The Lost One

"Aria, Aria..... where are you? You didn't clean the house like you were supposed to. I'm sick of your failures to do simple tasks. Aria! COME OUT THIS INSTANT! I know you in there hiding you better come out before John gets here. You know it's not going to be pretty. Im trying to be nice bring your a** out here right now!"  Tanya yells.  I hear her yelling at me as I hide in the crawl space behind my bed. I was so tired and sore from last night. Father wouldn't stop beating me behind me not taking the trash out fast enough. I didn't mean to sleep that long but my body begged for me to rest. Now I'm going to have to deal with my adoptive mother's rath. It's no fun being adopted especially seeing how they treat her. I wondered why my real family gave me up. Did they think I was disgusting too?  Maggie their biological daughter gets everything she could possibly want while all I get is beating and insults. I wish I knew my family so I could get the treatment I deserve. The love and care that every girl wants. 17 years I've dealt with this behind closed doors.  Going to school and hiding the bruised and scares.  Maggie has never stood up for me, when we were younger she used to give me sad looks like she was hurt about what I was going through. Maggie is two years younger than me and she thinks she's better than me. Now she laughs in the background of my beatings. I get beat for entertainment for her. I am just a laughing stock in this house, a human punching bag. The loser that no one loves. I dream about being normal and having a good life.   I used to like a boy his name was Joseph. When I asked joseph too a dance he just laughed at me, called me a disgusting pig, and walked away. I wish he would have given it a chance and go to know me. That he would have let me show him how much I loved him. Yeah, right there's some wishful thinking. After that, I pretty much have just given up on finding someone who could love me. Growing up in a small town in Virginia you would think I would be the typical looking girl but no... Everyone was thin and pretty. I'm not even considered average. My body wouldn't look like I live like this because even though I hardly eat my body is fat. No matter what I do I couldn't lose weight. That only gave my so-called family more things to talk about more for. My olive skin didn't even look right on me with my bad acne. It didn't help that I'm always covered in bruises. I had short dirty blonde hair and dark brown eyes they looked like they could be black. I was only 4'11, I was nothing special I didn't stand out at all. I don't have any friends kids at school looked at me funny for my run down clothes.  While Maggie was a cheerleader and one of the popular kids. With her tan skin, long blonde hair, and blue eyes who wouldn't love her. She had curves that I only dream of having. She always had the best clothes, the newest of the new styles. At school she was a completely different person yes, she still didn't talk to me but she was nice to everyone else. She wouldn't look at me with disgust like she does at home. She just acts like I don't exist and honestly I rather that. *bang bang bang*  The bangs on the door burst me back into reality. I hear the lock on the door being broken and the frame c***k. My door is thrown up I can see it out the c***k out the crawl space. Father's larger frame cam flying through the door. He looks so angry his brown eyes looked pitch black and his brown hair was standing upon his head. His body was so buff he could barely fit through the door frame. I swear I could see the veins on his neck popping out. All this angry couldn't just be for me, could it? Something else must have happened today and I'm going to get the end of it. How can someone do this to another person? Why do I deserve this torture I'm not a bad person? "Aria I'm done with your s**t  get your fat a** out here now! I know you in that f*****king dirty hole of yours." John smacked he threw my bed away from the wall. I jumped in fear as that he approached the door of the crawl space. I tried to hold the door closed but I couldn't compare to his strength. He ripped the little door off of its hinges. I closed my eyes to prepare for what was about to happen. I took in the beating that he was giving me. The first hit took my breath away that I didn't realize I was holding. Hit, after a hit went against my body pain, erupted from every spot that his fists went against. Blood began to pour from my face as I think he broke my nose. His next hit was at my eye. I feel like he shattered my eye socket. I couldn't contain the pain I was feeling. I let out a yelp. "Shut up b****h!" He sent his fist straight into my mouth to silence me.  My teeth felt as though they shock on impact. Blood began to pour from my mouth. I couldn't help but cry out again. I know by now I'm supposed to stay silent during his beatings. But today was worse than any other day I had experienced. His massive fist was like gunshots against my skin and I had blood leaking to prove it. I couldn't take it my eyes barely open slowly started to close all the way. I think I'm blacking out. That didn't stop him though as my eye close I still feel his fists.  "John hurry up and put her in the truck we need to get her out of here before anybody sees us!" Tanya whispered hastily     "Shut up Tanya I know what I need to do, you don't have to tell me.  I'm going to get rid of this dumb b****h  and we wouldn't have to deal with her dumb a** anymore. We should have been got rid of her things would have been so much easier. I really don't know why we took her in the first place. Damnn why is she so heavy"  " Don't you tell me to shut up John we don't need to get caught we have a daughter to think about. Maggie needs us. Don't go making dumb mistakes and you know why we took her don't act like you forgot. "     "Duh, Tanya you don't think I know that. Just go clean the blood up and pick up the mess. When I get back home we will plan out the rest. We will talk to Maggie together and let her know what's going on."     Through barely open eyes I see the back of his truck. I feel him lifting me into the back of his truck but I have no strength to protest. He throughs me in the back and I hear the tailgate close. I hear whispering but can't make out the words. I'm happy about that I know they didn't love me but to hear them plan to get rid of me takes it to a whole other level.   I want to get up I want to run away but I can't move. I want to scream out for help but the words can not escape my swollen lips. I don't want to die, not like this I wish someone would come outside to see me and save me. No one cares enough to save me, Not one soul is here in this world who cares about me. Not too long after the whispering stops, I hear the truck door slam and turn on. I feel the truck moving and I don't have the strength to stay awake.....     In and out of my sleep I can see the sky as we drive to where ever he is taking me oh how I wish I could be a star... So... free...So...beautiful...So Important... looked upon as beautiful and amazing to live in a place so far away and wonderful. Thinking about it I drift back to sleep. I open my swollen eyes to barely see my father carrying me to what looks like a forest. Next thing I know my body is dropped hard to the cold hard ground. The pain erupted from my body as my broken body settled. "Good riddance," He said as he spits on me. I managed to see my father turn around and walk away from me.  I can't believe this he really just dumped me I guess he really isn't my father anymore, that I don't have a family anymore. I am going to die all alone in the world. With tears streaming down my face I let the darkness take me. Hopefully, death will be soon to follow.