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~ Chapter Six ~

~ "Somebody cries in the middle of the night." ~

The little girl bit down on her lip as she tried to look away from her mother, the woman was rocking back and forth in the corner of the room with a knife on the floor, blood dripping slowly onto the carpet. Sonny shuddered – blood had always reminded her of the first twelve years of her life.

She looked at her mum and shook her head, they had been free from the man who still tortured her in her sleep for eight months now and neither of them had spoken to each other about it, or about anything else.

She sighed and then shut her bedroom door, tears ran down her ghostly pale face as she slid against the door, wondering why her mum always hurt herself, wondering if it would work for her as well. She shook her head, she had enough pain in her life.

She thought she would be happy to get away from him but things were just as bad now, at school her peers would bully her and threaten her and at home her mother would sit in a corner of a room and rock herself back and forth as she cried – neither of them were ever the same.

Sonny bit down on her lower lip as she got her homework out of her school bag and started it on the floor, she didn't want mum to come into her room, she knew she had to barricade the door somehow.

She finally got up and looked at a photograph of her and her mum, the two of them had a black eye and a cut lip but they were smiling, but there was a secret there – it was in their eyes. She put it back down and climbed into her bed, wrapping herself up tight into the blanket. She wanted to be happy again but nothing was ever going to be right, nobody was ever going to love her.

She closed her eyes, only to be haunted by the words of everyone at school,

"Worthless."
"Loner."
"Stupid cow."
"Freak."

"Creep."
"Nobody is ever going to love you."
"Daddy's little demon."

She opened her eyes again when she felt her cheeks burn up in embarrassment as they always did when she even thought about the pain that seemed to have been inflicted upon her whole life. She wondered when her mum had stopped loving her as well, had it been when she had to be taken to hospital because her daddy hated her so much? Was it when she told the doctors that daddy had beaten her up so bad and he always did it?

She wanted her mum to love her again, she needed to be loved by someone.

Her mother had never been the same person since then, she wouldn't speak to anyone about it, she just shut down completely and nobody knew what to do about it. Sonny thought about what it would have been life if everything went according to plan – if she was happy and her mum was happy, if they were okay.

She closed her eyes again and bit down on her lip as she stopped the scream that was bubbling up inside of her, she wanted her mummy back.

~ .. ~

Connie rocked herself back and forth as she cried, she looked down at the blood that dripped from her arm and shook her head. She sighed when she realized she had been like this for the past eight months, she saw the look on her daughter's face when she had walked in, and she would never be able to forget it. So much pain, hurt...betrayal.

She cried out when she thought about how she had missed her own daughters birthday a few weeks ago, her darling little girl was thirteen now and she hadn't done anything about it.

She bit down on her lip, she would be lying if she said she had never noticed the tear tracks that ran down her daughters dirty face after school, she would be lying if she told someone that she didn't see the bruises on her tiny body even during the past eight months, she would be lying if she told anyone that she didn't see all her daughters bones when she noticed her getting changed in her room the other day.

She hated herself for letting him to do this to her, she shook her head and stood up, this was going to be the last time she let him win. She opened the door to Sonny's room, looking down at the floor when she saw the little girl asleep at just five in the afternoon. She walked up to her and smiled, smoothing a hair out of her face before bending down to kiss her gently on the cheek,

"I am going to get better for you baby girl, it's all going to be okay, I am going to make sure you have a life I have always wanted you to have." She whispered before walking out, grabbing the phone with a smile playing on her lips.

It was time to move on.

A/N: So now it's going to be Sonny and her mum moving and Sonny finally coming out of her depression, and Connie of course! And then there is about three more chapters till 'So Random!' and Channy and some twists in the story.

What happened to Chad when he was younger?

Who is Sonny going to turn to when things take a turn for the worst?

Review to find out!