Hurt

Chapter 2: Awaiting embarrassment

Dad was far from a good man, Mum just got back and he's already asking for his food? it wasn't like he gave Mum money to make something for him to eat, he just kept being aggressive to Mum. I wasn't ready to see mum and dad fight themselves or rather I'd say, I wasn't ready to see dad beat Mum up. They weren't fighting, they never fought, she always got beaten. Mum cried as a result of the force dad used to pull her newly made hair that I've always positively envied, for a while he stopped beating her, looked around the house, and then continued beating mum....that day felt different, mums cry pierced my heart deeply, it got to me, I managed to squeeze myself into the tiny space between them...she was receiving hard punches, so getting myself in between them would surely be almost impossible and besides I was no longer fat, I knew skinny Vanessa. Quite skinny though...I had to shield my mum from my dad...it got to me, I had to ask.

" What kind of a father are you??? I said to my dad abusively. On hearing what I said, it just seemed his energy level grew higher, now he was fully charged...he faced me, beating stupidity and indiscipline that I never had out of me, but I didn't mind bearing it all, I didn't care about the pain my body was currently passing through, all I cared about was my mum. Lily didn't know what to do, I called her a fool in mind but the truth was that when I was her age I did worse than nothing, the boys were crying for some reasons I thought were stupid. When my dad finally derived his satisfaction in panel beating us, he stepped out.

This negative dilemma never affected my academics, I was still good at school work even though I didn't have any atom of joy or happiness in me. I could sense sadness as the only emotion within me. I went to school the next day and saw a very stupid teacher of mine, he greeted me reminding me that I haven't greeted him. I snubbed him, walked out without looking back, and he felt bad, Vanessa didn't care. Association or socialization wasn't my thing, I hate associating with people not because I didn't want to but because I never had the heart to. I rested my head on my desk, I didn't like the noise the class was making, it terrified me I had issues. I had to eat it up, not long after, I zoomed off to wonderland. There I was enjoying my sleep, not knowing there was a teacher in my class, he taught the whole class leaving me behind. He asked a girl "Maria" to wake me up, she tapped me hard, and I woke up. The first thing in my sight was an anonymous-looking nerd, the foolish girl just laughed, she was foolish, I thought.

I sat up straight, the class started laughingly not knowing what made them laugh, didn't still care.

" You, come here!!!...he said authoritatively, I just ignored his nonsense and went straight to where he stood looking at him straight in the face like I wanted to punch his freckled face.

"Derive the almighty formula!!...he ordered,

Who the butt did he think he was?? My mum??? she couldn't even order me that much. I gave him that fake smile and worked it out, I derived the useless formulae, I immediately saw the shock in his eyes but didn't care.