Red rose

Why?

From the outside of this multimillion house, you would think a happy family with no problem that is filled with love and dreams, but not for a 10-year-old girl. Her room in the basement is being ransacked by her mother. 

"You ungrateful child after I rise you and feed you, you forgot to take care of your older brother and sisters clothes and forgot to wash them!"

"B..but mommy I..I was mopping the t...the floor and t..they didn't tell me, s..so I didn't know."

"Are you lying to me now. They would never do that you dirty dog! Let's go ask them and if you are lying to me you are going to get hit, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!"

Her mother grabs her by the hair and brings her upstairs to the living room. She tries to walk but her leg was too little, compared to her mother. Tears started to run down her face and the pain was unbearable. By the time they made it to the living room, she could see her older brother sitting on the couch with the twin sisters and to their left sat her step-father. As she stumbles to the living room her mother throws her on the floor.

"She said that you guys didn't tell her that you had laundry in your room and I wanted to know if that was the truth?"

"No mom we did but she just ignores us and left. We thought she was tired and tried to help but she yelled at us to go away because we were just a bunch of spoilt brats."

Her step-sister starts to cry a little, while her step-brother tries to comfort her.

"Why did you lie to mother that we didn't tell you just because we aren't your real sibling you thought you could lie and let mother and father scold us!" Her step-brother yells at her.

"B...But it's the t..truth mommy y..you have to believe me I...I"

She turns to look at her mom and only saw anger and disappointment on her face. Before she could tell her, her mom grabs her by the hair and drags her back to the basement.  

"Mommy, please stop it hurts! D...Daddy..."

As she turns to look at her step-father he didn't even turn to look at her and she could see her step-sibling smiling at each other. Tears start to fall down her face realizing that they will never care for her no matter how much she tried to get their approval. As they got to the door to the basement her mother throws her down the flits of stairs. She could feel the pain that shoots throughout her body, as she slowly tries to get up her mother grabs her right arm trying to pull her up. She could feel the pain on her left cheek as her mother strike her again, she could taste copper in her mouth as her lip starts to bleed. After her mother was done hitting her she was grabbed by the hair and stood in front of the mirror. 

"Now you listen to me and you listen well!"

As her mother starts to grab her face to look at herself in the mirror. She could see the blood dripping from her mouth and the red mark on each side of the cheek. Her black hair was a mess that was all tangle with knots.

"You will repeat after me and look at yourself in the mirror. 'I am nothing but trash and I am useless to this world. I am a mistake.' Now look at yourself and say it loud so I could hear you!"

" I...I am n...nothing b...but trash a...and I am u...useless to this w...world..."

 She didn't want to say the last one because before her real father passes away, he had told her that she was special and different. She starts to feel the pain of her mother pulling on her hair again.

"You bitch finish the last part or I'll hit you more than this."

"I..I w...was a 'hic' a... mi..st..ake..."

"Now it wasn't that hard Gomi dear, now stay here and no dinner for you tonight."

Her mother turns on her heels going back upstairs to the world of the living with her other family. While you were in the world of the dead. It hurt you so much but what hurts the most was your heart. You wanted your father but sadly he was no longer here, her father past away when she was 4 years old, her mother and father relationship was complicated. They were forced to be in an arranged marriage since they were born. Mother never truly love father since they live a separate house but kept their marriage intact together. Father never knew I was born due to his working hours and house arrangement. Father only knew when he came for a surprise visit to mom. She was 3 at the time and didn't know who he was but she could trust this man, but like everything else in this world, all happy things die to fast. Father died from a car accident leaving all the money to mother giving her the freedom to marry her longtime boyfriend and childhood friend. He was the man mother wanted from a young age but was never granted due to her fiance. After his wife passed away from childbirth of twin mother started to raise them as her own. She was born a year after them and leaving her to be rise by my nanny who loved me very much. She was only born from my father from a drunken night with her mother. 

Remembering all the past broke her, she couldn't take it anymore. She slowly tries to get up but the pain was there and it hurts. She tries her best to ignore and numb the pain as much as possible. Gomi only grabs the things that were only important to her which was her ring which was a little too big for her, so she only holds on to it with her little hand. She slowly went up to the step which leads to the living room and notices that the family wasn't there anymore. She slowly walks to the room with the most noise which leads to the dining room. However, What she saw was the last thing she wanted to see. Her own mother smiling as she presents gifts to both of her step-siblings and her stepfather hugging her from behind. Tears were falling down even faster as a waterfall. She left her family through the front door closing it slowly because they won't even remember her even if she begs. 

As she was out the door she ran, running away from anything and everything from all the pain. She came to a stop under a bridge and hid from all the coldness of autumn. Her tears were still there and it wouldn't stop falling. As she cried she did not hear the footstep coming from her left.

"Excuse me, young miss, why are you crying? Are you lost, so you need me to find your parent?"

"I...I'm not lost and I d...don't have any parent e...except my mommy, b..but she doesn't n...need me anymore. I'm c...crying because no one loves me and I...I have nowhere to go."

"Well miss my name is Asao and what's your name, young miss?"  

"G...Gomi"

He had a stern look on his face when she said her name to him.

"Doesn't that mean..."

"Asao! where the hell are you?!"

"I'm over here!"

"What are you doing and who is the little kid anyway?"

"Long story short, boss shes an orphan because her family doesn't want her anymore and was abuse base on her injury on her body and her name is Gomi."

"Wait doesn't that mean trash Ow... Why you hit me"

"Because idiot you shouldn't tell other people what their name means especially a little girl."

" Fine, fine god dame mother-hen. How about you come with us and be my own daughter?"

"Well, you... umm be like my old mother?"

"No dear I'll take care of you and you can meet your other 4 sisters at home, and I'll give you a new name..."

He was thinking about a new name for her until he looks up to the sky. Tonight was a full moon and he thought of a name for her.

"I'll name you..."

"Luna wake up."