Wysteria

confliction

I'm in the cellar, taking inventory of my father's alcohol the way I always do. My body hurts from the beating he gave me not long ago. I place another bottle on the shelf when I hear the cellar door open. I look over just as the lock clicks. He turns around, stepping forward. His eyes scan over me, a smirk covering his face as he walks towards me, his hands undoing his belt. I back away from him until my back hits the wall. He grabs me, pinning me there. He grabs the rope from a box nearby as I try to get free. A huge fist slams into my stomach stopping me from struggling as I try to catch my breath, he uses this time to bind my hands together.

"you can't escape me. I own you... and I'm going to make sure you don't forget that"

his voice came out deep and cold sending chills through my spine. He starts unbuttoning my pants, horror set in as I realized what he was about to do. I struggle but I can't get free. He pulls me up by the ropes, turns me around and pushes me over the table we use for inventory, there's a full sized mirror on the wall across from me. My pants slide to the floor and he tears my panties off with a single move.

"please.. don't" I say

"shut up. your mine to do with as I please."

in the mirror i see his pants drop, he places one hand on my back keeping me in place as his other hand lowers his boxers.

"I have to say.. you don't look thirteen.. you've filled out nicely" he says

once his boxers are low enough he leans closer to me, pulling his d**k out.

"oh.. happy birthday" he whispers

without hesitation he slammed his d**k into me and I scream, tears falling from my eyes..

"wake up"

I struggle and plead only for him to laugh and tell me to beg..

"WAKE UP!"

I shot up and frantically look around the room; tears falling from my eyes, my body covered in sweat.

"it's ok,Tera. your safe."

"Faye.."

"I know.. but right now , you have company"

I turned towards the door to see Jason and Mr.Rhodes standing there, watching me.

"what in the hell was that?" Jason asks.

Mr. Rhodes hurries over to me, kneeling down. he's about to touch me when I let out a low growl, warning him to keep his hands off. This shocked him, though I don't know why.

"it was just a bad dream, I'm fine." I say

I stand up, pain shooting through my body causing me to wince. They look at me, eyebrows raised.

"it's from sleeping on the floor"

I know lying is wrong, but I've told lies all my life. The only reason it's different now than it was than is because now I'm not protecting a monster, I'm just protecting myself.

"speaking of that"

I look at Mr. Rhodes, noticing the smile on his face but his expression didn't bother me. I don't know how, but somehow I knew it was a good expression, there was no malice or Ill intent behind it.

"we need to set up your room" he says

His words sank in slowly... My room. A feeling spread in my chest, warm and.. unfamiliar; could this be what Joy feels like? No. This can't be Joy, that would mean I'd settled in and that can never happen. I have to keep moving, I have to get as far away from that monster as possible.. I have to protect Faye.

"you don't have to worry about me... if anything I'm the one who has to protect you."

"we have to protect each other. we're connected, after all"

"That we are.. but your incapable of fighting anyone as you are. we must get stronger... you must heal."

I knew she was right, just moving sent pain through out my body. I'm in no shape to run, let alone fight. The only choice I have is to stay here until I'm strong enough to get away.

"shall we begin?" Mr. Rhodes says

I heave a sigh before rolling up my sleeves and we get to work.

It's been a week since I moved here and nothing bad has happened yet. working at the inn has been amazing, the atmosphere is so warm and welcoming. the people are nice not to mention that, with the acception of Mr. Rhodes and his family.. their all human. It took a week but we got all the furniture and stuff in my room set up, but it still feels empty. People keep saying that I should pick a color to paint my walls and maybe decorate it a bit, make it mine.. but there's no point in doing that when I'm not staying. Though slowly, my body is beginning to heal... I just wish it'd hurry up. The phone starts ringing so I answer it.

"Hello, Evercrest inn" I say "Tera speaking, how can I help you today?.. oh, hey Ella"

Ella starts talking on the other end of the line. suddenly people just start shouting.

"Tera!" a voice says "There's a leak in 201"

"Kay" I say

"Tera, Jason needs stuff for the bar"

"Tera! We need you in the Dining Hall!"

"Alright!" I reply "... oh, I'm sorry you're not feeling well Ella.. no, no need to be sorry, take all the time you need. yeah, good bye Ella get better soon"

I hung up the phone before walking towards the Dining Hall, grabbing my clipboard and the wireless phone on the way. I put the phone to my ear as it rings, letting it rest between my shoulder and my ear as I head to the Dining Hall.

"Hello?"

"Louis, I have a leak in 201"

"I'll be right there"

We ended the call just as I walked through the door to the Dining Hall, handing the phone to a passing maid.

"what seems to be the issue?"

I noticed tons of recipe books and magazines on the table, the maids running around frantically trying to figure out what to do. They must be worried about the wedding that's booked for this weekend.

"We can't figure out what napkins to use" one says

"The bride wants elegant.."

".. but the groom wants country. "

after thinking about it for a moment, I pull out my little sketch book and a pencil and quickly draw a picture before tearing it from the book and handing it to them as I head to the bar.

"Folded napkins to look like deer!" they say loudly

As I headed to the kitchen and bar, the smell of food filling the air, I suddenly felt sick. I rushed to the nearest bathroom barely making it over the toilet before I started to puke.

"Jason! Jason hurry! Tera's puking!" someone yells.

What is happening.. my body.. something feels.. different. Soon enough I'm being lifted off the floor and carried to my room. My head pounding. I was sat in my bed just as a maid ran in.

"Mr. Rhodes is on his way"

"alright." Jason says

Once Mr. Rhodes got here it took me a while to convince him that I was fine only to have Jason snitch on me for barely eating leading to Mr. Rhodes lecturing me about how important eating is.. this continued until Mr. Rhodes took over, ordering me to eat and rest.

It's been two days since I started puking and my body still feels different. The smell of most foods make me nauseous, my body is sore, and I'm tired more than normal..It's my day off so I decided to try and rest.. Then..

"we're leaving tonight"

"But.. I thought we needed to completely heal first.."

" it's not ideal but we can't stay here any longer."

"we won't make it out like this"

"we must. we don't have a choice"

I couldn't understand why she was being like this, especially since she insisted we stayed until we were healed.. what happened next was unexpected.. I never saw it coming..

"We have to leave.. it's the only way to save these people.. ourselves.. and more importantly ...our pup."

.. And what little bit was left of my world.. crashed. My air escaping my lungs leaving me gasping for breath, her words sinking in like rocks sink into a pond, Everything suddenly becomes darker.. hotter.. as if the world was set aflame with a fire that can never die.. a fire created by the monster that is my father.. everything changed in the blink of an eye as the reality that would change my world forever finally set in..

...I'm pregnant.