Bruises

Chapter One New Beginning

        I run, run as fast as my tiny legs can take me towards the screaming that woke me up from my innocent dreams of opening presents underneath a huge pine tree covered in lights and ornaments,  with a huge angel woman placed at the top. Turning the corner of the hall something grabs my leg and I fall face first to the hard marble floor. Ignoring the metal taste in my mouth I get back up till a voice behind me stops me.

        "Wait..."

        I turn around suddenly to see my mother on the ground with bloodshot eyes and her night gown covered in blood.

        "What....what happened mommy?" I ask, walking towards her slowly.

        "Your...your father...he's hurt...I found him...on the ground covered in blood." She speaks  into her hands, " I told him....oh Melanie..I told him. But did he listen? No! He never listens now look what he's gotten himself into."

        She starts laughing suddenly but then it is replaced by her crying into her hands and sinking back onto the floor.

        I turn towards the door that I know my father is in, which is slightly open with little light coming through. I walk towards the door slowly and open it. When i first walk in everything looks like it always looks with everything in its proper place and extravagant jewelry on my mothers drawer. Until I walk further into the room and turn my head...there lying on the floor is my father lying in a pool of blood.

        I run towards him and kneel by his body, " Daddy...daddy are you awake?" I shove him multiple times but he stays still. Something wet drops on to my knew and i look down to see that its a tear. Soon more start coming and I  put my face into my fathers stomach.

        I don't know how long I lay there before I hear the door to my parents room creak open, i don't move and just lay still on my father's  tummy.

        " Oh Melanie, it's for the best. Now me and Bernice can be a happy family.....but there is one more thing we need to get rid of."

        I turn around slowly to see my mother and my older sister of one year standing by the door smiling in pity at me, she was always mothers favorite.

        "What?" I ask, not fully grasping what she is saying. But then i understand what she is means when she slowly pulls a knife from her back that i didn't notice when she was talking.

        I back away from them and closer to my father but suddenly stop when i hear grunting behind me. I turn around to find my father fully standing as if he was not on the floor covered in blood a while ago. I almost run to him to hug him when i stop dead in my tracks. His eyes don't look the same as before, there is no kindness in them.

        My father, mom, and sister slowly start walking towards me whispering my name, saying it louder each time, until they are fully screaming it until it hurts my delicate ears.

        "MELANIE, MELANIE!"

        I fall on the ground holding my ears ,telling them to stop but they wont. They just wont stop.....

      

          I feel a sharp sting on my cheek and open my eyes to find a blurry image of a lady wearing a white dress standing over me.

        "Awake yet...or should i do that again?" the lady saids with a smirk.

        I look around me and see that i am in a room fully covered in white, looking down i see that i am wearing a white hospital gown that seems to go to my knees and in a bed that is also covered in white.