The Time Has Come for the Truth

Chapter One

Take Away My Pain

Disclaimer: I do not own the property of HP.

Summary: Hermione Granger has been keeping a dark secret for years. This fic is mostly filled with poems . . . Which I will be writing. If you don't like stories with poems and stories that don't spend much time on the detail of it all, I recommend you to just read the poems or to not read at all.

Please Daddy dear

Just listen to me

Cut all the act

Just let me be

Let go of all the abuse

Never lie and cheat again

What you did, you can't undo

All the pain I have, stays within

Please Mommy dearest

Just listen to me

Cut all the act

Just let me be

Turn away from this house

Take away all your lies

Carry away all your pain

You've hidden inside

Let me hold onto all I need

Let me sleep with pleasant dreams

Turn me away from all the evil

Take me where angels gleam and scream

I wanna be free from all the lies

All the days I hear Mommy's cries

Wanna turn away from this house

Turn away from all the shame inside

-Me

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"Hermione?"

"Uh-yeah Harry?" The pretty witch smiled at her friend.

"You're day dreaming again."

"I know."

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"Wake up!"

"I'm coming," grumbled Hermione pushing the blankets away.

"I've been waiting ten minutes already for breakfast! Get your lazy fatass up young lady."

"I said I'm coming," she shot back putting on her slippers and closing the door.

"Yeah, you say you're coming. Huh, you're so slow. Go on already. Your mother's downstairs waiting," her father said following his daughter closely from behind.

"Shut up! Why don't you ever try and make a decent meal for a change anyhow! You're always complaining! Do you think I care!"

"That's it young lady! You need to learn how to keep your mouth shut . . ."

"Uh-oh," thought Hermione. Why did she always have to be so cranky in the mornings? Why couldn't she ever keep her mouth shut like her mother? Well in some ways, she was just like her father . . .

Her father had finished undoing his belt and went flying towards Hermione's back with it.

"I'm not done with you yet! Come back HERE!" he roared running after the girl.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" she bellowed, ducking form his attack. But Hermione wasn't so lucky, the belt just barely touched her bare back, and at the same moment she went crashing down the stairs.

"Ahh!" Hermione screamed, both from the pain and the trouble that awaited her at the bottom of the stairs.

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You'll never know how it's like to be me

To live in my body and barely breathe

From all the debris kept in my life

I have to stay fit, I've got to make it right

I don't know the changes that happen everyday

For me time flies, but the pain won't go away

To smile would be exposing my secrets

All my fear and the pain, it just drives me insane

Take away my pain

All the tears that I'vd cried

Heal my wounds and the hurt

I've kept all inside

Each day is hard to get by

I have to live with the torment inside

The fear, it's killing me with all the lies

Just let me be, just let me be free

I don't wanna be the girl

Who everybody pities and feels sorry for

I don't wanna be the one

Who gets stuck committing suicide

I just wanna be the girl I am

To smile and laugh

I wanna to be happy

I wanna be happy

Take away my pain

All the tears that I've cried

Heal my wounds and the hurt

I've kept all inside

How hard is it for everyone to see

I bet millions of people just wanna be

They wanna be free

But they live with imperfections

(Just like me)

Take away my pain

All the tears that I've cried

Heal my wounds and the hurt

I've kept all inside

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"Hermione!" yelled an anxious voice. "Are you alright?"

"Who said that?"

"Oh, Hermione!"

The middle-aged woman raced over to her child sprawled at the bottom of the stairs. She looked at Hermione and asked quietly. "Did your father do this?"

Hermione, too weak, just nodded her head. She felt the pain from the fall come over her head, her legs, and her back.

"I'm sorry honey, but-"

"Ellen, what have I told you?!" thundered a male voice from up over their heads. "The girl will fix our breakfast! Sit your tired ass down and let the girl be."

Hermione's father then got a glimpse of Hermione who tried to get up, with some cuts on her from the fall.

"See what you made me do!" he sneered at her. "You better wash up later cause I need my proper breakfast. NOW!" And with that his stomach growled loudly, loud enough for all to hear.

"Okay, I'm going," Hermione said standing up awkwardly. Her mother smiled awkwardly at her, shrugging, her shoulders going up and down.

Hermione didn't care, that was how her mother was, and that was how she'd always be.

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When I look at your face

All I can see is the pain

Your eyes hold no warmth

To me you're insane

I can't tell if your lying

Your face is covered with a mask

To me you're not even trying

How am I supposed to react

For you days go by

They mean nothing to you

Just another day accomplished

And then maybe two

I can't remember the mom that I knew

She was younger and stronger, unlike you

She was wise and was tough

Able to beat all the boys up

Although she smiled and she'd score

While all this happened her dreams went out the door

Everything's been changing

All I ever knew of the past

It seems someone's effaced it

For me nothing will ever last

AN: Please r & r! Should I focus more on writing the story? Do you mind if I mix poetry with this. Tell me what you think.

And yeah, I didn't want to post this until later, but I've been tempted. :)