The silent singer

chapter 13

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I felt the tears as they cascaded down my flushed cheeks and I told them, "when I was seven my mother was driving, it was close to my birthday and so she kept asking me what I wanted" I smiled sadly " I told her I wanted a Giraffe but she got distracted by me and a truck came out of nowhere, I remember seeing him drive right through the stop sign. I tried to warn my mother but she didn't see it quick enough. The truck hit the drivers side and she died on impact." I had my arms wrapped around my knees, if I were to look at myself in a mirror it would seem as if I am trying to make myself as small as possible in hopes of disappearing completely. I laid my head between my knees and wailed "I killed her it's my fault, I was the one that distracted her, I didn't warn her in time and I'm the reason we were driving in the first place, we went into town that day to get my birthday present." I stayed that way for a while and nobody bothered me, I kind of liked it this way, I had finally been able to voice my deepest, darkest secret; before I had felt weighed down by the truth but now someone knew. I looked up at the guys who were looking at me, I wiped the remainder of the wetness from my eyes and was relieved that they had given me some sense of privacy "I'm sorry you all had to see that " all their heads popped up at the sound of my voice "you know that's not your fault right? that was just a freak accident the other driver was probably drunk or maybe he fell asleep at the wheel." " but it is my fault, I distracted her. We were on the road because of me." I sigh and thought to my myself he was right  " is that why you stopped talking "yes" no, I couldn't handle the fact that a was part of the reason my mother is dead." "Do you think you'll ever talk to anyone other than us?" I set my chin back down on my knees " I don't know I didn't really tell you, you weren't supposed to find out I don't know if... I don't think I could do it." I heard the door slam from upstairs and jumped to my feet "crap what time is it ?" "uh," he looked at his phone , I really needed to get one of those "5:00" the familiar feeling of fear spread throughout my body "My father is home from work" Kota smiled "Hey were already here we might as well meet your family" family, yeah right  without saying anything else Kota barreled up the staircase and the rest followed "great" I grabbed my notebook and rushed after them . My father and stepmother were standing there smiling at the guys but I knew the anger that smile held, their eyes said all the word they couldn't say but nobody else would have been able to tell. " Hunny are these your friends, why didn't you tell us you were having friends over" I forced a tight smile on my face and wrote "I'm sorry I forgot" "it's OK sweetie just tell us next time why don't you introduce us" she waited a couple minutes knowing I wouldn't talk so archer stepped in first " it's nice to meet you ma'am my name is archer this next to me is decibel, next is Victor and last but not least Kota" "well boy my name is Katherine it's lovely to meet you" in one second my life just got a whole lot better, oh yes, the other step monster walked through the door. I sighed loudly and wrote this is my stepsister Britney. She walks up to Archer and hugs him pressing her chest close to him "it is so good to meet you" he looks so uncomfortable "it's uhh nice to meet you too" I could tell from the look in his eyes he was begging me for help. I got my notebook and started writing  I think your phone is ringing and I can hear it from your room. I tapped on Britney's shoulder and showed her my notebook "oh really maybe it's Jonathan calling me back about meeting me later  to umm hang out" she released archer from her claws and went to grab her phone she truly is a piece of work I thought, I'm going to pay for that later. "Thanks" he whispered my stepmother spoke "boys why don't you join us for dinner"  "we couldn't intrude on your family dinner you must work a lot to have such a beautiful home dinner must be your only family time" "Oh darling it wouldn't be an intrusion I  insist" he looked at me and smiled  "sure that would be lovely" but all I could think was oh crap. 

          She grabbed me by my braid and pulled me to the master bedroom "sit down, we are going to go over the rules I gave you before your punishment, Rule 1-don't talk back"  She chuckled "but I don't have to really worry about that one, do I. Rule 2- don't make friends not that anybody wants to be your friend, those boys are just hanging around you because you're easy they just want to good fuck, have you fucked them all yet, I bet you have you, little whore, you'd better not get pregnant or you'll be out of this house faster than you can beg for forgiveness. Rule three-do as you're told meaning when I tell you to be here at a certain time you better be here and if I tell you to clean the house from top to bottom spotless, I had better not find a speck of dust anywhere in this home it had better be so clean that I could lick the floor if I so desired . Last and most important Rule 4-don't tell anyone because if you do there will be hell to pay, now time for your punishment. Tell me or try to tell me what rules you have broken."  I didn't answer her, she roughly grab my jaw "answer me bitch" I slowly and cautiously held up two fingers and she grabbed them pulling me face-to-face with her,  I was so close I could feel her breath in my face and I prayed she wouldn't break my fingers. "that's right girl, but just know they aren't truly your friends, now which other rule have you broken" I hold up three fingers correct "were your chores done when I got home from work" I shook my head "all right 50 lashes  20 for each rule you've broken and 5 for how you humiliated your sister at dinner, just so you know her dry cleaning bill will be coming out of your allowance and 5for waisting my money do you know how much all of that wine costs, well let me tell you its costs more than your life" she grabs the same two belts as the time my father used them on me , I wonder if my dried blood was still on the belts I doubt he had taken the time to clean them I'm not worth the effort "lie on your stomach and removed your shirt. I did as I was told knowing that if I didn't my punishment would be worse.  She tied my hands to the headboard above me with one of the belts "count" I wouldn't count and she knew this she just wanted a reason to give me a harder punishment she counted out loud and made sure the belt hit extra hard for my disobedience I counted in my head 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the Sting cause my eyes to water or maybe I was just crying 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, I was definitely crying now and my head was feeling a bit fuzzy 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,  22, 21, 24, crap what number was I on,I focused on my stepmother's voice so I could get back on the right number "30, 31, 32, 33," I started counting again 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, my vision was getting cloudy 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and my back felt wet and I knew that the lashes were bleeding  46, 47, 48, I whimpered" five more lashes because you made noise" 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55. "Clean up the bed and go to your room" she left the room, I laid there for a few minutes to make sure that when I tried to get up I wouldn't pass out. I change the bedsheets, put my shirt back on , went up to my room and didn't even make it to the bed before I finally lost consciousness.

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          I woke up and peeled myself off the ground slowly, my shirt was stuck to my back. I started the water and when I took my shirt off some of the woman's re-open because the blood had fried to my shirt. I stood under the warm watery thinking about the dinner last night, 

"so Archer tell me about yourself and your friends of course "well, I enjoy playing sports and spending time with my mom and little sister Aurora, she's two they're amazing those girls are my whole world. I was born and raised in this area, umm yeah that's pretty much everything interesting about me." " awe you're so sweet your girlfriend is very lucky to have such a caring partner, what about your dad you haven't mentioned him." " oh he's not home much, he travels for work and I don't have a girlfriend but victor here does his girlfriend's a sweetheart" This was news to me I looked over at Victor and sure enough he's blushing "yeah, her name is Maria shes amazing..." Archer interrupted again "a Victor here is a genius when it comes to computers and stuff like that." "Arch, I wouldn't go around saying I'm a genius" Decibel was about to start speaking when Katherine just nodded at Victor and started another conversation with Archer "so how do you know my darling stepdaughter?" "we go to school together, hey Dec why don't you tell her abou..." "oh how precious, Octavia," I turned around to look at her from where I was standing at the stove preparing to serve dinner and since the guys were here I had to act like I enjoyed serving them, yuck. "is dinner ready yet? we don't want to keep these hungry boys waiting" I nodded and set the bowls of spaghetti noodels, sauce, and meatballs on the table. I separated everything because I didn't know how they liked their spaghetti. I turned back to serve everyone a glass of red wine, the kind that my mother liked to serve whenever we had company  I guess in her mind it showed we were "rich"because we had an expensive wine in the house , I had decided to set them on a tray so I wouldn't have to make more than one trip and guess what I made a trip just not the kind I wanted, my foot hit the corner of the chair as Briteny stood up as I was  walking by her and the entire tray of drinks fell in her lap "Arrggg you bitch  this was my best dress and now you've ruined it." My stepmother got up to address the situation "I'm sure she didn't  do it on purpose sweetheart just go change." We all sat around the dinner table eating quietly, Briteny in her new dress. "Momma, Octavia better be paying for my dress to be dry cleaned or she had better be buying me a new outfit." Katherine sighed "sweetie we will sort it out tonight." I look at Archer and see him still trying to hold in his laughter. 

And from the way my back hurts this morning, I tell my mother saw it too.

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Hey guys sorry for not updating in a while but just for you I made this update extra long, so tell me what you think is going to happen, what should happen I am always open for ideas, I am writing this as I go so I have absolutely nothing planned out so I don't even know how this story ends yet. Don't forget to hit the star down below I only need two more votes to get to 400 and on that note thank you to all my amazing readers the silent singer has reached over 5k reads!!!!  

On another point I'm going to rant so I have this 3rd block class and I can't stand it, I love the topic it is a contemporary health class so basically we just talk about nutrition. The people in the class though make me want to claw my brain out. Urgggg think of having the class clown, cocky jocks, and the guys that think whatever goes through their brain and comes out their mouth must be law, in one classroom and they never get kicked out and I don't know why. We literally have to stop class like every 5 minutes and it drives me nuts, I actually care about my education and if you are one of those people that couldn't care less fine by me just don't contaminate my learning environment. okay sorry, end of my ranting. 

word count: 2039 just for the chapter and not my ranting

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