3 years ago:
3 years ago:A young girl of 6 made her way home from school. She was wearing a traditional dark blue dress that went down to her knees. She had black hair that was at shoulder length. She was also clutching a backpack adorned proudly with the All That Remains logo.
"Freak!" Yelled a young boy of a similar age. The girl ignored the taunts coming from this boy and his friends.
"Weirdo!" Shrieked another girl. The girl looked at her.
"Oh no the freak looked at me!" Screamed the other girl in delight as laughter filled the vicinity.
"What are you gonna try next, Lucy? Are you gonna summon the boogeyman?" Taunted that boy.
"No I think that boogeyman you'll find is actually her mother." Said that girl again which was quickly followed by a chorus of ooohs and then laughter.
For Lucy, this happens everyday. She is used to it, though it gets gradually worse with every passing day.
Lucy continued walking home regardless of the unwanted attention she was receiving. The bullies had now started pelting her with cans and coins. Lucy just continued to ignore them. She had finally reached her home providing safe haven for her from the bullies. Or so you'd think. Lucy entered her house and her mother was sat at the table in the kitchen. She completely ignored Lucy as Lucy walked past her. Lucy made her way upstairs and into her room where she immediately opened the CD space on her boom box whereupon she placed her All That Remains album This Darkened Heart. Then to her it seemed like bliss as she sat on her bed and chilled as the metal music played out loud from her boom box. Lucy lay on her bed as she could finally relax. Or so she thought. See, Lucy and her mother have never been on the best of terms and today was no exception.
"Lucy turn that shit off!" Her mother yelled up the stairs. Lucy ignored her mum completely and continued listening to her music.
"Lucy did you hear what I said you little bitch?" Her mother shouted from the stairs.
"Fuck you!" Lucy retorted maliciously.
"What did you say?" Her mother asked with her voice sounding much angrier than before.
"I said fuck you!" Lucy replied again sounding harsh. Her mother went away into the kitchen as Lucy continued lying back on her bed.
Then her mother burst through her bedroom door with a flick knife in her hand. Lucy looked up in shock at her mother. Then she looked at the flick knife, sat up on her bed and cowered in the corner of it.
"Please I'm sorry…" Lucy said panicking.
"To late now you little bitch!" retorted her mother. Lucy looked panicked and her mother could see her frightened look in her eyes. Her mother wore an evil looking smile on her face.
"Why do you never talk?" taunted Lucy's mother. Lucy burst into tears as she looked at her seemingly crazed mother.
"Are we crying now?" taunted Lucy's mother.
"Please…" Lucy pleaded.
"I told you Lucy, it's too late!" yelled her mother.
"No…" Lucy cried as her mother swiped at her with the flick knife. It slashed across Lucy's right lower arm just under her elbow, leaving an angry looking slash. It was the latest addition to Lucy's many scars on both her arms and legs. Blood started making its way down her arm and dripping onto her bed. Her mother smirked as she walked out of the room, leaving Lucy to tend to her wound as she cried her eyes out.
Lucy had now had enough. After years of abuse at home and at her school, Lucy had finally decided that she cannot take it anymore. So she hopped out of her bed and picked up her favourite bag, the one adorned with the All That Remains logo. Her heart had been broken for many years through this abuse.
Lucy picked up her CDs, her walkman and her mp3 player and put them in her bag. Her cut still pumping blood down her now numb and weakened right arm and stained the carpet underneath her. Lucy put her pillow and her duvet cover in her bag along with her favourite doll which she calls Alissa.
After she finishes gathering her belongings with them safely in her bag, Lucy exits her bedroom for the last time. She made her way downstairs into the kitchen where her mum was washing Lucy's blood off of her flick knife. Lucy looked at her mother through her teary and frightened looking eyes as Lucy's sister Mia walked through the door. The eight year old immediately looked at Lucy's arm which still pumped out blood down her arm leaving a blood trail behind her.
Lucy looked at Mia with her blue eyes before she looked back at her mother before she left the house, leaving her cut exposed hoping someone would see the hell she was going through. However no one did. Lucy slipped off into the woods near the village of Kurokomuzai where she lived and no one has seen her since……
2 Days Later:
"……..As Lucy has now been missing for two days now. Her mother Francine has stated that her sister Mia and brother Louis have been missing her a lot. She also stated it is not the same at home without Lucy. She was last seen wearing a blue dress, clutching a black bag with the metal band All That Remains' logo on it, one of her favourite musicians. She was also seen with a cut on her arm just under the elbow, something Francine said was an accident in the kitchen. Although Lucy is missing, sources say the six year old has not been abducted." Blared the TV news reporter as the news of Lucy's disappearance was fast traveling around the world.
1 year later:
"…..It has been a whole year today since young Lucy's disappearance. Today marks the first anniversary of the now would be seven year olds' disappearance. It is becoming increasingly unlikely that Lucy will be found alive. Her mother Francine and her sister Mia and brother Louis are desperate for her to return home safe and well." Blared the same news reporter on the anniversary of Lucy's disappearance the year before. The entire world anxious to know on her well being.