If you were to take one look at Octavia Pierce, you'd think she had an easy life and a beautiful childhood, but that would be flat-out bullshit.

In fact, it was quite the opposite.

Octavia Pierce is a 19-year-old girl whose life was flipped upside down as soon as she took her first breath. Her parents thought they were ready to look after and love a child, but without a doubt, they regret having Octavia, and they make that pretty clear.

Octavia's mother. There's not much to say about her. She didn't really have an opinion, or a thought process or even a personality. She was just sort of there.

As for her father, he was an asshole. Plain and simple. But there was so much involved with him. He mentally and physically abused Octavia her whole life. Ever since she could remember, all she ever saw was the basement she lived in. She never left that awful basement.

She was chained up to the pole of the fire pit for most of the time.

That's where everything happened. The abuse. Physical and mental abuse was normal for Octavia. When she was younger she didn't understand that it wasn't right for them to be treating her like this, keeping her locked up her whole life, practically chained to the room.

As she grew older, she knew it wasn't right what they were doing, but with it being so constant and happening everyday, even multiple times a day, she thought it was normal, and it's just what every child goes through.

The physical abuse that Octavia endured was torturous-like. She was kept in that basement her whole life, her father would always come down at around seven at night and he would punch her, kick her, spit on her. Whatever he felt like doing, he did it, usually to the point where she passes out.

Octavia never knew if she was doing something wrong for this to happen, but she wasn't strong enough to fight back. She was barely fed, mainly bland food that isn't even worth listing. She knew she was underweight, she felt under nourished every day.

She learnt very quickly to not fight back when her father came down at seven, it always lead to double the abuse for the next couple of days. It's like he found pleasure in hurting and seeing the pain in her eyes, seeing the life sucked from her body as she passes out each night.

Octavia grew to accept the abuse, until one day.

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Authors note:

Hi lovelies, I know the first chapter is really short but I wanted to end it like that, but from now on they will be long and hopefully great to read :) Who's here from tik tok? Would be great to see how many people took time to come from tik tok to my book, it means a lot xxx

If you don't follow my TikTok and you would like to, my username is @tortured.heart

Excited for the next chapter? I know I am <3

- A