*A New Home *
The whole house smelled of burnt food, the hallway light was still blinking since yesterday, mum said that was how she met it. I carried my pillow and walked barefoot on the cold hard tiles and went straight to mum's room. The entrance to her room looked like I was entering a horror movie scene, no light and the door was broken. I called out softly,
"mom??, mom??!"
She turned a bit on her bed, her long black hair covering her eyes completely, she looked sick and tired but I was not going back to sleep on my own. Lilian had her own bed now and she was a bit angry before she went to bed the previous night. It was getting more cold, I checked the time on mum's alarm clock - 1:40am, I was very scared, cold and tired. I broke down in tears,
"why did we leave our old home?" I said to myself. I curled up into a ball, my blanket spread neatly on my head and started bawling. I heard footsteps coming towards me, I shivered but didn't bother looking. I kept crying at a much larger sound.
"Star?? Star?!"
Two different female voices echoed. I knew at once that it was both mum and Lillian's voice, they both came near me,
"What the hell are you doing?" Lilian hissed.
I carried my face up and faced her...
"regretting coming here, this place is very horrible, really horrible"
"you don't have to sweetie" mum said
"she has to be sad and angry because you literally spent all our money and brought us to this trash of a house!!" Lilian hissed again, "the roof's literally leaking"
Mom took a deep breath. She was a bit quiet with her long black hair tangled, sticking all over the place and her eyes a bit red,
"It's your dad's fault" she finally said
"Mum you changed our address and house too much, how do you expect him to keep in touch??" Lilian barked angrily, "common Star, let's go"
"LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE!!!!" mum said angrily slapping Lillian's hands away from me
"She's also MY SISTER!!" Lilian said nearly out of breath, she walked up to our room and slammed the door on I and mum's faces. Mum dragged me, her long fake nails digging into my fragile skin,
"Ouch, your hurting me!!" I said with a large broken voice.
"shhh, be quiet!" mum said violently, still pulling me tightly and more violently, her nails already formed a deep red injury on my skin.
I screamed, she covered my mouth, pulled me up and dropped me forcefully on her bed. I screamed again and clutched my injured hand, she stood for some minutes watching me silently like a hawk. I shivered and looked at her, my hair swimming in black circles around me. I could tell she was in a bad mood that night, she sat down and started crying like a baby.
"Mom??" I called out softly
I'm OK, I'm fine" she said cleaning her tears and mine, "I'm a terrible mum, aren't I?"
"No, your not" I said quickly even if sometimes I felt she was a terrible mum, I couldn't tell her that now...
"Lilian thinks I am"
"Mom, you are not, now get some sleep" I said like I was the mum and she was the daughter. She placed a cold hand on me and turned the other way, I could tell she was still crying but I couldn't do much, I placed my hands on my injury and laid on the bed, half crying, half sleeping. I slept eventually, a little pinch in my heart but I didn't know the reason or cause.