Chapter 4

Skyla was standing in the living room, seeing her younger self get beaten up by her Mother with a bat. 

While she herself gasped for air, her younger self was smashed agains a wall from her own mothers punch with a bat in her stomach. Cassandra just smirked at her little Sister devilish, standing there and enjoying the beating her sister got.

Little Skyla hold herself, while tears run down her cheeks, she screamed again “PLEASE! I BEG YOU!”

Her Mother just stood in front of her putting one hand in her waist, while the other hold the bat with a little of Skylas blood on it. Screaming at her daughter. “YOU! DON’T have the right to speak against ME.” She swings the bat again and smashed Skylas little hand with it.

“AAAAAAAH!!!” With a loud scream because of the pain little Skyla broke down to the floor again.

But her Mother found something new to hit her again “WHO allowed you to speak?! Shut the FUCK up!!!!” So she hit her hand again.

The little Skyla started to whine. ‘AAAH. It hurts so much. Please God, Someone, make it stop.’

Her Mother was satisfied with the reaction she got, so she bend down to her daughter asking “Good choice. So now let me ask you again. Did you took the money out of my bag?”

Little Skyla stayed silent. Her mother got angry because of that.

“Answer me! NOW!”

Skylas young self as well as she herself now started to tremble.

Little Skyla thought ‘I didn’t do it, but she doesn’t even believe me. What should i do? I know it was Cassandra but where is the point in saying it again, when no one believes me…’ so she just nodded her head and admitted like that to have taken the money, even though that wasn’t the case.

Satisfied with that, her mother got up and smirked. “I know it was you you ungrateful brat. So what shall you get as a reward for that?!”

Cassandra spoke up “Mom, how about we make her our Maid?! Like that she can make it up to us.”

Her Mother stroke her hair gently “That’s a good idea my darling. What a great daughter i have with you.”

As her Mother turned towards little Skyla again Cassandra smirked evil at her sister.

“You heard your Sister Skyla! Do as you told. I will let you go this time, but don’t you dare to do it again!” Her Mother pulled Skyla up by her hair.

With pain in her voice, she answered “Y-Yes Ma’m” while looking down to the floor.

Skyla herself, who had to watch all this again, fell down on her knees. Her vision got blurry and everything disappeared. The next Moment the whole scene was gone.

Skyla looked scared in the empty room.

Till she flinched as she heard new banging and whipping sounds. She was so afraid, that she closed her eyes. The whipping noises appeared again and with every sound of it Skyla flinched.

Till there was completely silence again.

So Skyla opened slowly her eyes. ‘Is it over?’ But she got shocked and stumbled back a little.

Her younger self was chained to a wall. Already covered with blood and scars from a wipe, she bleeds on almost every part of her body, while tears run down her cheeks again and again.

Skyla as herself now gasped for air and looked shocked towards her young self. Immediately tears poured down from her eyes.

Also the thoughts of her younger self could be heard by her. ‘Someone, please help me. I don’t want anymore. I didn’t do anything wrong’

Young Skyla cried silently while a small smile appeared on her face “They love me,… right? They have to…. Or I must be something bad…”

A dark shadow appeared behind Skyla and whispered “Why would they even care bout you? You’re a nobody! You don’t matter at all” That shadow bend over little Skylas body and covered her with even more darkness.

“Y-you are ri-right. I’m nobody. Why would they bother to care…” The eyes of little Skyla went blank and seemed to become dead. As she was hanging in the chains like a dead body.

Skylas herself screamed and cried out! “STOP IT! STOP IT! PLEASE! STOOOOP!”

She grabbed her throat with both hands while crying and screaming up to the Sky unable to do anything against the view she got.

Just like that , more and more scenes of her childhood appeared in front of her.

As she was 10 and got beaten up, just because the food wasn’t delicious.

Or as she was getting no food for 2 days because she came late home by 5 Minutes.

However mostly of the time she got a beating, because she was framed by her sister. Who told lies to their parents about what Skyla did, even though she didn't. Either way it was truth or not, as Skyla told the truth and told what Cassandra told was wrong, or that Cassandra was at fault and not she, she got even more worse treatment. More beating, no food for more days, more chores or just got yelled at more.

Skyla grew older and as she did, she started to stop complaining, to scream, to disobey the words of them, like that her beating wasn’t as hard and often as before…

Skyla herself had to watch all that, sitting on the floor, holding her ankles, while she was unable to move. Every scream every sound let her flinch, while her tears run down her cheeks continuously. She tried to stop all that, but nothing worked. The only thing she could do was scream and cry, while watching all the scenes…

‘Why… Why… Why… Why do i have such a life? Did i do something wrong in my past life? Please …someone help. I don’t care who it is but please HELP ME!”

With that thought Skyla woke up again, while trembling. She looked around her and recognized her room, her tears started to drop down again.

“Why did i have to dream about that…” she hold her head and pulled her knees onto her chest.

Like that she sat there for a few minutes, till she looked at the clock.

“I-I should go and get up. I ha-have to make breakfast”

Her legs were shaking as she got of from her bed. In the bathroom she looked at the mirror and saw a girl with tearful eyes. Those eyes were numb. The Blue got grey and lifeless…

Without paying more attention to it, Skyla refreshed herself and were gone to make breakfast. She saw herself often like that…

The following weeks, she was numb. Nothing caught her attention, so she wasn’t paying much either to her surroundings. Even so she was like this, she didnt let anything slide.

She did her house chores like always. Payed attention in school, let the humiliation of her family get over her and just like that, the last weeks of her school passed by.

In the summer holidays there was nothing special. She got pushed around by her family some more but it was nothing new. Besides that she worked in a nearby cafe to earn some money.

The six weeks of her holidays went by like that.

Little did Skyla knew that some more problems would arrive.