Before Sixteen

14 Sane?

14 SANE?

I'd lost hope. I'd stopped screaming. My whole world at that moment had come crashing down...

Until I heard something that sounded like metal collide with a thick surface.

Before my eyes, Uncle Harry fell to the ground next to where I laid and I saw Sebastian holding a frying pan, ready to hit again in case the first attempt didn't work.

Sebastian heaved a little sigh of relief before crouching down next to me. "Are y-you..." he stammered with pain in his eyes. I knew he felt my pain mere looking at me. Words could not describe how I felt.

I despised the pain I was feeling mentally, physically and emotionally.

Once again, I could see Sebastian saying something but I couldn't hear him. I didn't want to hear him.

Even when Sebastian had finally started crying, I couldn't say anything. There was nothing to tell him. I couldn't tell him I didn't feel pain when I did. I couldn't tell him everything would be fine when I felt like ending my life.

How I ended up in the bathroom, I don't know. I let the warm water wash over my body while I just stood in the bathtub like a statue. I wasn't sure I knew how to blink anymore.

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"So you tried to seduce my husband?!"

She sent another hot slap across my face before grabbing my hair.
"You evil witch, I'll kill you today!" she pulled me by the hair and pushed me leaving me to roll down the tiled stairs. It was painful but I was already numb.

I laid on the floor hoping the pain would stop at some point while aunt Thelma went into her bedroom and came out with a glass bottle which seemed to contain a liquid substance. If my memory had served correctly, that was the same bottle our chemistry teacher used to store acids in the chemistry lab.

She ran down the stairs while opening the bottle and murmuring inaudible curses at me but I didn't move. Maybe it would be easier if aunt Thelma ended my life. I saw no reason for my existence in this world anymore.

"Useless human being, I'll disfigure your face today" she said after she'd finally opened the bottle. I closed my eyes and hot tears streamed down.

I jolted up from where I was curled up when I heard the sound of glass shatter on the floor. Sebastian had knocked the bottle out of aunt Thelma's hands.

Little droplets of the acid had come in contact with the three of us. But I was affected most.

A tiny drop of it was painful. I could tell with the way my elbow and knee ached. It was worse than a bee sting and I knew if more had come in contact with my skin, it would have melted it.

It was only six in the morning after aunt Thelma had returned home and found her husband unconscious, she hit the hell out of Sebastian and I after she'd taken uncle Harry to the hospital.
Sebastian telling aunt Thelma that uncle Harry had sexually abused me didn't help matters. She only accused me of seducing her husband and Sebastian trying to kill him.

"You witch, I will kill you!" she screamed at me after she'd locked my brother outside so she could finally kill me.

She pulled my hair making me to stand on my feet. She grabbed my head and smashed it on the wall. "You're the reason my husband wants to divorce me!"

"Your mother has taken so much from me and you little bitch decided to take after her!" she smashed my head on the wall again. I didn't know which I should be worried about, my throbbing head or my bleeding nose and mouth.