It was eight years ago...When Eryna was just fourteen when her father brought in his mistress after her mother had passed away, He didn’t have slight remorse.
One day Tylor walked in through the main doors accompanying a woman with great charisma. There were two kids following her, one was a boy while the other was a girl who was a bit younger than him. They walked in behind their mother.
“Eryna! Renya! Come here…” Tylor called out.
In a short while, two girls wearing matching outfits came down the stairs holding hands. They walked side by side.
“Kids...this is your new mom, Say hi,” He spoke leniently to the girls.
“H...Hi,” Renya was a timed girl who dared not go against her father under any circumstances, she didn’t waste any time and muttered lightly.
Tylor waited for Eryna to speak up but she stood there with a stone face glaring at her.
“I will never call a mistress my Mother, Not when she is the murderer of my Mother,”
She spat those loathsome words and walked back upstairs.
“Eryna! Come back here!” Tylor growled at her.
“Even if you kill me...I won’t.” Eryna muttered and walked away.
“Eryna!!” Tylor kept screaming but she walked away without any response. Eryna locked herself in the room and avoided any kind of contact with anybody in the mansion. She was angry at Renya because she gave in so easily and most of all she loathed her father who brought in his mistress just two days after her mother’s murder. He didn’t even bother interrogating it. Eryna fell deep in depression, Her grades started to drop while her health declined sharply.
Tylor didn’t come to check on her...not even once. Her sadness grew and then turned into hatred. She wanted love and attention, but all she received was unlimited silence from her father’s side. She would cry into her pillow all night waiting for him to come and ask her if she was okay...She wished he would come and stroke her head once and try to console her, but every night she saw Tylor walk out of Grayson’s room with a warm smile, she was hurt she wanted to scream out loud but she never did.
Renya would sneak into her room once in a while and would talk to her, she would read her jokes which would make Eryna laugh. Eryna thought Renya was the only person who would never let her go, She would always love her so she would cry out her problems to her and would fall asleep in her lap.
One day at school, Eryna felt sick, her breath shortened and it was getting hard for her to breathe…
Her complexion paled out, the classroom felt stuffy. Eryna couldn’t take it anymore and she ran out of the class.
Her legs took her to the school rooftop. Her knees trembled and she lost strength in her legs. She kneeled on the floor and inhaled harshly, her nostrils felt like they were blocked while her throat constricted. Her face reddened she punched her chest to move the blockage,
She helplessly rolled over the floor hoping that air would rush into her lungs but that didn’t happen. She passed out on the spot.
“I think she is awake…” someone spoke, it was a close whisper.
“She doesn’t look like she is…” Another doubtful voice replied. “Try one more time!”
“Are you sure?...” the guy with a soothing voice replied with doubt.
“Agh! No just let her die there,”
The other voice replied in an annoyed tone.
“Okay! I am doing it,”
Eryna heard voices but she was unable to move until she felt something soft across her lips. Someone forced air into her constricted throat and it felt like the air puffed up her lungs. It was stuffy but she felt a little alive. She tried to suck in air through her nose. And her eyes opened suddenly, And she saw a guy pressing his lips across hers, Her eyes widened in shock and she pushed him off herself.
“What are you doing?” Eryna shrieked.
The guy fell backward and looked at her with a sorry gaze.
“It’s a misunderstanding, You...You were not breathing so…” the guy with beautiful green eyes and brown hair looked at her with guilt.
“Pfft...You must have stolen her first Kiss,” another guy laughed while standing a few feet away from them. He had distinguished features with Jet black hair and hazel eyes with a hint of mischief in his features.
“Shut up Hunter!...” he spoke angrily.
“I am sorry, I didn’t mean to do it, It’s just I had no other choice...I found you
Unconscious so I…”
He looked away in guilt, Eryna’s hostile gaze melted and she touched her lips,
“It’s okay...Thank you,” Eryna mumbled and got up to walk away in a daze.
“Wow! That went smoothly…” Hunter muttered into Simba’s ears whose gaze was glued to the girl walking down the stairs like a zombie.
Days passed and Eryna had already moved the memory of that day into the back of her mind, She was trying to get her homework done when she heard Helena making a fuss about something, Eryna walked out of her room to see what she was up to, Helena stood before her Mother’s room holding the hourglass that belonged to her mother, She cherished it a lot,
The room was filled with her mother’s belongings but now Helena was throwing them out one by one for some reason. Eryna felt like her heart was getting teared up when she saw the bits of her mother’s belongings shattered on the floor.
Helena lifted the hourglass and was about to throw it when Eryan stopped her and pulled it out of her grasp.
“How dare you enter my mother’s room?” She screamed, “ How dare you touch what belongs to my Mother!”
‘Slap-
Helena was already enraged and she slapped Eryna in the face, The blow was too harsh for her weak body, She struck her head with the corner of the wall and she felt dizzy and her head started bleeding. She touched her wound with the tip of her fingers to see the red tint.
“What is going on here?” Tylor walked in and stared at Eryna with a hateful gaze.
“She is touching my mother’s belongings, She broke them...She broke them into pieces...Aren’t you going to do something?” Eryna breathed heavily as she stared at her father hoping he would take her side. Tylor looked at the broken object on the floor and glanced at Helena.
“Honey I didn’t know...I was just cleaning up the mess in the room,” Her attitude took a turn and now she spoke sweetly to Tylor.
“It’s okay,” he replied.
“She is dead...It’s better to throw away the things that have memories of her in it,” Tylor replied heartlessly.
“How?... How could you say that? ARE YOU EVEN A HUMAN? HOW CAN YOU BE SO CRUEL!!!” Eryna had lost it, she was on the brink of insanity when she saw her father acting coldly towards her.
“Shut up!! I am your father, You don’t have the right to speak to me like this!” Tylor raised his voice.
“Haha! HAHAHA!! So that’s how it is going to be then?” Eryna laughed like a retard, blood dripped from her head, while her face paled out.
“I Eryna Sco...no, I Eryna Serene disown you today. You are no longer my father, I consider you dead from today onwards,” Eryna spat the words heartlessly.
Tylor stared at her with disbelief for a moment but then frowned.
“Well then if that’s what you want...I give you ten minutes to get out of this mansion, I too don’t own a daughter like you,” Tylor replied and walked away in anger.
Eryna looked at his figure walking away with pain, and then her gaze shifted towards Helena who was smiling ear to ear.
“Guess it was easier than I expected,” She muttered.
“You will regret it, Every single bit of it,” Eryna replied and walked away with a dizzy body. Renya stood in the corner looking at her with horror-filled eyes.
“Renya! Come on, let’s go,” Eryna held her hand for her but Renya looked at her with a reluctant gaze,
“Are you not coming? Are you going to stay here with a woman that killed your mother?” Eryna was feeling sick suddenly.
“I will...I will stay,” Renya muttered.
‘Hah! ...Silly me,” Eryna retreated her hand and stepped away. She went to her room and packed up her clothes and lifted her mattress under which there was a wallet. She placed it in her bag and walked out of the room and out of the mansion. She was dizzy and it was dark outside but she didn’t care, She could feel nothing. All she had in mind was the hostile attitude of her family towards her.
“Mom...I am sorry I couldn’t keep the family together,” Eryna muttered and walked out of the mansion’s gate.