Darkness Approached

Chapter 2 - Pain&Betrayal

Ravenna's POV

My life is like living in hell.

My parents always blamed me for things I did not do. My siblings tricked me and used me. They bullied me because I was easy to be bullied. They did something bad and blamed me. My parents assumed I was the one doing it. They blamed me for it. They don't believe it even when I explained to them. They just never listened.

When one of the family member did something wrong but wasn't me, my parents would believed that it was me and scold me for doing those things. Any jobs they would demand me to do. I got punished for things that I did not do. My parents never cared about me.

I was beaten in a dark room. Chained up, got beaten with a lash. Whipping like crazy. Tears building up, rolling down, my heart was shattered, burned down into dust. I had no heart. I am heartless. I don't have a blacken heart, I am just heartless. I called myself that way so I don't feel pain.

Yet the physical pain couldn't stop. I was slowly losing to the darkness. Blood was flowing down, scars were everywhere. If I could do anything right now, I would kill myself. But I can't. I will have my revenge before I die. Before I could do anything, my body was too weak and fell into darkness.

Flashback

I was 11 years old. I had a best friend called Lindy. We used to go for recess together, eat together, and study together. She is kind and caring. I was happy that I had such best friend by my side. One day, I met a new friend and we started to become good friend. Her name was Vivian.

Vivian and I started to go for recess together, and talked together most of the time. Until one day when I realised that she used me. She didn't care about me as much out of the sudden. There was one day Lindy promised that she will accompany me to meet a teacher during recess.

What happened was that when the bell rang, Vivian held Lindy's hand and brought her out of the room. She left me, forced by Vivian. I thought that Lindy didn't like me being her friend, but I knew she would never do that, and she is one of a kind. She wasn't a person who would do bad things to anyone, especially her best friend, which is me.

I became alone as Vivian started hanging out with Lindy for most of the time. When I wanted to talk to Lindy, Vivian always took her from me and didn't let me talk with her. It felt like she was trying to take my best friend away from me.

When I used to see Vivian as my best friend, I trusted her and voted her to be the class monitor. But now, she was abusing her power and controlled the classmates in every possible ways. She wasn't bothering about the discipline, but controlling their mind.

She used me. Once she became class monitor, she no longer cared about me and she abandoned me. There was an insane teacher that gave homework like crazy and spelling test everyday. Homework that she gave had to be handed in the next day.

I worked on my homework until late night, 12 midnight, or even 2 in the morning. It wasn't just that, Vivian, she made traps and tricked me. She only wanted to see me suffer. In a group work, she always gave me the hardest work and gave me only limited time to complete while she gave herself the easiest task.

When there is an important group discussion, Vivian did not want me to join, she hid it from me. She wanted the teachers to blame me for not knowing. Thankfully, Lindy told me and she helped me. Without Lindy's help, I would've been worse.

Not long later, I had another best friend called Janice. She's nice and kind actually. She too hates Vivian. Furthermore, Vivian had tried to break the friendship between Janice and I. However, she did not succeed as Janice knew me and I knew her. We understood each other, that's the reason our friendship was as strong as no one could break it.

Meanwhile, my family never cared. They only gave me more pain. They blamed me for everything bad that happened.

Back to reality

The pain woke me up. I could feel the anger inside of me, for over years. The betrayal of friend, I don't trust anyone ever since she betrayed me. I grew to be independent, and darker as the demon grew stronger inside of me. I would get my revenge.

Darveo's POV

I am an orphan. They said I was a mistake. They left me and I grew up in an orphanage. A couple adopted me and took care of me when I was at the age of 10 years old. They treated me well. Even though there were bullies in school, calling me names, I never paid any attention to them.

I like being alone and I don't feel lonely. My so-called parents taught me how to take care of myself. I cared about myself more than the others. I don't have much friends. I often felt that I don't belong anywhere. I like running and walking in nature. It made me relax. It made me feel calm.

I usually brought myself into my music world, wearing headphones while walking in nature. I lived in my own world. I would exercise to keep myself fit. I hid feelings from people around. I didn't want anyone to worry about me. The pain hid beneath a castle I built for myself.

I learned to always be strong and independent, never showed anyone your weakness, is the only way to survive in this world. My life seemed simple, but is that so? It did not matter as long as I am alone. I am strong as long as I am alone, that's what I thought.