Hello everyone! Just a short little one!

Enjoy!

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"Lenalee, you're such a pretty girl. Your hair looks so nice, your face so sweet and beautiful. Such a pretty girl."

She shouldn't be covering her face with her hands and the sound of these words. She shouldn't be crying because she thinks it isn't true.

She should be happy.

But it isn't the words she doesn't like, it's the person. The towering snake like man that dominates her life; she's a bird in a cage in his home. She cannot escape from his hands, his presence. They're there.

She tries to look away from him when he beds her. She tries to close her eyes.

She envisions herself as a different girl. She sees a girl that is loved, a girl with a family, not a girl who lives with a monster. She sees the nice little home that she would live in. She sees the mother she would have, the father. The little family dog that she would play with, she sees the little kitchen where all of them would eat meals and laugh at stories father would tell when he got back from work every day. She sees a life with friends and going to school. She sees everything that she once had.

Everything that was taken away from her.

"Such a pretty girl." Caress her face.

And she's dancing in her mind. She's dancing in a field full of flowers and grass. The sun shines brightly and there's wind.

It's like a Disney movie.

"Such a pretty girl." Touch her hair.

She cannot deny the mustache that prickles her face every time he gets near. She wants to push him away because she's disgusted.

He's disgusting.

When she can make her mind's theater continue no longer, she tries as hard as she can not to focus on the reality that is now thrusting him upon her. The lovely red, velvet curtains in her brain are fading.

He is inside her and it makes her feel worse than scum. Not because he is here, but because for a second, she could almost be enjoying it.

"I love you so much." His mouth is close to her ear.

"If you love me so much," She turns her head away from him. "Why won't you let me go?"

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I really oughta be Beta-ing someone's story, but this is for practice.