Aria’s POV
"What is going on here?" My aunt asked.
"Nothing, just trying to teach this pathetic fool, her place…" Amber uttered sarcastically, earning a small laugh from her minors.
I glared at them but I couldn't say much.
Aunt Susan disgustingly glanced at me causing me to shrink back deeper inside the water with my head lowered.
"Sorry, just pardon that dirty smug,"
"Fine though, it is so sad that the fun will end so quickly but I will let her go today," she said with a hurtful expression.
I know that she is just acting up.
"Thanks," Susan muttered with a smile.
"See you soon, plaything," Amber stomps out of the place together with her minors.
I released a breath of relief but unlucky me I was in for another hell.
"What a pathetic ugly thing you are?" Susan cursed.
"I am… sorry, aunt,"
"How long would you continue to be a jerk?" She lashed out at me.
"Sorry for disappointing you, aunt, but I couldn't fight back," I mumbled with my head cast down.
I felt embarrassed and ashamed to face her.
"Disappoint me!" She repeated.
"No! I blamed your mother for putting her life to save you worthless being… you made me lose my only sister that I have on earth because of your cursed life,"
My heart pangs at each word that she said.
"How could you fight back when you are just a waste of space," she clasped.
"You are better to die than to live… you are nothing but occupying space in this Pack," she continued going on as her every word breaks me.
This was the exact woman that always made sure that I never lacked anything when my mother was still alive.
But after her demise, she turned me into a punching bag. Caring less about me.
She despised me and made sure I never drive myself to happiness anywhere.
She starved me and treated me like trash.
She maltreated me and tossed me around like I wasn't enough, the same applies to her husband and daughter Jessy, Amber's minor.
Entering that house always has my heart at race and panicking.
"I am… so sorry, aunt," a sob escaped from my lips. I begged her non-stop.
I am starting to feel cold from staying inside the water for a long time, but still, she doesn't care.
"I don't know why I took it upon myself to have you under my roof because you are nothing but a thorn in the flesh," she spits.
"You know what? Go inside the room, clean the whole house, wash the plates both the neat and the dirty ones… wash the whole clothes and iron them, did I make myself clear?" She snapped at me viciously.
"Aunt! But I mobbed the house this morning and none of the clothes were dirty and about the plate, I have washed them all except the one that Jessy used to eat this afternoon,"
My lips trembled as the words left my lips with my body shivering in fear.
"I am not blind, I know you did all those things, good girl," she snarled.
"But you know what, I don't care! Go in there and do what I told you before I return. And you are going to make the dinner and serve it at the right time," she states.
"Aunt, please… I beg of you, please," My eyes teared up.
"It is none of my business and that's final," That was her last word before she stomped out of the place.
When I am done with the housework, my whole body aches due to too many loads of work.
Now I still have to prepare dinner and serve it before they return.
But I am afraid because I don't know if I will be able to pull through with time, Susan won't take any excuses and the same applies to the husband.
I rushed quickly into the kitchen to get the dinner ready before their return.
When I was slicing the vegetables, Susan and her husband walked through the front door.
My heart sank inside my stomach as I watched them with nervousness, they strode towards the dining table and before I knew it I heard the angry voice of my aunt.
"Aria! Where is that pathetic bitch?" She yelled.
"Yes… Aunt," I nervously answered with my head lowered.
"What is the meaning of this?" She grunted with annoyance and bitterness.
"What is…"
I didn't get to finish before she madly yelled, "Where is the food!!"
"I am still preparing," I mumbled with twitched lips.
"Still preparing…" She drew with a knitted brow.
"No! I mean… I mean that I am almost done," I mumbled as my whole body trembled in panic.
"Almost done, Aria… This is what I told you to do before I left this afternoon and you are still preparing," she snapped furiously.
As she tossed a flower vase almost to my face but thank goodness because I dodged it.
Susan’s husband stood there not saying a word or sparing me any glance.
Gosh! Was I expecting him to speak up?
Nope, he is the worst, the worst of them all.
"Please, Aunt, I will bring the food soon," I pleaded.
"You know I did other house chores, please I will soon be done,"
"You daughter of a bitch, don't you dare remind me of your works… That was your duty and not my problem!"
"What do you expect? For me to cook, feed you, and pamper you?" She lashed out at me.
"No, aunt I don't mean that way, please," crawling back slowly as she walks towards me.
"Don't play any pity card here when you are the victim, don't make me look like a bad one when in actual sense you are evil…" she barked
"You were just informed to carry out your duty but hell no! You wanted to blame me for informing you what you were supposed to do…" she heckles.
"Aunt I didn't mean that way, please," I mumbled with a quivering lip.
"SHUT UP! What do you know? When you were busy getting into trouble this afternoon you didn't remember that you have work to attend to,"?
"Please just give me a minute and I will bring in the food," I said in one go with the hope that she could leave me.
"What were you expecting from a foolish girl, that doesn't have any sense," the husband suddenly spoke up.
I bit my lips to stop myself from saying anything.
They gave me shelter which I couldn't get from anyone, so I owe them.
This is a daily encounter still, my heart still breaks at every single word that they said, at every single thing that happens.
"Aunt…"?
"Ahh!" I didn't get to finish as I felt a stinging slap across the face.
"Go get the food done, moron!" I left with tearful eyes.