CHAPTER 5

19th October, 2016

Waking up, I didn't have the energy to go down and start another round of I hate my family which was actually true don't get me wrong but I just wanted to forget for a little while that I was living with my family but at the end of the day I still needed to eat even if I would feel like they all should stop breathing and just drop dead and…. Wait was that what I really wanted? Did I really want them to have the easy way out? After all the pain and suffering they put me through? Should I just let them have the easy way out? No, no why should I? they made my life a living hell, why should I be afraid to face them, why should I give them the pleasure of feeling bigger than me, they weren't my family and I sure as hell wasn't going to make their lives bearable, I was going to make them pay with blood no matter the cost and no matter who I had to sacrifice to achieve my goal. As I lay on my bed lost in my thoughts, there was a knock on my door, I got up lazily and opened it,

"What is it?" I asked not interested in who it was,

"Do you know what time it is?" Brian asked angrily,

"Don't know don't care why?" I asked still uninterested while he looked completely riled up and pissed for only God knows what reasons,

"It's nine in the morning and because you refused to leave you godforsaken room we who actually have things to do have than to wait for a wretched soul like you" Brian complained angrily and his actions reminded me that although he always spoke softly he was never really a good person to me, he would use his calm alluring voice to bully, verbally abuse and downgrade me at any chance he got, he was completely different from Liam who would outright just bully me, but no, he had to keep his façade of the charming heir so no one would doubt him, which just made me sick because at the end of the day he was nothing but a manipulator who always got away with what he wanted even if he did something bad in front of others.

I looked at him and I just slammed the door in his face, he was getting too irritating to see and honestly, I was just too tired of seeing his face, I went to the bathroom and began running a bath for myself, when I was done, tidying myself up, I went down stairs and as I entered the dining room, I saw that they all had already eaten and there was no extra plate for me,

"I thought you said you all were waiting for this wretched soul to come down before you all ate?" I looked at Brain not surprised at what was going on,

"Laiza, watch your tongue and stop saying such about yourself" Mum said offended,

 "Why? I'm just repeating what your golden son said, according to him you all were waiting for a wretched soul like me to wake up which is odd really" I said irritated,

"First of all, Laiza your brother would never say that to you he loves and cares about you and what is it you find odd in the matter?" mum said calm but angrily,

"Well it's odd to hear that you guys were waiting for me and yet I don't see my plate on the table, if truly you were indeed waiting for me to come and you were just tired of waiting at least my plate would still be on the table but since it's not, it's only normal for me to say that I was never meant to eat on the table" I concluded looking to the side of the table on the floor and seeing the dog bowl and a card with my name on it. Humph, this was my loving, caring family that loved me so much, turning me to a dog and even if it was a prank my parents still didn't try to stop it,

"Laiza don't blame mum for this, mum thought you wanted to reflect on the wrong you did yesterday that was why she told the maids to clean up so don't get angry at mum ok and give the apology you were brooding on and we'll forgive you, ok" Stella said holding on to my arm, was she implying that I was the one who was wrong yesterday huh… she didn't know what was going on in that case, I yanked myself free from her grasp and pulled out a chair, grabbed a plate and placed three slices of French toast, fried eggs and sausages. I also helped myself to a cup of black coffee and full cream caramel milk and began my breakfast.

Stella stood there angry unable to say a thing with the entire dining room empty only for the silence to be broken,

"What the hell is wrong with you who said you could eat and how dare you not apologize to Stella for what you did to her yesterday?" Liam yelled like the brat he was and I just looked at him for a split second and continued my breakfast without caring for a word that was spewing from his arrogant mouth,

"Laiza what is wrong with you this morning, why are you acting like this?" Mum asked,

"I have no idea of what you are talking about, we were taught when faced with a mad man and a response is given it makes no difference between you and the mad man and so I refuse to respond" I said,

"How dare you call me mad?" Liam asked pissed and his face turning red,

"I never said that but if you believe you are than I guess we have no choice but to accept" I said feigning pity and shrugging my shoulders.

"Why you little…" Liam was about to yell when,

"That's enough" Dad yell and the room fell into silence,

I glanced at him and saw he was just a little bit pissed is all,

"It's all this bastard's fault, she hurt Stella and refused to apologize" Liam said yelling in return,

"So, what your saying is mum cockled dad and had me but then Stella and I are twins so we aren't Dad's children" I said smirking a bit and by this time mum was fuming mad because she hated this discussion more than anything,

"Shut up, you insatiable child" Mum said while picking a golden laced parceling jug and threw it my way, unable to dodge the attack I got hit and fell to the ground, my head hurt a lot and before I could understand what was going on I fell unconscious.

By the time I woke up I was in the guest room, no surprise there because they needed my palm print in order to open the door and it wouldn't work if I was unconscious. I looked around and I found mum crying in the arms of father, Liam and Brian sat down unbothered like usual including Stella, not like I expected them to care about me or anything even more I even doubted if they were truly my family, I pushed myself up slowly to sit up and that was when mum came rushing to my side,

"Are you alright? Does anything hurt?" Mum said acting like she cared,

"Don't touch me" I said glaring at her, she retreated and sunk back into dads hands looking hurt but I didn't care, I hated her so much to even care about how she felt. The doctor gave a little cough to state his presence,

"Well fortunately there it's just a scratch nothing too serious, all she need is some painkillers and an ointment to be used twice daily and she'll be fine" the doctor said and turned to leave,

"Thank you, Doctor Frank" Mum said,

"No problem, now she just needs to stop causing trouble for you is all" he said smiling sheepishly to mum,

"And you need to learn how to mind your fucking business you flirtatious prick" I scowled,

"Excuse me, how dare you say such to me?" He said in a fit of anger,

"What? Am I wrong? I'm pretty sure the Family doctor is Doc. Andreson but you are the one who always comes and if asked he would say he had no idea his office was called, what do you have to say about that?" I questioned,

In my past life Doctor Anderson was the family doctor and doctor Frank was a doctor who worked in his office and was always envious of how his boss was the one who was always getting called here so he intercepted all his calls and would come to the house under the pretense of Doc. Anderson sent him in his stead because he busy and with that privilege, he started hitting on mum and because dad was never really at home mum had a weak spot and so the two of them began to develop feelings for each other, well mum did while the asshole was with her for the money and during that time he managed to squeeze more than enough money and even got her to build a hospital for him and by the time dad found out he had flown over seas and disappeared without a trace leaving mum to bear the consequences, dad made her life a living hell and if my calculations were right they had just started dating which was good,

"E…excuse me young miss but I would never do such" he explained anxiously and mum was also a bit nervous,

"Of course, Doctor Frank would never do such and what is wrong with you instead of being thankful he took time to come down here to attend to you, you are giving him a hard time" Mum said defending him and with that I was really certain that they were already tangled together,

"Then if he really is innocent then he won't have a problem if we give Doc. Anderson a call, right?" I turned around asking father,

"Alright, this is actually getting interesting" with his permission Uncle Tim called Doc. Anderson and told him the situation on ground and not less than thirty minutes he was at the mansion and boy was he mad,

"Lord Denford, Good morning I am so sorry for not coming over here in person, I was unaware of the situation please forgive me" Doc Anderson pleaded while glaring at Doctor Frank who was behind him,

"Doc. Anderson, it wasn't really anything too serious, you didn't have to worry about it, I took proper care of it I promise" Doctor Frank said trying to pacify Doc. Anderson,

"Franklin what in God's name are you doing here?" Doc. Anderson yelled in a fit of rage,

"Sir please, let me explain when I got the call, I saw you were busy and I thought not to disturb you with such trivial issues that's all" Doctor Frank explained but if you asked was just him lying through his teeth,

"Even so you are still to report this to me and I would decide whether or not I would come or not and as you just said if I do happen to be preoccupied, I would choose someone to come over and with this behavior I have decided you are fired" Doc. Anderson yelled at him,

"Doc. Anderson p…please give me a chance, I…I promise this won't repeat itself, I…I promise" Franklin pleaded,

"Doc. Anderson, I don't think you should treat him this harshly at least he's been doing a good job whenever he comes, could you at least take that into consideration" my dear mother pleaded on his behalf,

"Wait you mean this is not the first time he has done this?" Doc, Anderson asked,

"Y…yes, why do you ask?" mother asked confused,

"Tell me who did you treat this time?" Doc. Anderson asked,

"It was the second little miss, she had a little cut on her forehead nothing serious, I neatly took care of the wound and dressed it properly" Franklin said with glistening eyes,

"Fine because Lady Denford intervened on your behalf, I won't fire you but from now hence fort you never to step foot into the Denford's estate in my name, in the future, in the name of the hospital you are never to come here ever again. Am I understood?" Doc. Anderson instructed,

"But sir please…" Franklin tried to protest,

 "Am I understood?"

"Yes sir, understood" Franklin finally surrendered,

"Good, starting today you are suspended and will return to the hospital to receive a query letter from the board. That will be all" Doc. Anderson said as he turned to face me,

"Sir please…" Franklin protested again,

"Don't make me change my mind" Doc. Anderson threatened,

And with that Franklin took his leave and Doc. Anderson made a call to the hospital and reported what happened before making his way to me and checking the so-called dressing Franklin claim to have done.

Doc. Aderson re-cleaned and redressed the work done by Franklin,

"How do you feel now?" Doc. Anderson asked with a kind smile,

"It feels much better thank you" I answered chirping,

"You really are a sharp one huh Tim said you were the who questioned the fact that he was always coming to respond to any medical emergency in the household" Doc. Anderson commended,

"Well, it just felt strange, and I missed the company of Grandpa Anderson" I said giving him a big hug,

"Hoho… why isn't this pleasant, well then this old man will always come over whenever I can I can to visit second little miss, is that alright?" Doc. Anderson said with a warm smile,

He and father had a discussion about what had happened and he left, with all of us sited at the family room,

"Um…I think now would be a great time to discuss the upcoming entrance exams, I was going to bring it up during breakfast but it ended up being very eventful" mum said looking at me, in the past if such a thing was to happen, I would forgive her in a heartbeat but now whenever I see her I would be reminded by what she did to me before my death, now I just want them all to suffer what they made me go through and much worse.

After realizing that she was not going to get the usual reaction from me, she pretended not to be fazed by it and continued talking,

"Stella dear, Laiza, I want to believe that the both of you have worked hard and you both will do well to represent the family, right?" mum said,

"Yes mum, I promise I won't do anything that would bring disgrace to the family" Stella chirped as she ran into her arms,

"That's wonderful, Laiza, I expect you to pass as well is that understood?" Mum said now hardening her face,

I looked at her and left them all at the family room, I couldn't believe I totally forgot about the entrance exams, in my past life, I passed with honors and got into Valore Ridge High School, not just that I also got a scholarship with a scholarship I could take in an extra person in with me and at the time when I got the scholarship I was very happy and I wanted to give the spot to Aiden, Uncle Tims nephew who was trying so hard to get in at the time and since he didn't have enough scores to get in I wanted to give him my free slot but Stela failed the exams and was unable to get in either. A family meeting was held and I was instructed to give my scholarship up to Stella and to go with the empty slot that came with it I begged but they refused at the end Stella stole my scholarship from me and I was bullied in school called a loser and dimwit. I later found out that Crestwood Academy also held their entrance exams on the same day and I was really hurt that I didn't get the information on time and had to suffer my hard work going to someone else, but this time it wasn't going to be like that and I was going to make sure of it. When I got into my room, I went online and applied for both Valore Ridge High school and Crestwood Academy and just like the past their entrance dates were on the same day, if Stella was going to steal my scholarship to Valore Ridge, then I would just go to Crestwood. Valore Ridge high school was a school created for regular nobles and what we call 'other descendants' while Crestwood Academy was created for the higher nobilities, heirs and other super very important figures meaning the Royalties. It is usually rare for an 'other descendant' to attend Crestwood Academy, both Brian and Liam attend Crestwood both under scholarship. Brian was taken in because of his high academic intelligence while Liam was taken in because of his excellent physical skills, I and Stella according to the rules of the family were to develop powers meaning the gift of the Goddess when we turned sixteen, which was a few months away and I was not going to let it happen like it did in the past this time I was going to take what is mine and make sure no one takes it from me and if any one tries, well the end would never be good for anyone.