Doomed
Chapter 1
It was late at night when Eva was returning home from her club activities. She was in her senior year and next year she will be an adult which she had waited to be all her life. As she was thinking about the things she will do once she became an adult her run-down phone started to ring and a smile bloomed on her face.
"Yes I am almost home don't worry," said Eva to her best friend Melissa in short Mell.
"Well, what can I do other than worrying about your stupid self....who would practice till 8 PM...and in that spooky Swimming pool" Mell grumbled she always thought something was not right with her best friend Eva because even though they knew each other for so many years but still she could not guess what went in her head of her's.
"Hahaha" Eva laughed when she heard Mell's complaint once again about Eva practicing till late at night.
"I did not realize it was so late you know I lose the sense of time when I am underwater," Eva said in her defense, she loved to water the most. She couldn't explain but it made her relax and forget about her worries, it made her feel like she was free.
"That's why you have me your loyal friend," Mell said and Eva smiled at her witty comment.
"Yes that I have, ok bye I will see you at school tomorrow," Eva said as she was about to reach home and she did not wish Mell to hear anything, as she knew there was no peace in her house and once Mell heard something she knew it would lead to a chain of questions. Which Eva never wanted to share, they might have been friends since Middle school but Mell still did not have any idea what kind of hell Eva lived in, What Eva appreciated about their friendship was Mell always being considerate of her and never asking her the questions which will be heard for her to answer and even more than once she had shut the people around Eva from asking to many questions.
If it was not for Mell, Eva would be a complete loner in her Middle and even her senior high.
"Ok see you tomorrow bye," Mell said and Eva disconnected the call.
Eva looked up at the brightest moon she saw in the last few days. It shines so much and looks so pretty but all Eva felt was endless pain and suffering, she had cried many times at night infront of this same moon begging to be saved by someone anyone, to end this hellish life but no one heard her silent cries all that was there was a scream, beating, and strong alcohol stench.
It was a bit colder than before it felt like Winter came early and Eva shivered a little when the wind blew up her hairs, she was wearing her jeans and run down sneakers along with a very old looking coat which did nothing to help her warm up a little. Even though they were really poor but still Eva held a lot of self-respect and started doing a part-time job to help herself with her school fee and all. Her mom also did many odd jobs like cleaning up in someone's house and stitching clothes for others. Eva wanted to help her mother as much as she could, that was the reason she never asked for much from her parents or maybe because she already knew that they were not capable of buying those expensive clothes which other girls in her class wore or able to provide for her college in future.
Eva had a good look but she was too skinny and looked like a malnutrition patient and her small face was always covered with her red fire like hairs. she had an unusual color of hair and it was the reason, she had been bullied a lot since kindergarten, she came from a poor family, was not easy to communicate with, so her homeroom teacher never favored her either, they looked at her like a dirty little thing, she was one of the top students and that was the reason she was able to go to the school because she was given the full scholarship rest of her expense she took care of with her part-time jobs. Eva shook her and started walking again toward her house, even though she did not want to but she had no place to go other than that and she was still a minor so, she could not be able to leave this hell and also because her mother would be left alone with that demon. Who terrorized their day and nights.
Eva just pressed the bell when the door opened suddenly by some strange looking man and she felt her feet sway a little because what waited for her inside the house was her crying mother and beaten to pulp father and those bulky looking man staring at her like she was their prices money.
Eva's innocent eyes searched for her mother for help, for answers but she saw the helplessness in them and instantly knew that they were doomed and this time they might as well die by the hand of those scary-looking people. All because of her father, because it was sure who they came here for and it was not her but her father, who might have taken a loan once again for his alcohol and gambling. Eva knew she needed to call for help because these people were not scared of the police but they did not like to draw attention toward them.
Before Eva could scream or do anything else she was pulled inside the house and her cry for help was muffled inside that totally messed up the house, which had nothing in the name of furnished but whatever they had was also broken down by the guys who right now acquired her house as their own place.
Eva was scared s**t less she knew what these guys meant, it meant his father gambled once again and they were here to collect the money which Eva was pretty sure they did not have because whatever Eva earned went for her school supplies and other things and what her mother earned barely covered their house expenses.
"Don't touch my daughter..get away from her" Eva's mother Shelly cried out in desperation. She was praying inside that her daughter would never come home because if she did she would be implicated by all of this...her prayers went to a deaf ear once again no matter how much she wanted to protect her baby she was not good enough and strong enough to do it. today she had seen the true horror with her eyes these people were not those thugs which came in their house time to time but today something was not right about these people Shelly felt it in her bones and it was the reason she wanted to alert her daughter but these people kept a close watch on her and had beaten down her husband as soon as they came in. they were talking something which she did not understand but her heart said it was not something good and she needed to keep Eva away from all of this.
"Hahaha get away from her?" One of them asked he had a cut on his left cheek which made him look even more sinster when he smiled looking at Shelly and then went to Eva.
Eva has felt her heart sink to her stomach she felt the horror for what was about to come in her bones but no matter what no voice came out of her mouth it was like she was mute and had no voice. Whereas Shelly ran to her daughter but was held by those men and could not help but try to wiggle out of their grasp and see that man bend infront of her daughter. Eva wanted to move back but her legs were cemented.
"Let her go, it has nothing to do with her"Shelly shouted but what came in response was laughter echo in the dark night and their helpless cry.
"Did your husband not tell you that he had already sold her to us?" Said the man with a scar and Shelly sucked in the breath and looked at the man like she had seen a ghost and Eva felt her body going numb.
Her father sold her....her father sold her...
These words kept repeating themselves in her head. His father did not love her, he always abused her shouted at her sometimes he would beat her down but still he was her father. Everyone talked about how great their father was it was only her who never talked, everyone. just assumed she was also privileged like them but the reality was far from it.
EVA's innocent eyes looked at her father in a hope that whatever these men said was not right but what she saw was a coward in a corner looking at her like it was all her mistake, all these things were happening because of her, was her own mistake and not his, he had always looked at her with those eyes filled with deep hatred like he hated her mere existence, she had known he did not love her but still, she thought as she was his own child he would have held some kind of warmth in his heart for her but how wrong she was, this man never thought of her as his child but she was just a liability, a black spot someone kind of abomination which he wanted to get rid off.