Let them off

"She behaves weird lately, I'm beginning to get scared of her", said Amara, she was kind of shaking. She is sweet at first glance but knew how to get her way with things. She had brown curly hair which falls on her shoulder and makes her a bit matured. "Why?" Lucy asked obviously irritated by what her sister said. She couldn't swallow the fact that she was kind of scared as well, but all she could do was act a bit braver than her younger sister.

"We're still in control even if she tries to act aggressive with us, all we just have to do is endure a bit before mom comes back", Lucy tried consoling and calming down her sister by stroking her hair and back repeatedly. Lucy is two years older than Amara, she would turn seventeen in three months time, she also has brown hair but had been cut short, she often dyes her hair just to look different from her sister and hence the cutting of the hair. The sisters were behaving as if they had seen a ghost, but they would have been relieved if it was really like that. 'They wished'.

Meanwhile in another part of the house a frail girl was lying on top of her bed tearing her eyes out as if there was no tomorrow. She laid on the bed thinking about how much she had endured after the passing of her lovely mother. Her mom was so good to her but now her life has turned upside down. Even though her father is still alive and kicking, "huh", she sighed,' my father never thought about me after the death of my mother, he treats me like a common slave from the sixteenth century, he does not allow me to defend myself even when he knows I'm being wronged ', she raised her head, her face looking pale from crying so much, she looked into a broken mirror hanging on the wall and smirked. Her face, her body everything about her looked dangerous, she could freeze someone to death, if the two sisters were to see the look on her face, they would order for a coffin and bury themselves before their mom would arrive. " I won't let them off this time, they would not enjoy till the end, their cup is almost full" . She recited her words as if she was talking to someone. "I ,Keisha Flares, would not be bullied again, even if it means I would have to reveal my true self."

Keisha had a special gift ever since she was born, the color of her eyes change depending on her mood, for example if she was sad, it would change to green, when happy blue, when angry red. From birth till seven months, it turned to green and blue only, which made her father confused of the exact color of his baby's eyes, at her birth, he was a little scared and thought his wife wanted him raise another man's child as his own, but he remembered vividly he was the first man in her life and even that was after marriage. He had pushed that thought aside knowing it was definitely impossible. He started getting used to her change of eyes.

Keisha's original colour of eyes is dull black and with her crescent eyes shape made her look adorable especially when she opens her eyes from sleep. After seven months from birth, her eyes started changing to red too, which showed slight anger. She couldn't be angry like an adult so it showed light red before it started with full red like blood.

The rate at which her eyes changed was so alarming that her mother could not leave her in the care of anybody. So at the age of two, she was made to wear dark spectacle, she only took it off when alone or with her parent. Her mother made all sort of excuses to others especially the family of her husband. They were very lucky to have had their own place after marriage after the pressure from her husband's mum to stay in the Flares mansion.(We'll talk about her later).

Keisha walked out of her room which was originally a store room converted into a maid's room by her stepmother, her eyes were so red without the spectacle , and she was moving towards the hall where her two stepsisters were.....