Mate This Isn't The End

Episode # 1

1st episode:-

Skylar’s (POV)

Hi, I’m Skylar Grace James, 17 years old, weak, pathetic human being. Don’t take me wrong I didn’t say all these things about me by myself it is just my so-called parents who adopted me years back, blabber these lines daily, so I will not forget about my reality. That's the reason I also call them my adopted parents, because when they couldn't take me as their daughter, then how can I take them as my actual parents.

They never missed a day when they didn’t say to me, that they have done a favour on me by adopting me, because, according to them they found me, literary in the gutter. And by sheltering me in their home, they have done a great favour on me.

However, they didn't know that if they had left me in that gutter, then that thing will be much better, from this hell in which I’m living from the last 12 years. 

I was 5 when they found me, and I don’t remember when this mental and physical a.b.u.s.e started. I even don’t remember how they adopted me, or how they found me. I don’t know about my life before, and I don’t know why. 

Maybe their t.o.r.t.u.r.e affected my mind that’s why I forgot all the things of my past years, Maybe...

In all these things, I didn’t lose my innocence, for which I’m thankful to whom I don’t know, but I’m grateful. They didn’t leave a single part of my body where I didn’t get any beating. Now you people will say, why I didn’t leave their house till now? It’s just I’m waiting for my 18th birthday, because after that only I’ll be able to move from this hellhole, legally.

I didn't want to take any step in a hurry, because of which I had to regret my whole life. 

Currently, I'm working in a small store as a salesgirl; I used to go to school, but when I was 15 my adopted father said; I don’t deserve any education, and he made me do a job. 

I said nothing and start doing the job.

Every day while leaving for a job, I got a slap on my face from my adopted mother. Because, according to her, I never made an excellent breakfast for her. Without even tasting it, she decorates my face with her slap as a tip given to any waiter or waitress in restaurants.

My worst beating was 1.5 years back when by mistake I burnt the dinner. My father pushed me from the stairs, and then my mother put my hands in the burnt pot of food on the stove.

My leg fractured, and my hands burnt brutally. It took 2 months for my leg, and hands to come back in a proper form. My life is just like that only, getting beatings, then a job with a limited salary in which 75% share goes to my parents because they think I don’t deserve my hard work money (as usual).  

Today at my workplace, there is some checking of the stock is going on. The owner ordered us to help him in that work. We are total, 6 who work in this store. Today I’m sure that I will get the worst beatings from my parents, as I will be late, from work. My returning time is 6 pm, but today I will reach home at around 9 pm. I don’t want to think about my future condition.

8:45 pm:-

Skylar left her workplace and was walking towards her home. It was at a walking distance of around 20 to 25 minutes. She reached her home at 9:10 pm. She rang the bell on which her father opened the door.

She got scared after seeing his red bloodshot eyes. While he, wasting no second, held her from hair and pulled them brutally. On which Skylar couldn't able to hold her scream, and she screamed.

“You b.it.ch where the hell, were you? Did you see the time or you were busy in w*****g around?” Her father said while giving her a tight slap, on which tears start flowing from her eyes.

“Today we all were busy in stock checking that’s why I become late,” she said in a weak voice and tried to loosen his grip from her hair.

“Shut your mouth, I know its all lie. Today I will tell you what’s the punishment of lying to your father,” he said while throwing her on the floor, and took out his belt. He beats her without giving her a single chance for any explanation.

“Please stop, please father stop, don’t do this, please.” She was crying in pain, but he didn’t stop. After around 20 minutes or more he stopped, and Skylar felt a minor relief, but it didn’t for long. Because, her father made her stand while holding her hair, and threw her out from the main door.

Get out from my house you don’t deserve this place, go to those boys with whom you slept. Her father said and closed the door on her face.

She was sitting outside the door with numb expressions; she was trying to understand what just happened. First, he had beaten her like she is some punching back, and then he just pushed her out from their house.

It didn’t happen ever before; they had beaten her many times before also. But they never threw her out of the house.

She came back in her senses after a few seconds and stood on her feet with great difficulty as her entire body was paining, and bleeding from so many places. She banged on the door for sometimes and asked them to let her come in, but nothing happened.

She stepped back, and while stumbling started walking from there. Her home was in that area where there was a jungle at some distance. Without thinking or seeing that where she was going; her steps turned towards the jungle. She was walking with a numb feeling. She can’t able to understand the situation from which she just came out, or from where she has thrown out. 

Today was a day, when the last nail, pierced, in the coffin of her tolerance. 

She doesn’t want to live anymore; today every barrier in front of her tolerance has broken. Every memory in which they had hurt her, was running like a film in front of her eyes. Tears were continuously flowing from her eyes, but she didn’t dare to wipe them.

Her entire body was on fire because of pain and frosty weather. But, she was feeling nothing except the emptiness. 

While walking, she didn’t realize that she was now deep inside the jungle. Suddenly she tripped and fell on the ground. But, then also she was in her thoughts, lost.

Her thoughts broke when she heard something in her surroundings. She looks upward, and become shocked when she found around 10 to 12 wolves standing in a circle with her in their midst. All were growling and were ready to attack her. When suddenly, the whole jungle echoed with a loud howl and growls.

All wolves freeze (as they know the meaning of that howl) including her, on their spots. 

She looks towards the wolves for sometimes, and then she just gave a bitter smile to her life, and murmured in a whisper, “finally I’ll be free; finally, this is the end of my every pain,"  with that view around her faded, without noticing a pair of hands, who held her tightly.

“To be continued…”

Guys, I know it’s not a very good episode. But, I will try my best to not bore you people, with unnecessary things in this story.