Moonlight // XXXTENTACION Fanfiction

Chapter 17 - Bellyache

::Anah's POV::

Tori and I used to be close before Carlos recreated me as 'Anah'. Now that I was myself again, I wondered if Tori and I could go back to being friends...

"Before we go in, I have to ask... Anah what did you do?" Tori broke me out of my thoughts.

"What do you mean, Tori?" I said curiously as I faced her.

"I mean you're you again. And don't get me wrong, I love that but Carlos is livid about it."

"He is upset?"

"More than upset," Tori said worriedly. "I..." she closed the space between us and lowered her voice to a mouselike whisper. "I think he's gonna send you to the cage."

"The cage? What did I do? Did he say why?" It was obvious I was scared from the shakiness in my voice. The only time Carlos sent me to the cage is for fight night, not as punishment.

"I don't know that's why I'm asking you!" Tori's panicked whisper didn't make me feel any better. "Wait, I overheard him say something about pills... the wrong pills... look I don't know. He just told me to find you and if I didn't come back within 10 minutes, both of us will definitely be confined for God knows how long. Just go see what he wants." She opened the door to his office and he stood, back turned to us.

"Is that you, Tori?" he said without turning around.

"Yes." She dropped her gaze to the ground and figitted with her thumbs.

"Do you have Anah?"

"Yes."

He turned around and his face was red. Suppressed anger was obvious which told me something was very wrong. That maybe I did something very wrong.

"That's all, Tori. You're free to go." He said with his eyes fixed on me. She gave a small nod and left me with Carlos. He didn't say anything for about 30 seconds, instead, he just looked at me, almost as if he were trying to find the right thing to say. My anxiety rose at least 500%.

"Is something wrong?" I said breaking the silence.

"Yes." He said through gritted teeth. "Did you take the pills that were right here?" He asked as he stepped out of the way, revealing a tiny clear cup. And I did. I was so angry at Andy and Jahseh earlier, I couldn't think straight. I asked Carlos for a dose, but he said no because it was too early. My anger couldn't take no for an answer, so I came into his office and gulped down the first pills I saw. After feeling my anger literally evaporate by the second, I realized they weren't mine. My pills are something like steroids, but the pills I'd taken were something like tranquilizers. They brought me back to my original mind frame, the sweet girl that didn't bother anybody. Before now, I hadn't realized how much of a bitch I'd been. Well, I knew I was an awful person, but I didn't mind it. Now that the affects of the pills Carlos usually gave me were out of my system, I was mortified at the monster he made me into.

"Yes. I thought they were mine." I answered softly. He slammed his hand on the desk, which almost made me jump out of my skin.

"Damnit, Anah! I told you no when you asked me, so who the hell do you think you are coming into MY office and taking the first set of pills you see in sight?!" He screamed at me. I'd never seen Carlos go off like this, so it scared me to the point where I couldn't answer.

I struggled for words until one of his actions spoke for itself. He basically lunged at me with his hand drawn backwards and, once he was in range, he hit me.

I don't know which was worse: the sting of his heavy hand, or cutting my knee on a sharp edge on the way to the ground. After opening my eyes, I saw blood covering my entire lower leg, even with some on my shoes. I let out a little scream as I panicked at the sight of all that blood. Before I could stand on my own, Carlos picked me up by my hair and almost drug me out of the room.

It was mid day, so lots of people were out in the main area, which meant I was bound to be seen. Carlos made sure to get attention by kicking the door open. The bang from the door hitting the wall startled a bunch of kids which made them turn their heads to see what caused the commotion, only to see me getting pulled around by Carlos' fist in my hair. I didn't make eye contact with anyone, this was embarrassing enough, and it felt like billions of eyes were on me. Like the world was watching. I know what most of them must've been thinking. 'Queen Bitch gets a taste of her own medicine.'

He opened the heavy door to The Cage room, except he didn't take me over to the fighting area, rather to the isolation area, where he kept the ones that did something wrong. Almost like animals in time out, and he kept them there for days, weeks, or in Jahseh's case, months at a time.

We stopped in front of an empty cage, where he took some keys from his pocket, undid the lock and threw me in.

"Think about this next time you wanna put your hands on things that aren't yours." Carlos said bitterly as he shut the entrance and latched the look before he walked away. By this point, my anxiety was at 1000 and the kids that were already in the cage staring at me didn't help. Most of them I recognized, not because we were friends, but because Carlos put us up against each other on fight nights.

I'm pretty sure most of them had heard out me getting laid out by Andromeda. And now they watched me get flung around by Carlos. Boy, that must've been amusing. I tried not to focus on all the attention, because it wasn't the kind of attention that I, Anomaly, liked. It wasn't even the kind of attention Anah would like. Thinking of all the horrible things I'd done made me feel sick to my stomach. I could've thrown up right there.

"Are you new?" A voice off to the left asked. I turned to see who it was, and it was a face I didn't recognize. It was a young boy with curly hair, hispanic looking. But before I could answer, another voice spoke.

"No, this is the bitch I told you about. Remember, the one that broke my nose? Yea, Carlos said I would never leave this god forsaken cage until I defeated her and from what I can see now, I'll finally be getting out soon. Real soon." It was Jasmine, public enemy number 1. She was worse than I was as Anah, and not even I knew how that was possible. From the time Carlos started doping me up on pills, he gave her the same kind, and once we both started showing side effects of the pills working, he made us fight. Winner went free, loser went to the cage. I beat her every time and now that I wasn't a raging she devil, I didn't want to fight, but Jasmine saw this as her opportunity.

A bunch of the other kids around me starting joining in on how much fun it was to see me get publicly degraded. They talked about me like I wasn't even there. I closed my eyes tightly, wishing I could be invisible. Wishing I could be back at home with mommy and daddy and Alex and Alison. I wondered if they were still looking for or if they'd given up on finding me.

For the first time in over a year, I felt broken, and a single tear crept down my cheek.

-| This whole 'Anah' story line I've got coming soon is heart breaking, yet angering, and drama filled. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter 😊 excuse any mistakes anddddd don't forget to vote, comment, all that good stuff. Dm me if any parts confuse you and I'll clear it up. <3 |-