Experiment 05

🖤Chapter 16🖤

I bite the inside of my cheek harder on accident making me regain consciousness. I was zoning out on Cygnus, thinking about how to approach him. He was with his apprentices... if that's what you can call it. The girls kept trying to cling onto him and for some reason he was letting it happen. Where was this hateful Cygnus that despised all humans? Did he realise the power in human teenage hormones?

I walk straight up to Cygnus in the school hall and pull him by the arm to the side, away from all his "friends". I can't help but wonder, if maybe they were all aliens.

He frowns down at me with a slight disgusted look. I felt a tiny patch of hurt. "Oh cut the crap. Cielo told me the truth." I state looking around us.

"Told you what?" He asks shrugging innocently. Was he trying to play dumb or was he just plain stupid? I see him trying to get back to his group.

"Cygnus." I warn him. "We have to talk."

His eyes narrows at me as he takes me by the shoulders and pushes me into a nearby classroom.

"So you believe him and not me. " He whispers out loud, gesturing towards himself to emphasise his point.

"Why didn't you leave Earth, like go back to your home or something?" I ask him ignoring his rhetorical question.

"We can't go back." He says rolling his eyes. "It's a little complicated."

"What do you mean?" I ask him, frowning.

"Never mind, just... stay away from us, it'll be better for the both of us." His sudden mood change was drastic. I guess there's the old Cygnus I was looking for.

"Wait I have more-" He moves out the door, flat out ignoring me. "questions." I add and clear my throat.

What's his problem?

I walk out and see him with the girl from yesterday. When they see me he leans closer to her. She smirks as he whispers something in her ear, bending down into her neck. Probably that "we should get out of here and get a room".

Suddenly he grabs her around her throat and pushing her back against the locker, she smiled seductively.

He smashes his lips against hers, kissing her making a lot of unnecessary noise.

Get a damn room.

Guess he did indeed find out the pleasure behind teenage human girls.

That just sounds wrong.

I don't know why it hurt me as much as it did, seeing that happen, but it did. And the rest of the day I felt an odd achy feeling that wouldn't dissolve.

I walk away on the look out for Nova. I should maybe talk to her about this.

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Few days went by, school went on normally, I guess. Expect all the making out sessions with Cygnus and his little 'girlfriend' or whatever. This day hasn't been all too nice with me.

I walk into the house and look around. I got into big trouble for not greeting my parents this one time. I didn't want it happening again so I started looking for them.

But no one was here.

It's very quiet, a little too quiet for me. They should be here.

Suddenly my drunken father appears through the door, slumping against the wall. "YOU." He sneers at me.

Oh no.

He storms right towards me and grabs me roughly around my throat. "You s-shouldn't even b-be alive-ve."

His alcoholic breath hits me in the face and I want to gag. Eww.

"What happened?" I croak out. "Father please." I try to get out of his death grip. Sure my father is a drunken fool, he's never been this violent to me.

"Because you're the reason that my WIFE left me." He spits at me.

How is someone so drunk and strong at the same time?!

"Mom l-left?" I ask shocked still being held against the wall by my throat. Even though I didn't like my mother all that much, she kept my father happy and busy. And sometimes she gave us peace.

"Because of you!" He slurs over his words and pushes me to the side. Just as I was about to stand up and make a run for it, he punched me right in the face and I fall back down from the impact.

The warm liquid running down my face and metallic taste in my mouth tells me, it'll definitely leave a bruise.

Never has my father ever lifted his hand toward me.

This was the first.

I try to get up again, but he grabs my arms roughly and pushes me back down.

How is he so strong right now honestly?

I rub my cheek for two seconds trying to soothe the sizzling pain.

I kick him where the sun don't shine and bolt out the room. I could almost feel him nipping at my heels as I ran.

"Fuck you!" He shouts groaning in pain as I sprint toward my room.

Breathing heavily I lock my door and walk to my adjoined small white bathroom. I grab tissues and keep wiping my eyes as I kept on crying, even though I try not to. I graze over the purple area on my cheek and I flinch. I was scared he would come up to my room, but I heard his steps retreat to his room.

Why would he do this?
It wasn't my fault!
It's not that bad though... I can hide the mark and just...

I am going to have to leave this place now. I don't have a choice, do I?

Just then a figure appears behind me from the shadows and before I could say anything I was injected and the all too familiar cool feeling spread through my body and I go limp.

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