Lina's Nightmare
That morning Lina thought it would be one of the best days of her life. It turned out to be the worst. It all started while she was changing and her little sister Rina barged in. "What's wrong with your back?" Rina asked her sister.
"Nothing!" Lina threw on a sweater. "Leave me alone!"
"What happened to your head?" Rina screamed. Lina realized that her headband was not on and the bumps were bigger.
"Nothing! Forget about it!" Lina said.
"What's going on?" Lina's mother walked in. "Oh my god what happened?"
"Nothing!" Lina shouted. "It's just a pimple! Or two…"
"Those aren't pimples!" Rina shouted. "She's got stuff on her back too!"
"No I don't!" Lina said. "It's just a rash!"
"I'll be the judge of that," Lina's mother took her by the shoulders and looked under her sweater. "What happened to you?"
"It's just a rash!" Lina protested.
"But that isn't!" Her mother screamed at her forehead. That was when her father ran in.
"WHAT THE DEVIL IS THAT ON YOUR HEAD?" Her father screamed.
"They're just pimples!" Lina tried to explain them.
"PIMPLES DO NOT LOOK LIKE THAT!" He shouted. "DON'T LIE TO ME!"
"Look its not so bad…" Lina protested. "I saw this doctor. He said he'd help me and…"
"You told someone?" Her mother screamed. "How could you do this to us?"
"But I…" Lina started to gag. Lina then threw up a shot of string substance from her mouth.
"Oh my god!" Rina screamed.
"Honey get the children out of the house!" Her father shouted. Her mother shooed them away. "You lying little…" He slapped her hard.
Lina was stunned. Her father had never hit her in her life. "Father I…"
"Don't you Father me you freak!" He shouted as he tried to clean the string off of him. "What did you do to me?"
"I couldn't help it! I…" Lina protested. She was slapped again.
"I gave you a good home, good schools and tutors, good clothes and this is how you repay me?" He shouted grabbing her roughly and dragging her through the halls.
"Father please!" Lina protested. "You're hurting me!"
"GET IN THERE!" Her father shoved her down the basement. He locked the door behind her.
Lina started to sob. She could hear her parents arguing and yelling at each other. She pulled her legs close to her chest. She looked up and noticed a small window on top of the basement. Something deep inside her told her to get out and fast. So she began to stack the boxes in order to reach it. One way or another she had to get out.
