Engagement Party

Amira's Despair.

"Where is that useless child Amira?" A resounding roar from the woman she called her stepmother. Had Amira shivering in fright while in the kitchen washing the dishes. She could eat the leftover as her stepmom was always abusive and starving her even after cooking.

Sara, Amira's stepmother has been psychologically abusive, to Amira. She has never missed an opportunity to denigrate, insult, belittle, shame, and otherwise.

"I'm here ma." She quickly rushes down to meet her stepmom.

"What keep you so long? Didn't you hear your name?" Sara asked anguishedly.

"I was watching the dishes when you called ma." Amira replied with a smile on her face.

Anything that triggers Amira, not smiling back in the way her stepmom wants her to smile. She has herself to blame.

"You have 5 minutes to finish those dishes or else, you have yourself to blame." She said abruptly with a wicked smirk on her face.

Amira quickly ran to the kitchen before any more insults, as she was always abused by her stepmother, pouring all kinds of insults on her without a single fault. Yet, she just as quickly flips around her acting normal, trying to hug her and pretend she didn't crush her soul and if she doesn't play along as a happy dutiful stepchild she will quickly suffer even more abuse and have herself to blame.

The disproportionate amount of this abuse has landed on Amira. She has been called everything from stupid to a worthless waste of a child since her childhood.

All because her mother had died while giving birth to her. Was it her fault? She didn't ask to be born, neither was she happy that her mother choose to leave her behind. She would have taken her to wherever she was going. But she didn't ask for all this!

"Oh my God, what happened? Why is the Sandwich not enough?" Sara her step-mom asks anguishedly the moment Mr. Ben Amira's father walked in.

Amira choked down in shock, as the question rang a bell in her head. She stood motionless not knowing what to say, because she had demanded money from Sara her stepmother, to go to the closest store to get more Sandwich, but her step-mom had refused to give her money. And left her no choice but to manage the available one, since the Sandwich is just for her father. And she thought it will be enough for her father for that faithful night since Sara had refused to give her money.

"Emm, emm." Amira uttered without mumbling a word. Mr. Ben, Amira's father was looking at her. Amira stood not knowing what to say because her stepmother was looking at her repulsing knowing fully well Amira did ask her for money for more Sandwich.

"look at her, stupid girl. She can't even talk about what happened to the money I gave to her." Sara castigated her in front of her dad, lying against an innocent girl just because she has no mother.

"Speak up, before I lose my temper and descend on you." Mr. Ben Amira's dad, flared up in anger while slamming his palms against the wall. He looks so angry because the Sandwich won't be enough for him and the time is late to go out for more Sandwiches. It's already 11 pm at the time.

Amira scantily robs the edge of her nose, biting her lower lips not knowing what to say, and when she looks at Sara, her step-mom. She could see her smiling, rejoicing from her current situation because Sara knew she could not, and will never say a word to her father that she asked for money from her for more Sandwich.

Sara was the cause of everything, but that's one of her ways to make the poor innocent girl suffer at the hand of her biological father who doesn't care about Amira's happiness or try to know everything from the daughter.

Amira sighed in as she knew what is about to happen to her. She jumped in fright, and take a wary step back. Her father, Mr. Ben's angry voice could knock anything off the ground. She felt her heart leaps from her soul, as she was frightened, and she couldn't say a word but stammered in her dull voice.

And rolled her eyes inwardly as her eyes turn red in confusion and she felt alone before her father and stepmother.

How Sara managed to lie against Amira for her dad to hate her the more, was something she couldn't figure out, while her eyes were wetting already. It was unimaginable as she stood motionless.

Just in a fraction of a second. A loud and reverberating slap land on Amira's cheek, which had her see a star in her eyes, and she found herself on the floor. And Sara her stepmother looks happier seeing Amira being bitten by her father without any wrongdoing. She flipped her hair across her shoulder with so much excitement seeing her in pain.

Tears instantly began to flow freely from her eyes as she held on to her cheek while rolling on the floor bitterly.

The slap from her father is so fatal that it did affect her ears drum.

"What did you buy with the money she gave to you? You're such a useless daughter. You should've died together with your mother." Mr. Ben sparked in a loud voice. And Sara was rejoicing seeing Amira in pain.

"Please my love, it's enough. Let her be. You'd kill her when you noticed all the wrong things she had been doing in this house." Sara castigated her the more as she decides to stop her husband with more lies after being satisfied seeing her weeping in pain.

Sara was just bluffing, proving to her husband that she was a good stepmother by stepping in.

"Let her die if that's what it takes." Mr. Ben sparked and they left her on the cool wetted floor.

Amira panted and moaned in pain as no one is there to consolidate her, and she was very weak that she couldn't even cry or share any more tears, but groan in excruciating pain.

Mr. Ben's reaction was too much on his daughter. Even after hitting her so badly, they left her in the cold wetted corridor. All he cared about was teaching that unfortunate child of his a lesson without confirming the appropriate truth from the daughter.

Amira became traumatized with all kinds of worries, even when she did nothing. Sara her stepmother will always look for a way to humiliate, embarrass, condemned, and blamed her in one way or the other. As she, once told her during a party that she wished, her dad never gave birth to her because she is an ugly stain that shouldn't be seen in public.

Despite her excellent grades in school, great sociability. Cooking, cleaning, and being obedient, but still. Amira was still a waste of oxygen and a burden and never as good as other people's children. And she always makes a way to scare her to death and trigger an outburst of insults and be reminded that she was fed and sheltered so Amira should be grateful to have a good stepmother like she because if Amira stepped out of line she would be pushed out into the street. And Amira was 16years at the time.

However, she managed to put herself together knowing fully that her father is been controlled by her stepmother and if she mislay, she will be sent out to the streets and she gat nowhere to go. She didn't want to delay any seconds at all, as that might incur more discipline on her.

She swallowed hard secretly and she manage to put herself together and walked straight into her room with no bed on it. She sobbed all true out the night.

Amira suffered several pains and humiliation from her stepmother and Mr. Ben Amira's dad was blind to see the truth, all because he blame Amira for the death of his wife while giving birth to her. As he never cared about her well-been or give in to her complaint.

The last time Amira was sick as a teenager, she told her dad she felt unwell and the man's response was "good, I hope it gets worse. if you die you'll learn to not leave the house and wander around like a cheap, stupid w***e."

Amira was surprised and lost in words. Though, She had wanted to run out of the house but Amira had nowhere to run to except her only friend Charlotte which it impossible for her to stay with Charlotte's household.

Things became more difficult for her as time goes by. Tears become her daily food because there's not a day Sara won't make her feel pain and the memories of her mother's death giving birth to her. To this day, these memories bring her to tears and have her terrified of even having her own children when she's of age.