Just a Princess//by:

Chapter one- Surprise!

Claudia's POV:
"Hey, Claude help me pack up here... will ya?" I yelled to my brother who is--obviously "studying for the midterms"-- playing video games. He really is a good-for-nothing sibling even after our mother's death.

"I'm studying remember?!" He yelled back. Tch.

"I can clearly hear "Welcome to M*bile L*g*nds" echoing through your room! You little goof--" my sentence was cut short when the door suddenly swung open.

The strong scent of liquor went pass through, almost as if it spat through the inside of my nose. I covered my nose with the neckhole part of my shirt.

"D-dad.." that one word managed to escape my mouth before I suffocated in the smell.

"Hello there sweetie... how's your mother?" The man that I once thought as a father became a drunkard as if drinking is sleeping for him.

I look at him sadly, worry shows through my eyes and lips are parted, couldn't say a word.

"Where the hell is SHE?!" He raises his voice and came in my room, scrambling through my things as if mom is hiding in there.

I stumbled backwards and I feel like I'm going to puke while my dad scattered everything I have packed up for the trip.

"Dad...m-mom isn't h-here--" my dad slapped me harshly on my head and I tripped on the bed which causes me to fell over the soft covers.

"Shut up, young lady. Or else you're gonna make daddy angry. You see, I'm looking for your mother and I dreamt last night that she died in a car crash... hehe.. that ain't true, right?"

He walks closer to me while I gave him the terrified look I have been hiding all along.

"RIGHT?!" He glares and spat at me as my vision gets blurry and the salty liquid falls down my cheeks.

A second later, a gush of liquid followed by a choking sound of my father halts me to a shock.

My father, Ethan, is a great man-- before my mother passed away. Me and my older brother are the only one's left to take care of our father.

But after the accident that happened to our mother, my father started drinking heavily and started smoking. He begins to fight and disrespect other people who did nothing wrong, including me.

I was preparing for the trip to college and will be living in school dorms for the whole year.

But my father unexpectedly came in to ruin my day.

"D-dad!!" My brother rushes inside my bedroom and tossed his phone to the ground. He then held my father and pushed him to the bathroom.

I let out a heavy sigh and pressed on my chest. Thank goodness my brother came.

After dad was finished he carried him to his room and laid him on his bed just in time, dad fell asleep. He rolled his eyes as he let out a heavy sigh and turned to look at me.

"Done packing?"

"Nope. All of it was ruined by dad."