A five-year-old Ray was crying when suddenly a tall and big man harshly grabbed her arm. She let out a gasp, she felt a familiar fear that she thought she wouldn't feel anymore. The man looked at her annoyed with a scowl on his face as he dragged her along. It was a face she never wanted to see anymore, the man who proclaimed himself as her mother's lover and her stepdad who always beats her mother whenever she ignores him or fight him back.
"Your weak and useless mother died and left me a useless trash like you!" She flinched and whimpered when his grip on her arm tightened. She wanted to hit him. She badly wants to beat him up but the fear is swallowing her up making her body not listen to her. She suddenly felt like being thrown toward a group of men and saw her step-father receiving a handful amount of money before leaving her. She was crying as she was being carried by one of the men over his shoulder.
"No!! Wait! Don't leave me! Please—"