Belle,
I'm sorry, I apologize so deeply as my soul starts to sin. I didn't mean to make you scared of me. I didn't mean to hurt you. I promise I do love you, and I want to take care of you. Please care for me, too.
Just after dinner, she washed the dishes, trying to get far away from the uncomfortable silence between her and her introverted father. She was never close to her father, that's why she replaced her father figure with her favorite Uncle Thomas. Uncle Thomas was a father in charge of the town church, and he was the most gentle man she had ever known. Uncle Thomas was nice to her, as well. He treated her like his own daughter.
The television started to stop the beautiful harmonic music video. She was frustrated but then as she looked away to the TV, she realized it was the news.
Two teens were found slaughtered and bare naked in the woods.
Her eyes widened, her face pale, her fingers trembling that the glass plate fell from her frail hands and crashed on the ground.
Andy Belton, Sierra Graham
"Belle!" Ellie gasps; kneeling to the floor and grabbed the big pieces of shattered glasses. "You're sometimes so clumsy," she groaned but then she saw her daughter turned so pale, her blood flushing down like she was a porcelain doll, standing still and big eyes. "Belle, baby, are you okay?" Ellie stood up and felt her forehead, which felt so warm and hot but her hands were so cold. "Are you sick?" She asked worriedly. Her father who hadn't change his working clothes with his name-tag still tucked, John Arlene, was of no worries. He just looked at her with his eyes unconcerned.
"I..." Her voice cracked yet soft and still. "Excuse me," she left and ran to her bedroom, shutting the door close and leaned to her door. She was breathing heavily, she felt like screaming but she wouldn't risk the chance of her parents hearing—no, she still wouldn't risk her parents knowing.
She was scared, so scared and fearing her life so dearly. This couldn't be happening to me. Andy Belton, the boy who purposely threw a ball to her head, causing her to fall to the ground with her knee scarred. Sierra Graham, the girl who embarrassed her in front of the whole class that she cried in the toilet, with the world 'prude' hanging around her head.
No, it can't be happening to me. Why is this happening to me?