Chapter 3: Past Tense


The perfect floor. The perfect house. The two laughing adults. The butler smiling at the family. A young girl playing with a toy set. And, a newborn baby girl. A little redhead. With beaming green eyes staring up at her mother. Her arms reached up to reach her mother's face. Her father, sat quietly, chuckling at his daughters.

No. No. That couldn't be the pain. No. It was a different memory that brought the heart wrenching pain. It was the same family. But. No. It couldn't be. The little redhead sat in a corner, shaking and crying. Her father smacking his daugher. The daughter screaming. No. It wasn't the same family. It was different. The love had melted away.

"You can't keep doing this, Ethel!" A big man whipped his nine year old daughter. "You stupid girl!"

No. She's not stupid.

Ethel was tutored by her father. She failed on, yet another test. No.

The redhead. She couldn't do anything. She was at the mere age of four. No. Stop it.

"Da... Daddy... Daddy. Stop." She tried standing up. She fell back down, afraid of her father. Or was it her father? The one who chuckled at her newborn face just years ago, was that him? It was too much to comprehend.

Ethel screamed at her sister. Telling her to do something. She couldn't move. Ethel's sister poured out tears.

She laid down in the grass clenching herself, tightly.

"Sister. I'm sorry. I just don't know what to do!" She shut her eyes and took heavy breaths. She wrapped her arms around her chilled body, and sat on her knees. She opened her eyes in a slow motion, and stared at her breath coming out of her pale lips.

"Excuse me, Madam." The young girl looked up, and a devilish smile stared back. A slender man, dressed head to toe in black stood before her. He bowed down, and protruded his hand, to the girl's face.

"It is quite cold outside. May I take you inside?" The girl took the skinny man's hand and was pulled up off the ground. The man opened a door, and in they went. Into Ciel Phantomhive's great room.

And let me say. It was really great.