Breaking Free.
Chapter 3
She remembered her whole life.
Never had she seen an easy way out of anything, so she walked down the road with jagged rocks and poisonous snakes and tried to forget the danger of falling down.
When she was a child, they were poor, barely having enough to survive.
It was looking up for a while when her father got a job, having more money around was nice.
But when he got fired, he became violent.
FLASHBACK
She stumbled inside the big police building. There were barely any people around since it was so late, but no one seemed to notice her.
She pushed open the door, leaving a bloody handprint on the window.
Her arm was broken she was sure, but she had to do this. Had to because she knew it would only get worse, and she couldn't let that happen.
Her black hair was streaked with dirt and blood but she didn't notice.
She stumbled forward, forcing herself to keep her eyes open.
She had to get help.
Finaly she was there, and she grabbed onto the counter, her blue eyes pleadding with the person on the other side who dropped the phone and was stairing at her in shock.
"Please.." She coughed, covering her mouth with her hand and watching blood drip from her mouth. "You have to help me. I think he's going to kill everyone this time."
Everything felt dizzy and she was loosing the battle.
She only saw people scurry closer before everything faded to black.
End FLASHBACK
They put him in jail, though he still threated to come after everyone when he got out.
Her mother and brother had been terrified, though she didn't much care for the promises of a madman.
Her teenage years hadn't been any easier. Besided the normal worries of school and friends, she had a few other issues.
FLASHBACK
"Soo..." The doctor drawled, scribbling non-sence on his important looking pad of paper. Briefly his eyes shot up to make contact with the patient before dropping back down to the almost ilegible scribbles on the paper. "What are you here for today?"
Kagome rolled her eyes.
Her mother put a hand on her shoulder and tried to nervously explain. "We have a bit of a ..skin problem."
"Really?" the doctor looked up again, looking over Kagomes face. "I don't see much. And even if there are a few things, I'm sure they'll go away with time. Nothing to worry about."
Kagome wasn't going to take that as an answer. "No listen to me you stupid man, why you don't see much, i don't know, maybe you're senile, or maybe you're just an idiot. I have about 25 layers of make - up pancaked on my face right now, and you can still see something, so that clearly isnt a good sign. I don't have time to wait for it to go away, I've waited for 3 years, and it's still here. If you hose me down right now, I wouldn't even look human anymore, so I'd say we have a problem."
Her mother laughed nervously behind her daughter. "She's just kidding..."
"I'm totaly serious."
End FLASHBACK
It took a while, but after that, life was somewhat normal. She went to highschool, she got average grades.
She was slowly fading. And she hated how normal everything was.
So she did something rather strange.
She moved out of her house, gother own little studio appartment.
She dropped out of highschool and got a low wage job.
She found a cute boy to date, and he became her first target.
With time, she became good at what she did.
He was her practice toy, she played around, found out what to do, and how to do it.
The game of seduction was a complicated one.
But she loved it. Loved the power, the control. Loved that she was pulling the strings, and no one could beat her at her own game.
She picked the one's that she knew she wouldn't fall for, one's she could control.
But one day, she made a mistake.
FLASHBACK
He had black hair, and blue eyes that could match her own. Perfect nose and pouty lips that would look strange on a guy, but suited him perfectly. She saw him from across the club, and his eyes caught her own.
He smirked, she grinned right back.
She though she just found her next target.
It was a perfect beggining.
He walked over and was her knight in shinning armour for the rest of the night as she lost herself in the beat of the music and the feel of his arms around her.
The nights were even better, while she was good, he was better.
She should've wondered, but she didn't care.
She was already falling.
End FLASHBACK
She didn't realise they were both playing the same game until he decided he was bored of her. He dumped her with all the desency of a broken piece of china.
Heartless. He was absolutely heartless, and his deep blue eyes that used to reflect a whole sea behind them, now reflected a shallow puddle.
She stopped playing her games, stopped caring, and feeling.
Her emotions were locked deep, deep down.
It was easier to live life unfeeling, then drown in your own pain.
It helped, of course, that when she tried to die, she lost her memory instead.
She saw the car before it saw her, and she dived for it.
Ever since then, her past was just a pleasant blur, and the future was painless. Every now and then, little pieces of her life came back, and she remembered her childhood, her mother and brother. One day she remembered her father breaking out of prison and killing them both. He was killed too. And she had no one left.
She didn't want to remember what made her so hopeless, all she knew was that true love didn't exist.
Neither did perfect people.