A little warning....This chapter contains hints of abuse and violence.. You can skip the half chapter if you can't handle it



Anastasia hasn't even completely taken a step inside her house when a rough hand of Paul grabs her wrist and he drags her in before slamming the door shut.

Anastasia shivers in fear internally at the sight of his leather belt in his hand.

She fixates her gaze on the floor, preparing herself for the incoming pain.

"WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU WHORING AROUND, YOU SLUT!" He screams at her and raises the belt high up in air before hitting it right across her back. The impact was so high that it instantly cuts through her skin, chilling her bones.

He continues beating her not even caring that she fell down on the floor unmoving.

Spitting at her unconscious body, he kicks her roughly sending her broken body a little back.

"Disgusting piece of shit!" He curses out loud and storms out of the door, leaving her lying in her pool of blood.

When Anastasia gains her senses back, it's already dark out. Paul was nowhere to be seen.

Anastasia slowly pulls her body to sit but collapse right there. Tears pours down her eyes uncontrollably. Every inch of her body is crying out in pain.

Struggling to gather her broken body up from the cold, blood soaked floor. She stumbles into the kitchen and holds on to the counter for dear life.

She clenches her fists tightly, letting out a small scream. Her silent cries suddenly start to grow louder as she screams her heart out, her head leans down on the cold counter.

She screams again and again, louder and louder until her throat burns. The burning pain in her heart still doesn't dull down a bit.

It hurts.

It hurts too much.

Make it stop!

Please!

I beg you!

Just stop!

I can't!

She struggles to breathe.

A bile raises up to her throat and she hardly manages to make it to the sink.

The feeling of throwing up is horrid.

When she notices blood in the sink, it only makes her stomach churn even more.

STOP!

Blood rolls down her chin that she hastily wipes away.

The feeling in her legs goes numb and she collapses exhausted.

Please..

The wounds are burning, screaming with pain but Anastasia just feels tired at this moment.

The pain is blocked out when she blacks out again.

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Wincing, Anastasia adjusts her backpack over her shoulders. Her whole body is screaming at her to just shut down once again, but she stubbornly pushes her thoughts back in her mind.

Limping, she makes her way towards her school. In the middle of her way, her vision distorts a bit but she grips on her willpower.

She had bandaged her wounds. Few needed stitches but she couldn't really reach her back, so she treated them the best she could do. The bleeding had stopped and she had taken a painkiller while leaving her house but the pain is not fading away.

When she finally reaches her school, she opts to just bow her head down and get over with this day.

On her way to her locker, her way is blocked by three familiar figures.

"Well well well, will you look at it?" Arabella's snarky tone reaches her ears.

Anastasia does not say anything nor lifts her gaze up from the floor.

"Where were you yesterday?"

"HELLO! I'm talking to you!" Arabella snaps her fingers to gain her attention.

When Anastasia does not respond again, she slaps her hard across her face.

To Arabella's surprise, she did not even flinch. Anastasia keeps standing there like a wall, with her head bowed down. It was like her slap did not affected her a bit.

"HOW DARE YOU IGNORE ME?!!!" Arabella cries out and roughly pushes her down.

"YOU MUTE BITCH! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!" Arabella lets out a shrill that leaves everyone secretly covering their ears.

Anastasia curls up her body letting their blows hit her without giving any single sign of protest.

"AUGH! ARE YOU FUCKING NUMB TO PAIN OR SOMETHING?" Arabella sends a harsh kick directing at her chest on the same spot where she was shot and it pushes her back to the lockers.

Anastasia prays in her mind that the stitches won't open.

"ALRIGHT! THAT'S ENOUGH!" A voice yells out making everyone freeze.

"Who the hell are you?" Anastasia hears Arabella's scoff while she places her foot on Anastasia's back while deliberately putting pressure on it, making her breath knock out of her lungs.

"A-arabella. She's H-h-hades and A-Angel's sister." Her minion tend to whisper in her ear but nervously said it out loud.

Anastasia hears many gasps ring out before many footsteps starts walking away from the scene.

"So you are her, hmm. I don't want to hold any kind of resentment towards you. Take my advice and stay away from my business newbie." Arabella says while putting more pressure with her foot on Anastasia's back with each word.

"If you think I would let you bully someone and keep my eyes closed, then you are wrong, Arabella." The girl states back.

"It would be fun to see you around." Arabella scoffs again and Anastasia feels her glare on her before she stomps out of there.

Her whole group follows her out of there.

Suddenly a shiver of pain run through her whole body making her shudder and tremble.

"Hey. Be careful." The girl crouches down in front of her.

Anastasia covers her mouth and starts to cough loudly.

"Hey hey. Calm down." The girl continues to pat her back gently. Anastasia freezes a little at her gentle touch. Never ever someone comforted her like this and strangely it felt good.

Anastasia uncovers her mouth to notice blood on her hand.

"Oh god. Y-you are bleeding. Let me take you to the nurse."

The girl is trying to help her up from the floor but Anastasia shakes her head and wipes the blood off her chin.

Anastasia slowly turns to look at her.

Her green emerald eyes makes contact with the girl's dark eyes.

They are full of warmth and worry. Anastasia's poor heart feels like crying again- never ever someone look at her like that.

She gives her a small thankful nod.

Anastasia stands up and was about to walk away when she again calls after her.

"Wait. Could you please help me? I'm kinda new and lost."

Anastasia hesitates a little but then she tries to nod again ignoring the pain burning out her body. The girl smiles and runs after her to catch up.

"Thanks." She beams up a little before looking away a bit embarassed.

"Erm well I'm Eleanora." She introduces herself.

They finally stops in front of Eleanora's locker.

Anastasia nods faintly again and thinks about introducing herself too. It is Paul's one of rule to never interact with anyone at school but she didn't want to wipe that positive smile off Eleanora's face and make her feel hurt.

She finally pulls out her small notepad and scribbles some thing over it, ignoring her shaky hands.

She shows the notepad to Eleanora.

"Anastasia!" She reads out loud.

"That's such a pretty name." Eleanora smiles at her.

"Umm I hope we could hang out later. Only if you don't mind?"

Anastasia frowns at her question.

She writes the next thing that come across her mind.

"Why would you want to be seen next to me?" This time it is Eleanora's turn to frown at these words.

"Why wouldn't I, Anastasia? There's nothing wrong with it."

Anastasia silently stares at her lost in thought. Paul has always told her that she's a curse. Whoever come close to her, would be cursed too. She didn't want any harm done to Eleanora. She seems like a nice girl.

Finally, she snaps out of her daze and writes this on her notepad again.

"You are not a curse, Anastasia." Eleanora answers with sad eyes and suddenly pulls Anastasia into a hug.

Anastasia first flinched but slowly starts to relax.

"You are a precious gem, Anastasia. You are not a curse."

"Please don't think about yourself like this next time. So where's your first class?" Eleanora asks with a hopeful smile.

Anastasia shows her schedule to her. Eleanora skims through the paper with a wide smile spread across on her face.

"Oh yes. We have 3 out of 6 classes together. But how come I didn't see you yesterday?"

"You skipped, ohh I see. Otherwise I wouldn't have missed your pretty eyes." Eleanora giggles without even giving her any chance to think about any excuse.

But hearing her words, Anastasia feels warmth spreading in her chest.

Then they walk in silence to their first class.

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