Arctic Meadows

Four

Vision

Mia frowned as she found herself standing in the middle of a grassy field. Looking around, she noticed she was still wearing her pyjamas.

‘That’s weird,” she thought to herself.

The grassy field was covered with dandelions, which were her favourite flowers, as they stood out and not many admired them. Just like her. The smell of them made her feel warm and normal.

Mia giggled as the grass tickled her toes, as her feet sunk into the grass. She couldn’t help but sigh. All of a sudden she noticed that, she saw herself standing in front of her, like 8 feet away.

The figure she saw though was transparent and could see straight through. Scratching her head, as she tried to figure out why. Mia tried to move forward but her feet stuck to the ground, making her heart rate quicken.

“Mia,” she shouted trying to get the attention of her transparent figure but it wasn’t any use.

It was like, she couldn’t hear herself

Shaking her head in shock, she began to watch to witness a scene unfold in front of her, a loud howl erupted her thoughts.

‘Who was that?’ She thought to herself

The wolf appeared, showing its colours. A beautiful moonlight black, like the one she had seen today. Also the one she drew a picture of, but the wolf wasn’t alone. In fact 6 other wolves were chasing it. Like cat and mouse.

The run running towards the transparent Mia, didn’t look happy, he immediately jumped in front of her transparent figure, protecting it from the 6 wolves.

‘Why was the wolf protecting me? What does this mean’ thoughts crossed her mind once again.

Mia wanted to knock some sense in herself, the black wolf howled loudly as the 6 pounced on him.

“No!” She reached out, trying to move.

The black wolf was strong enough to knock all the wolves off of him, but he began to morph into a human. Wait what? A werewolf? I thought they were myths.

The morph wolf turned to face the transparent Mia, but for Mia herself the face was blackened out. As if her vision didn’t want her to know who it was yet. He turned back around guarding Mia

“Watch out!”

Mia watched as the man waited for the right moment to attack, he knew when to by the looks of his stance. When the first wolf attacked, he through it away from them. While the transparent Mia tried to do the same.

A loud c***k filled the air as the wolf hit the tree, causing Mia to gasp.

She couldn’t believe this.

End vision

Mia gasped loudly as she jumped awake, thunder cracked in the air making her heart rate quicken. "What the hell?" Mia asked herself as she slowly pulled the sheets off her body.

Mia swung her legs around the bed placing her feet on the ground and lifted herself up. Lightning seeped through her window making her jump as she heard another loud clap of thunder. Mia slowly walked out of her room and headed towards the bathroom where she cleaned her face.

Mia splashed water on her face and when she looked up, Michael was standing behind her with his arms crossed. "What did I tell you… you little slut" he growled.

Michael grabbed the back of Mia's neck making her gasp before forcing her head down which cracked against the side of the sink making her whimper out, blood splattered against the sink, mirror and tiles. "Please" Mia whimpered out.

Michael chucked and brought his mouth to her ear, she could feel his hot breath. "I will never stop, not until you get what you deserve. I have never wanted you nor will I ever want someone as pathetic as you" he laughed.

Michael pushed Mia making her stumble until she fell onto the ground where his foot landed in her abdomen making her cry out a little and grip her stomach. Mia felt the wind get knocked out of her, she gasped trying to get it back only for another blow to the abdomen came. Mia coughed harshly at the contact and looked up to see Michael revving his fist back before connecting it to Mia's eye and another to her lip.

Blood flowed out of Mia's mouth at the contact of Michael's fist hitting her lip. Mia whimpered quietly and felt him grab her by the hair and yank her hair up. "Next time you disobey me, it'll be much worse" Michael growled in Mia's ear before letting her go. "You are a sorry excuse for a Smith" he spat at her before leaving Mia in the bathroom.

Mia cried quietly into her hand feeling the pain sore through her body, why can't she be strong? Why can't she fight back? Mia hated herself. Mia groaned as she slowly stood up and leapt over to the vanity where she began to watch her face once again hissing at the searing pain in cheek and lip. Mia grabbed some ibprehoen from the cabinet underneath the vanity and took 2 - no make that 4.

Mia headed out of the bathroom towards Sophie's room and curled into her warm sheets instantly feeling the warmth of Sophie. "Another vision?" Sophie asked as she yawned, she felt the bed move and knew it was Mia.

"Yes," Mia answered with a yawn. "That and the storm outside is scaring me a little."

Sophie couldn't help but smile a little as she yawned. "I'll protect you. No one will harm you" she whispered before her eyes closed again.

Mia bit her lip and tried not to think of a mind question knowing Sophie would hear it. Mia just instantly fell asleep, no more visions for the night. The next morning Mia woke up with a searing headache, she groaned as she held her head. Why did Michael have to abuse her last night? Why couldn't she just stand up to him?

Mia hissed as she sat up slowly and could see Sophie doing the tie-up. "Morning Mia, how did you get the bruise on your face?" Sophie asked.

Mia gasped, what could she say. "Oh well, I sort of tripped last night after my visions. Can you believe it over my own slippers" she laughed it off.

Mia stood up and tried not to make a sound as she did and bit her lip so hard it could break the skin away. "I should get ready for school" Mia commented before leaving Sophie's room to her own where she began to get dressed.

Mia gaped at the massive bruises on her stomach, they were black and blue, some were even purple. How can she hide this? She's got Physical Education and that is a completely different school uniform. The girls wore crop tops that came to the belly button and high waisted leggings. Mia put on her clothes and stashed her clothes for Physical Education in them.

Mia felt tears come to her eyes as she began to think about what she could do. She couldn't skip that would make her a bad student and Michael would love to abuse her again because of it. She didn't know what to do, her chest became tight as she gripped onto her dressing table and tried to take deep breaths. Mia sunk to the floor and tried counting from 50.

49..48..47..46

Mia whispered the numbers to herself but it wasn't calming her down. This was all taking a toll on her and she had no one to turn too, she couldn't tell Sophie as Sophie idolizes Michael and well Sophie's the favourite and if Mia would tell her Michael would withhold the information and lie about it. Mia needed to get out of this house, but where was she supposed to go? Mia was trapped.

After a few moments of breathing slowly and counting once again, her anxiety attack began to subside making her breath normally again. Mia slowly stood up and faced the mirror once again opening up her make-up bag and began putting make-up on. It wasn't like she hadn't done it before, Mia hissed as the foundation touched her bruises cheek and lip. Slowly the bruising was gone from the make-up but it will rub off during the day.

Mia placed her makeup bag in her school bag before she picked it up and headed downstairs where she began to make Sophie's lunch and fill her lunch bag up. Sophie had a ham and cheese sandwich, with an apple juice, two fruit snack bars, a chocolate muffin and a health shake while Mia just had an apple, a banana and if course a water.

"Sophie and Mia. Let's go, you know the drill I can't be late" Michael said as his keys rattled.

Mia placed the lunch bags in her hand and gave Sophie's hers who smiled warmly at Mia giving her thank you eyes. Sophie and Mia piled into Michaels car and buckled up.