I coughed mucus and blood.
The nurse Sera cleaned my face gently. "don't panic, this is due to the inflammation".
A smile rested on Sera's face as she hummed and tidied my space.
She headed to the window and opened the curtains allowing the soft sun of autumn to shower my paralysed body.
"That witchy aunt of yours always leaving you in dark to suffocate. Daylight should enter your room daily or you rot".
I laughed mentally, amused by Sera. I gazed at her with a happy look in my eyes despite the discomfort in my throat and chest.
Sera sat on my bed after she finished and picked a bowl of steaming soup. "Today's menu is pumpkin cream soup".
Sera turned the TV on Naruto. The pumpkin soup smelled and tasted heavenly. She knew my favourites well.
Call me creepy but I relished in the vibes of autumn and Halloween be it the skulls, ghosts, and roses or the candles, creamy cinnamon drinks, and pumpkin desserts.
After helping me down the soup and medicine Sera left me to relax and complete my show.
She was my only friend in this life.
This isn't the first time my lungs inflamed heavily. It happens when I'm exposed to stress.
Stress is poisonous to the body and mind. That's what Sera says. In warmer weather, she would air my room and even put me in a wheelchair to stroll me into the hospital garden.
Watching Naruto was something fun that didn't require someone to help me do such as eating, bathing, etc. It helps me forget my pain.
I also related to Naruto Uzumaki.
Sometimes I wished I could live with naruto and love him when nobody did.
To be there at his worst times when nobody was.
The door to my room opened and closed halting my thoughts. The clicking of heels entered my ears.
An obnoxiously strong perfume irritated my lungs.
It's my auntie or rather the witch.
"Hmph back to this silly cartoon you watch?" my auntie snorted.
I kept my stare on my show trying to ignore her as she spat additional bitter words, it's a daily routine at this point.
"You're weak and useless just like your mother. Always sick and in the bed or wheelchair. Pathetic".
Her sinister face blocked my vision of Naruto. She stared with eyes so evil it sent shivers to my core.
Aunt grabbed the pillow from under my head. Her cold fingers caressed my cheek roughly digging her nail into my flesh.
She never had the confidence to touch my body before me. What is she doing? I don't understand.
"My sweet Grace. I no longer have money to support you. I'll just end your misery here".
What?
My eyes widened in realisation. She wants to murder me for real and in the hospital too?!
Tears left my eyes as I helplessly stared at the pillow lower to my face.
This can't be real.
I gasped suffocating in the pillow as she squished it in my face. How useless I truly am. Unable to defend me.
How cruel can a person become to take advantage of my physical disabilities?
Someone help me! Sera.
My weak lungs burned unable to function anymore.
I died. Murdered by my own family.
I knew my hospital bills were expensive but my parents were sweet to me. They bought me tons of naruto merchandise and told me all about their day-to-day life.
That's until they died in a car accident a week ago.
I was thrown on my aunt to care for me throughout the week.
But the gentle aunt I loved my whole life changed. Instead stood a devil disguised in her form.
"I killed your parents. And soon your turn is coming. I'll figure out a way to get that inheritance".
That's the first thing she said to me the moment I received the news of my parent's death.
She intentionally abused and stressed me knowing it damages my body. She wished for me to die every day of my life.
Ever since she dropped the news I went in shock and my lungs almost failed that day. It was some type of miracle that allowed me to survive.
My aunt didn't feel guilt for murdering my innocent parents in fact, without shame she threatened me.
I didn't deserve this.
My parents didn't deserve this.
Had I not been ill my whole life I wouldn't have been a burden.
I wish I wasn't born... Maybe then my parents would have been happy instead of miserable over my condition.
What do you think about this chapter?
The next chapter starts our naruto story. This chapter was an introduction to our main character Grace.
Have a nice day.