screamed back “get down here now!”
She flicked her wrist and the whip flew over her head hitting me from the top of my right shoulder blade then diagonly down to bottom left of my back just above my hip. I screamed and let go of the fence, I fell backwards ripping my foot out of the wire, as I fell I put my foot down but couldent land on both feet. My ankle cracked, I screamed and blacked out.
2:30 It's more chores. Make dinner, feed all the animals, put them in the barn. that kind of thing.
5:00 I have to wash all the clothes. I swear that Raven deliberatly makes them as dirty as possible, so I sit there for hours trying to clean all the stains off the clothes.
7:00 I have to serve dinner, take a tiny bit for myself and go back to my room, Raven follows me to make sure I havent taken too much food and to lock the door behind me.
That is what my day goes like.
But today. Today is different...
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Forced To Kill (On Hold For A While)
FantasíaFour hours after Eli was born his mother killed herself and his father disappeared, he lives with an abusive adopted family until one day his life changes forever when he's told he's a Witch...
