Chapter 2 The Dreadful Life Begins

It's been a week since my parent's death. Everything was sold in the house to pay off debts they had and even the house. I now lived with a family who was also rich. But they weren't like my parents. They weren't even close to how my parents were. The mother was as mean as a wolf and the father was as strict as he can be. They had two kids. A girl named Meilin and a son named Syoaron. Meilin, she was just like her mother, a spoil brat who got everything her way. And Syoaron, I never spoke to him. He was never home anyways and every time I got yelled at he would just look at me and then walk off. He never laughed, but only stared.

Living here was hell. I had to do almost everything in this stupid house. I couldn't go out. I was "forbidden" to go out.

"Sakura, get your ass down here!"

"YEAH." I knew what she was going to ask me.

"Wash the dishes. Don't you know how to do anything in this house? I'm not going to feed you for free and just let you sit! HURRY UP!" It was true, even though we had no blood relationship, well actually we were strangers even when I first met them, they did provide the food and all, but I don't deserve this shit and she doesn't deserve to be called a mother. I rolled up my sleeves and went into the kitchen to wash the dishes, but it wasn't until I bumped into someone.

"CLANG" Something dropped. I looked up to whom I bumped into. My eyes widen in shock. Syoaron was in front of me and looking at me with such evilness that I was actually scared.

"I…I…am so sorry…I…SLAP" I was slapped with such impact that I was pushed against the wall. My right cheek stung like hell. Tears were starting to form in my eyes because of the pain. He looked at me one more time and then walked away leaving everything behind for me to clean up. What dropped was a glass cup.

"OH MY GOSH! WHAT DID YOU DROP? WHY IS THERE SUCH A BIG MESS IN MY HOUSE!" Mrs. Lee walked over to me and slapped me again where Syoaron had just slapped. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU! THE WAY YOU ARE PROBABLY KILLED YOUR PARENTS! ARE YOU SUCH A CARELESS CHILD?" She slapped me again. "Clean this mess up and do it fast!" She walked off.

I bended down to pick up the broken glass pieces as carefully as I could trying to not cut myself.

"Oh shit." I ran to the sink. As careful as I was I still cut myself. I rinsed my cut finger under the cold water. 'Mom, dad, are you looking down on me? Protecting me? Do you see what kind of life I have to go through everyday?' Unnoticeably tears started forming and even more tears started to fall than when I was slapped.

I finished picking the glass pieces and wrapped my finger in a band-aid. I started on the dishes.

"Hey wash this too." Meilin put another plate in the sink. Couldn't she do her own dishes? She's my age and all she does is sit around. But then again, I did live under their roof everyday and every night.

After the dishes were done I went up to my room to did my homework. School was going to end in 2 weeks and I was going to go to college soon. It was a good thing my parents saved me some money for college before they left me in this miserable world. When I finally was going to college, I wouldn't have to return to this hell hole anymore. I can live on my own and get a job and be freed from all evilness the Lee's might set upon me.

"Hey Sakura, how are you today?" Mindy came and asked. None of my friend knew what kind of people the Li's were. I never told them anything because even if I did I would just end up getting in even more trouble and they couldn't do anything about it at all either.

"Hey Tomoyo," I took a deep breath. "Doesn't it feel great to be outside in the warm spring air," I asked her closing my eyes.

"Yeah," she closed his eyes too and took a deep breath.

"Hey you dorks. What are you both doing?"

I opened my eyes and looked in front of me. "Hey Lynn. What are you doing? Wanna join?" I laughed at her.

"It's okay. I don't want to bare the embarrassments. I'll past." Lynn

"Lynn you're no fun. Come on. Take a deep breath in and out. Slowly though. Just like this." Tomoyo showed Lynn the embarrassment of a life time.

"You look funny. I'll still past." Tomoyo laughed and pushed a finger to her forehead. "Let's get to class." We all walked into the school and into our separate class rooms.

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