Chapter 4: Step father
(Vicky is nine in this chapter.)
This has been a terrible week, and last thing I was expecting or needed when I walked into my mother's house was for a strange guy to be sitting at the kitchen table. My mother(who I now call the bitch woman) looked at me with her cold evil eyes and said,"This is Dicky your new step father."
Oh boy. This can not be good. He turned and looked at me and I knew I was right. He looked at me in the same way that the bitch woman does. Well I guess I'll just call him the bitch man then.
"It's supper time." The bitch woman says. I walk over to the table and sit down and wait for the food to cool off. Once it's cool I take a bite. I frowned because it didn't taste right. I suddenly felt light headed. I stood up and ran upstairs to my room and opening up my satchel, grabbed a cure poison potion and drank it. I felt better instantly. I knew something was wrong with that food. The bitch woman had tried to poison me. I went back down the stairs looked the bitch woman right in the eye said,"Fuck you!" And ran out the door before she or her new husband could say anything.
They'll beat me next time I'm over there but it doesn't matter, they would beat me no matter what I do. Anyway I refuse to stay the night over there anymore. I'm too scared that the bitch woman will try to kill me in my sleep.
As I'm walking I walk past Garrett the bully who glares and me and yells,"Bastard." His friends laugh and join in calling me bastard and a bunch of other words I don't know the meaning of.
I sighed and continued walking. Most of the kids here make fun of me. My friends and a couple of other kids are the only ones that don't. Garrett the bully is the worst. He's not as bad now though since I apparently attacked him when I snapped last year. If I walk by him when he's alone he won't talk to me, but if he's with a group of people he is the same as he's always been.
Instead of going back to the sanctuary where the rest of my family is I decided to walk. And so I walked and walked and walked.
After awhile I sit down on top of a hill and cry. It feels like that's all I do when I'm alone. Once I'm done crying I stand up and walk to the tree house. I sigh in relief when I see that no one is there. I lie down on the floor and close my eyes. When I open them again it's morning. Standing up I stretch and climb out of the tree house.
I shiver in the cool morning air. Pretty soon it will be Frostfall and even colder. I starting walking back to Cheydinhal as fast as I can. When I get there I start on my way to the sanctuary. I'm about half way there when to my horror I run into the bitch woman. When she sees me she grabs me by my hair and snares,"To the house. Now!"
"Ugh why can't others be around now?" I think to myself. It's still early so no one else is up and around outside yet. She wouldn't dare act like this in front of her friends. I hold my breath and try not to scream as she dangs me by my hair. Once we get to the house she throws open the door and storms in slamming the door behind her. She lets go of my hair and hits me so hard over the head that I see stars.
"Dicky!" She calls behind her.
I try to stand up as I hear the bitch man coming. I'm half way on my feet when the bitch woman punches me in the gut. When I cry out in pain she laughs. "Thought you could get away did you stupid girl? Hehe. Think again."
The bitch man enters the room. The next thing I know I'm screaming as I feel more pain then I have ever felt in my entire life. I look up and gasp as I realize that he had clawed me in the stomach. "Awe is the ugly girl crying?' He asks mocking me.
I gasp in horror as I hadn't realized that I was crying. "What did I ever do to deserve this?" I think to myself as the two of them continue beating me. Soon after the pain becomes too much and I pass out.