Webs of Revenge

         Welcome to Sunset Academy for Girls. This might seem like a normal all-girls school on the outside, with the plaid skirts that have to be under or knee length, ribbon tied back hair, very expensive, and most importantly every single building on campus is named after famous women that have changed the world. Sounds typical right? Under this pretty viel, so much is going on that no one knows about except for us survivors. Where are my manners? My name is Klara Odette Milliton-Cortex, heiress to the Cortex and Milliton fortune, oldest of five sisters and current student at Sunset Academy for Girls. Ever since day one I was named heir of the Cortex and Milliton fortune, and that was my purpose. I had to keep the family image clean and perfect, I had to be careful with anything I did or said. My grades have to be straight A’s, I have joined all the extracurricular activities that I have time for, and I have to style my hair into a french braid. My mother Alice Milliton made it clear to me that I will have to be the next President of the Daughter of the American Revolution, be a part of at least one debutante ball, and that I will go to Sunset Academy for Girls. Most of the time I don’t understand why my mothers side of the family wanted to go to the Academy. Out of all the schools in the country we could’ve chosen from, they insisted on the Academy. My sisters all go to Evergreen Prep, all except for me. My roommate Caroline Kingsley just came home. Caroline has pretty blonde hair, emerald green eyes, and a great figure. She is a Secondary Heiress. The only reason she came to the Academy was because she always got in trouble with guys in almost all the schools in Maine, and Probably the Tri State area. “Klara? Did you see the pink dress I ironed yesterday?” I answered ,”No Caroline I haven’t, do you have another date?”  “Yes, and that's the reason why I need it. I swear I saw it in the closet the other day. Can I come in? Maybe I put it in your closet!” “Come in, just don’t bother me too much! I have midterms in a week!” I sighed, midterms were coming, and that meant I would go home for break. After that comes my sixteenth birthday, which is dreaded by each girl in Summer Academy. Even though most of us have nothing in common, and lot’s of hate was being passed along this was something we all had in common. All we know is that they take all the sixteen year old heiresses, and only 5 lucky heiresses and 5 secondary heiresses come back alive. “Klara? Hello? Everything ok? I need help picking out my jewelry!” “I’m coming Caroline! Remember I’m  not covering for you when your mother calls this time!” “She never calls! It was the first time ever! Also will you come with me later to go debutante dress shopping? Our parents are combining them together and your mom sent the fund for your dress so the last step is to choose it!” “Whatever you say Caroline! That silver necklace with the diamond bracelet, the Prada purse would complete the look, now let me go back to studying?”                       Ding, Dong! “Caroline he came, could you please go open the door? I’m reading.” Nicholas Brentwood, Caroline's boyfriend. No one in Sunset Academy knows where he came from. Our best guess is that he probably goes to Ivory Prep all boy’s school, but even that isn’t certain. He is really nice and is different from all the other guys that Carolines dated, and that is a lot. For the four years I’ve known her I estimated at least twenty different guys coming to the apartment, and at least fifty that came to pick her up for a date. Nick as he likes being referred to is really hot, Caroline says he is the captain of the football team which explains his looks and his intelligence. He is a good person, but he isn’t that smart. Which is really surprising because on his creation certificate it says he is heir, which usually means that he should have a higher intelligence level. A creation certificate is the document you receive from the government that explains your role and society. We receive a document and the color we always need to dress in, or atleast to have an accent of that color . This way the Government has an “organized” way of classifying us. Anyway, Nick always surprises me, for example he once forgot how to read.   “Hey Klara, is Caroline ready yet?” He looked at his watch and then checked his phone. “She will be ready any minute now. She is just debating about what shoes to wear with her outfit.” “Tell her that I’ll be waiting outside and tell Caroline to meet me in the car. Tell her it's the blue Porsche today.” Just when Nick was about to head out the door, Caroline came out. She looked really dolled up and ready to go. “ Be sure to lock the apartment Klara, and when I come back we are going shopping!” Then she headed out the door. I was getting my uniform ready for tomorrow. A yellow blazer, white dress shirt, yellow and black plaid skirt, black dress shoes, light grey stockings and a yellow ribbon. All I needed was a croquet mallet and I would become a Heather. M. Yellow is the color I have to wear, because my rank is heiress. According to Grandmother Milliton, “Every girl should be honored to wear a Sunset Academy Uniform.” The funny thing is, my Grandmother didn’t even go to Sunset Academy, and she had the rank of Secondary Heiress which wears the color blue. After three hours of studying , one hour of watching TV, Caroline came home. She was very happy and bubbly and I didn’t understand why until she showed me it. The ring on her finger. Oh my goodness! Caroline Kingsely got engaged! This is a first, is this really my Caroline? The girl who is scared of commitment, A’s in her classes and anything that would make her a good girl.  “Caroline Kingsley, Secondary Heiress is getting married?!” “Yeah, isn't it lovely? And now I don’t have to wear blue because the gemstone is a sapphire!” After squealing and drinking one bottle of champagne, she called her parents and they talked for an hour. I looked up at the clock and saw the time, 12:00, I have class tomorrow, I need to go to bed! “Congrats again Caroline! But we have class tomorrow, and I have to sign off for the night.” With those words, I went to my room and fell asleep the minute my head hit the pillow. The next day I woke up with a massive headache, probably from all the champagne. After swallowing two aspirins I looked at the clock. Damn it! We overslept! “CAROLINE!! We overslept!! Wake up! We will be late to chemistry and Professor Exter hates people that come late to his class!” “Klara what is going on? Professor canceled today, he has some family issues or something like that.” “Well Caroline you didn’t feel the need to inform me? You knew I would react like this. “That’s part of the fun you see…” “Stop. Well I have to head to biology, and that means you need to go to your edicate lesson.” I stepped out into the morning sun, and gosh it was bright. I should have not accepted the champagne yesterday. If anyone found that bottle we might get expelled, why didn't we think? “Hey Klara. Nice outfit you got there!” That was Nicolette Dewitt, I’m pretty sure that her only goal in her life is to make Caroline and I miserable. “Hey did you hear us Nerdex? That yellow color doesn’t suit your figure.” Camila Dewitt, Nicolette’s twin sister, you could say it was a match made in hell. Camila and Nicolette were originally born with a servant rank, but their daddy braided some officials to change it. Now it's heiress, but everyone knows that they were created to be servants just by their intelligence. “ I think you would look better in green personally.” “We were born heiresses, and you better understand that Nerdex, we are just as good as you are.” “Yeah Milliton Brat, watch your mouth. We are just doing you a favor about the yellow outfit.” Ever since day one at Sunset Academy they had made it their mission to make me miserable. Caroline agrees with me, but I can’t tell the  dean’s administration, because no one is more powerful than the Dewitts. Some rumors say that they are in a mafia, because whoever messes with the Dewitts, end’s dead. So, I walked away from the Dewitt twins, and walked straight into hell fire. Vivian Topwells, Elaine Windsor, Sharon Sheridden, Addison Porter and Merdrith De Clare, the “popular girls”. They make everyone miserable, all of them have boyfriends, and don’t get me started on the makeup. “Well isn’t everyone's favorite heiress?” Vivian said sarcastically. Walk faster, Walk faster, but my legs didn’t budge. “Anyone seen her biology book? Wait, I have it!” Addison Smirked, and helped me up my book bag. “Look, what did I ever do to you guys that gave you guys the right to make me so miserable?”  “I don’t know girls? Maybe it has to do with being the heiress to the Milliton and Cortex fortunes?” Sharon claimed. “I think I heard her reading glasses shatter!” Elaine said, and all of them started to laugh, and walked away. Great! Not only did they break my reading glasses, I was late to biology. I decided to skip it and head back to the apartment. “They were there right?” “Yep, and to add to the factor they stole my biology text book and also broke my reading glasses!” “ So typical of them, I sometimes want to kill them personally.” “ Remember the Dewitts…” I called the nurses office and made Caroline call me sick. “So what are we going to do? I have an idea!” “What's this amazing idea Caroline?” “Let’s go debutante dress shopping, yours needs a yellow sash right? I’m calling my tailor!” I sighed, Caroline is great and all, but she is very strong headed. She dragged me into the car and drove me to the tailor's office. All the white on the dresses was just giving me a headache, and all the shades of blue and yellow for the sashes. After trying on about 100 dresses, we chose matching ones, paid and left. “ We will go get some gloves after they finish making the dress, and then we can go pick up some jewelry! Also we could go get some...” At that point I zoned out of the conversation and just looked out the window. I will be sixteen in a week, I am the last heiress to have her sixteenth birthday. That means we will be taken somewhere and only ten girls return out of two hundred.  ”I was thinking we could get you a canary diamond necklace, and I could have one made of sapphires...” What is going to happen on the day I come back to Sunset Academy after my birthday and debutetane? I hope it's just a rumor. “And we could get matching hairstyles!...” What a relief it would be if the event was just a rumor, and one big dreadful lie. “ Are you listening to me Klara?” I stared out the window, maybe it is a lie. Most Secondary Heiresses and Heiresses get married at sixteen and drop out of their Academies, because they already have a provider. The others that stay to finish their education are heiresses to large fortunes and will be starticagally put into arranged marriages by the government. “What about the fans! I was thinking of the ones with those fluffy feathers and the gold accents that run across the slides. They look lovely…” Would only some of us only live to see sixteen candles on the cake? If this was true, I would be disappointed. I imagine my Father Micheal Cortex would gladly write in my obituary,” Failure from the beginning to the end. She couldn’t even live to finish her duty to the family and the government!” To add insult to injury, my Mother would be sitting there and helping him write it.  Most parents would throw a funeral,  cry and be in grief for a long time. But not the Coretx-Millitons! They would be throwing a “She’s gone now, but fear not, Honor’s taking over!” party. Don’t get me wrong, I love my sisters and we are really close , but ever since day one we were put in the arena to get our parents love. When we were younger we despise each other, if our parents wanted us to kill one another, we would to do it. Just to get their stupid and fake affection. As time moved on we stopped trying, because whatever we did never was enough. “Klara how come you got an A? You know that you have to better than your sisters, your the heir and that's you duty!”  “But Mama, why can’t Honor and I be friends? Aren’t we sisters?”  “Oh Klara, all she is your replacement and I don’t believe you want to be replaced do you?”  In front of our parents we hate each other, but we are good friends.  “What did I do wrong Papa? I was just helping Haylnn, she needed help! Please don’t hit me! Papa please! I’m sorry!” I screamed, I yelled for help, but mother just sat there smiling while I started sobbing. Two long bleeding cuts were now on my cheek.  “ You don’t help your sister’s even if your life depends on it.You understand? Because each time you do I will have to punish you.” He walked away all satisfied, while my mother sat there. Blood dripped onto my light pink dress, and I looked up at my mother, still smiling she got up and said, “The real world won’t baby you, Klara, and you should know that by now.” But that was the way that my life went on until I was old enough to board at Sunset Academy. I felt horrible for leaving my sisters, but I was able to escape from this abusive household and I took the chance. Now I am stronger and I could stand up to them, but my younger sisters live at home and are manipulated every day. My cell phone rang, it had my sister's number highlighted. I picked up the phone. “He hit Maddie! She is bleeding badly, he cut her above the stomach area! I’m driving her to Sunset Academy right now because I can’t take her to the hospital and isn’t Caroline majoring in Pre Med? Maddie! Oh my god! She passed out. Is Caroline Near the phone? Please Klara!”  “Caroline drive back to campus as fast as you can, I don’t care about the tickets, I’ll cover them later!” “What happened, did your father hit Honor or Haylnn again?” “No he hit Maddie this time, she must have done something that really didn’t please him because he cut her somewhere around the stomach area!” “But your father never hit Maddie! No matter How much she screwed up. It just seems weird! Does Honor have some ice with her, and if one of your other sisters is in the car tell them to put little but not too much pressure on the cut!” “We are almost at Summer Academy, just try and put a little bit of pressure on the cut.”  Caroline Parked somewhere quickly and I went to open the door.  My twin sister Honor, was helping my other sister Haylnn get Maddie out of the back seat. Even though Maddie had her red dress on, I could see the blood stain that kept on getting wider on her dress. Caroline had already prepared our sofa to place Maddie on to see what she could do.  Maddie always did what father and mother told her to, so why did she get hit? I never understood how my parents hurt us without showing any emotion. “She passed out fifteen minutes  ago, we were still driving and she just went unconscious!” Honor cried. “Haylnn gave her water every ten minutes and we tried putting pressure on the wound then I just kept bleeding more. Maddie was screaming and blood started dripping on my car seat, and everything was a mess!” Honor kept on crying and explaining while I looked over at Haylnn. She had a cut on her neck and a black eye. “What happened Haylnn! You have a cut on your neck and a black eye!” “When he was about to hit Maddie, wanting to save her, I went in front of her. He hit me .Slightly cut my neck, but I'm fine!” I gave Caroline her medical kit that she received from her parents. “We might need to stitch together the cut, and she will need to stay at Summer Academy for awhile to keep track of her coma, I’m estimating that it might last from two days to two months.” I touched the two scars on my face. After they formed, my parents told me to tell people that our dog scratched my face. I’m slightly blind in the eye that the scars go running through, and it doesn’t help my appearance. I have straight brunette hair, brown eyes and a misly figure. I looked at Maddie, why did he hit her? Our parents don’t like us, but they loved Maddy. She was the definition of perfect in their eyes. Blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin, smart and talented in many ways. Sometimes, I want to kill my parents with throwing knives dipped in poison, so that death would be slow and painful. Then I would be the Heiress and guardian for my sisters and I would make sure that they would never be treated this way again. “Do you have any type of stain remover?” “Yeah Honor, we do, but why do you need it?” “When Maddie was sitting in the back seat she was bleeding horribly, and the back seat was fully stained. I can’t let Mother and Father see the blood.” “I think it's under the sink in the bathroom if not i’ll go and buy it.” In the meantime I saw Caroline call the administration office asking if she could borrow a heart monitor machine, and a water dispenser from the campus hospital. Then in a matter of minutes they were delivered to the apartment, and Caroline was hooking up the machine to Maddie. She looked so helpless, and so lifeless. It destroyed me from the inside to see her like this. Maddie never did anything wrong, or hurt someone. She was just a twelve year old girl. What did she screw up with? “She didn’t want to get married to Carson Chamberlain. Mother and father wanted her to get married to Carson but she refused. She said she wanted to go to school until she was sixteen at least but father didn’t want to argue with her, and this happened.” Haylnn explained. I stared at Maddie, I couldn’t see why my parents wanted her to marry. Did they see my sisters and I as bargaining tools? A tool that they could use to close deals? Carson is older than Maddie by a decade,  and Honor was originally arranged to marry Carson.  “She is going to be ok Klara. I’m predicting that Maddie will wake up in a couple of hours if everything goes according to plan.” I knew Caroline wanted to cheer me up, but I didn’t believe that Maddie was going to be ok. Even if Maddie would wake up, she would be forced to be a child bride.  The heart monitor started to slow down, and the spikes became lower and lower. “Caroline! Her heart monitor, it looks like it’s going flat! Caroline quickly!”  Caroline came running into the room and that's when it happened. The chart went flat, and the world went dark around me. I woke up to see myself in the campus hospital and Caroline sitting right next to me. “She died didn’t she, right Caroline?” “We shouldn’t talk about it right now, you're in a super fragile state. You were dehydrated and you fainted.” “She died, didn't she? Maddie, she died.” Caroline looked nervously out the window. “If you really need to know what she did, I tried everything. I even tried to revive her, but she lost too much blood.” I looked aimlessly at the window, at least she wasn’t going to be a miserable child bride. From this point onward, something changed in me. I wasn’t going to watch aimlessly, I’m starting to create my revenge list. It’s going to be one enroumas party, because so many people have wronged me in the past. Whatever was going to happen after my birthday, is going to be my chance for me to start planning because I could cross off so many people off my list. “Klara are you ok?” “I’ve never been better.”