Down With The Border: A Shadow People Novel

Chapter 3: On the Streets

*******WARNING!!! This chapter has slight abuse and heavy swearing! It gets a little intense!*******

Viviana:

"All of my most important supporters, partners, and donors were there!" My father screamed at me as we drove home. His face was getting a deeper shade of red by the minute. He inched closer to me as he continued to shout, trying to intimidate me more and more. "Are you so fucking stubborn you can't keep your mouth shut for 5 fucking minutes?

Fuck this.

You know what, dad? 

I'm even more stubborn than you think.  

I immediately sat up straight, leaned forward, and got right back in his face. I decided right then and there that this asshole was not going to control me anymore. 

"You're fucking right I'm that stubborn!" I screamed in this man's face. This man who has tried to control my every move, my every thought, for the past three and a half years. I looked him in the eyes and let out all of my anger and hatred for him that I had been hiding. 

"What the actual fuck are you thinking? Expanding The Borders?" He looked taken aback that I had come on with this much force. 

"You have no right. No right! To keep the citizens locked away in this godforsaken city forever!" He tried to open his mouth but I wouldn't let him. I screamed over his feeble attempts to try to cut me off. 

"And what about the Shadow People? That fucking war happened 100 years ago and there hasn't been a problem since! There is no need to keep them out! " I was now shrieking with such force, I knew I wouldn't be able to talk correctly for the rest of the week. 

"The only reason you are doing this is because you're a power hungry, racist, son of a -" 

I fell back into the wall of the limo. 

Hard. 

I reached my hand to my check as tears filled my eyes. Although it wasn't from the pain. 

It was pure rage. 

My father had just slapped me. 

"Henry pull the car over." I barely heard him say it. 

I looked up as my father fixed himself. He was so fucking calm. He looked as if nothing happened. 

The car pulled over and Henry, my father's driver, got out and opened my door. 

I didn't move. 

I sat there, hand to my face, staring at the man who just hit me. 

"You see, Ana," He looked at me with cold, dead eyes. "It doesn't matter if the Shadow People are peaceful creatures. The reality is, people are afraid of them. I use this fear to keep myself in office and at the top of the food chain. And as long as I have anything to say about it, fayes, nymphs, werewolves, and every other species of freaks out there will continue to be the enemy." 

He stopped. 

We held eye contact for what seemed like hours. He closed his eyes. Took a deep breath. And said. 

"I won't be paying your tuition anymore. Get out of my car." 

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I was speechless. 

I walked along the side walk of the city. 

It was almost midnight. 

I was alone. 

I was furious. 

My fathers last words to me as he drove away played over and over in my mind. 

"Unless someone presents hard facts to the public that what I tell them isn't true, nothing will change. And since that won't ever happen. I have nothing to worry about."

I stopped in my tracks and let out a scream of frustration. 

Some other pedestrians gave me worried looks, but I paid no attention to them and kept walking. 

My head pounded and my heart ached. My thoughts were all over the place. 

 How could someone be so heinous?

It's going to take me hours to get home. 

How am I going to finish college? 

"Fuck!" I swore under my breath. I took off my heels a while ago and I just stepped in a puddle. Looking up, I realized that it had begun to rain. I hadn't noticed. 

I was so angry. 

I was angry at what my father was trying to do to the city. 

I was angry that he hit me. 

I was angry I was walking home in the rain. 

And I was furious that I had let him control me for so long. 

"Unless someone presents hard facts to the public that what I tell them isn't true, nothing will change. And since that won't ever happen. I have nothing to worry about."

His words were a chant in my mind.

"...hard facts..." 

Again.

"...won't ever happen..."

And again. 

 "I have nothing to worry about." 

I stopped. 

It was like a light went off in my head. 

I thought through my new idea over and over. I worked out all the complications that I could think of. 

I knew what I had to do. 

If the city needed hard facts to discredit my father.

Than I was going to be the one to give it to them. 

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*****A/N: Hey guys! Sorry not sorry for the kind of intense chapter! Had to create drama ya know? And you all got a small taste of what kinds of creatures the Shadow People are! I know its a lot and I haven't explained everything yet but please keep reading it gets explained soon!*****