Chapter 5

After a while when Kayla had heard footsteps downstairs the two guys had started panicking for Kayla, worried that she might get in trouble because of them. Kayla was far from panicking and instead she had this really calm look on her face. "K! What should we do?" Cosmos whisper shouted at Kayla while she just calmly locked her room's door. "Both of you. Go hide in the closet." Kayla replied.

Both of them obeyed her and stayed put and after a few minutes they heard knocking and Kayla opening the door. "What are you doing?" A deep male voice questioned Kayla. "I was sleeping." Kayla replied plainly. "All you do is sleep. What are you going to do in your life? Do you want to end up like your parents? Your dad does nothing but drink day and night and your mom. Is she still in jail?" "Yes" "Look at that. Your mom gives birth like a dog and does all those bad things. And you're sleeping? How can you sleep at a time like this?" "Did you clean the house?" Her uncle's wife began. "Yes" "I don't think so. The house looks like a mess. Is this what you call as cleaning? I come home from a tiring day to clean up all again." The wife went away to her room after saying this. "What you do is sleep all day. Can't you just clean the house a little bit? What do you even do?" Kayla just stayed silent and after few more minutes of the same lecture he too left.

Kayla closed her room's door and locked it. Then she opened the closet door and asked Parker and Cosmos to come outside. Both of them did with silly little smiles plastered on their faces. "Why are you guys smiling?" Kayla asked them. "Well firstly it's good for your health and secondly our faces looks like this all the time so if you want to blame anyone. Blame our moms for making us like this." Cosmos replied while he slightly patted on Kayla's back. "Now, how do we get out of here?" Parker whispered. "Well you can climb down from the window or you could wait until they go to sleep and then leave." Kayla replied. "That makes me remember. How can you sleep with your door open? What if a psychopath enters your house?" Cosmos scolded Kayla. "Are you talking about my room's door or the main door?" "Both." "Ah. I forget to lock them sometimes and nothing happened till now so I don't think anything bad will happen." "But you can't be too sure about it." Kayla just nodded as a reply.

After few more hours of chatting the two of them finally left after giving Kayla a big hug and as usual she didn't hug them back because she didn't feel comfortable with physical touch or deep emotional talks. She never had those things since childhood. It was always yelling and screaming and violence. Hell! She wasn't even comfortable in her skin and that's why she was starving herself.

Kayla went back to sleep but just after 5 minutes she got a text from her sister. "Open the door." Kayla opened the main door and her sister followed her to her room. "What were you doing?" "Sleeping." "Did he ask about me?" "No" "Good." "Where were you?" "I was busy with the club activities." "Oh." "Mom got realeased from jail." "Okay." "Won't you ask how?" "How?" "Her siblings helped her pay her debts." "I see" "Honestly. I wish she stayed there for a while cause I know she will end up there again so it's no use in coming out." "Yeah." "I miss Tom and Tiffany." Kayla's sister said with eyes full of water when she remembered about their two half younger siblings. "Don't you miss them too?" "No" "You're really heartless. You don't have to act cool all the time, you know that right." Kayla just hummed a response which made her sister leave the room angrily.

Kayla locked the door after she left and laid down on her bed. "It's not that I don't miss them. I want to see them, after all they were practically raised by me but it's their dad I don't want to see. After that night where he molested me." Kayla thought to herself and started thinking about all the time where her stepdad had sexualized her body with his friend just because she had gained weight. The time when she badly wanted to tell her mom about how he had molested her but her mom had come home drunk crying, saying that how she felt like her stepdad was cheating on her. Kayla didn't have the heart to tell her mom anything after that so she just sucked it up.

The time when her mom and dad were together and fought physically all the time till they reached the point where her dad had stabbed her mom multiple times right infront of her.

The time when her mom's siblings had kept on badmouthing her mother when she was recovering from the stabbing in the hospital. How Kayla was made to feel bad about everything. And after some point Kayla started blaming herself her for her mom's wound and her dad going to jail.

The time when Kayla's school counsellor had informed her mother about her depression and her cutting habits to which her mother had responded by saying that she shouldn't have any reason to be depressed because she had raised them well and even went to the extent of asking if Kayla had a boyfriend to which her counsellor had replied by saying that he would try asking her without making it too obvious which made Kayla feel like bitch. They treated her as if the main reason for her depression was all about a boy.

Kayla was now remembering the time when she and her sister had fought. Kayla's sister had said that she was creating her own depression and that she was always victimizing herself and that a person like her should just die. Kayla was so saddened by her words and started cutting herself thinking that she might receive a hug from one of her two elder sisters instead they just said that she should die and she was not deserving to live. Kayla did get a hug but it was from her elder sister's friend who was present during that moment. Kayla had just wanted a hug from someone close to her but instead she was getting comforted by stranger which broke her even more. Kayla was crying even more now and she just wished that she was dead.