Enchanted To Meet You

The Scars She Hid From The World

REGINA MCBRIDE

The heavy iron gates of the Wilderness Correction Camp groaned as they released me after three years of state-sponsored hell. I stood on the dirt road, clutching a plastic bag that held my entire life, waiting for the family that claimed they sent me there for "rehab." My brother, Brady, picked me up in a luxury SUV only to throw me out onto a deserted highway in the middle of a brewing storm. He told me I was a "public relations nightmare" and that the rain might finally wash the "stink" of the camp off me. He drove away, leaving me to limp miles through the mud on a snapped ankle. When I finally dragged myself to our family estate, my mother didn't offer a hug; she gasped in horror because my muddy clothes were ruining her Italian marble. They didn't give me my old room back. Instead, they banished me to a moldy gardener’s shack and hired a "babysitter" to make sure I didn't embarrass them further. My sister, Kaleigh, stood there in white cashmere, pretending to cry while clinging to her fiancé, Ambrose—the man who had once been mine. They all treated me like a volatile junkie, refusing to acknowledge that Kaleigh was the one who planted the drugs in my bag three years ago. They wanted to believe I was broken so they wouldn't have to feel guilty about the "wellness retreat" that was actually a torture chamber. I sat in the dark of that shed, feeling the cooling gel on the cigarette burns that covered my arms, and realized they had made a fatal mistake. They thought they had erased me, but I had returned with a roadmap of scars and a hidden satellite phone. At dinner, I didn't beg for their love. I simply rolled up my sleeves and showed them the price of their silence. As the wine spilled and the lies crumbled, I sent a single text to the only person I trusted: "I'm in. Let them simmer." The hunt was finally on.

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Sonya just graduated from high school and she was over the moon with hapiness, she woke up the next morning like a princess who slept in. Her aunt has left for where she doesn't know so she is free to relax for a while without having to answer to her name hundred times in a day.

She woke up at exactly ten and yawn loudly, its been long since she slept that late in years, She took her phone from her desk and downloaded some information about the school she is working to apply to in country X, a country after hers.

After a little while of browsing she dropped her phone and entered the bathroom to ease herself and wash up buy not long after she entered, she heard her aunt's voice.

"Sonya! come down this minute" Sonya's aunt, miss Pat shouted from the living room.

"Am coming, am in the toilet" Sonya is quite surprised that her aunt is back so quickly and calling her name like she is committed a crime as always.

She quickly finished her business in the toilet and hurried downstairs to meet her abandoning her plan to bath. Getting to the room she saw her aunt's boyfriend and her cousin also in the living room and sighed, everyone turned their attention to her as she enters.

"Good morning aunt what is it?" she asked knowing that whatever reason it is, is not going to be something good, Her cousin try to inform her about the situation but she didn't get what he was trying to say.

"You idiot!" her aunt moved closer to her to hit her but she was quick to dodge her.

"Aunt please calm down what's the issue?" Pat threw a note at her instead.

"Jow are you going to explain this?" Sonya pick up the note and opened it to read the content, it was the note she gave to her aunt’s boyfriend to help her process her admission to country X. Sonya stood there lost of words on how to explain to her aunt that she doesn't have any ill intention towards her boyfriend

"I clearly told you that after you graduate from high school you should find a man to take care of you and pay your debts but you are still thinking about going to the university and an international school at that. Are you kidding me?" her aunt yelled angrily, Sonya stare at her aunt's boyfriend who was sitting down quietly and watching her misery. If looks could kill Sonya would've killed him ten times over

"You said you will help me” Sonya finally said

" I said i would help but i didn't say i wont tell your aunt about it and besides you are not ready to pay the price for it so i don’t see any reason to" Mr Joe said smirking at her.

“You even made a deal with my man, If you want to seduce someone get your own man!" She angrily without care

"That is how your stupid mother also gave birth to you, by seducing someone else husband, prostitute" her aunt said angrily.

"Mom, that's a bit too much" Simon cut in to stop his mother.

"What? I can't even say that much after taking care of her for all this years and letting her live in my house, should I also be respectful to her" she snapped at Simon and he kept quiet.

"I don't care about anything, All I know is that after your final exams you are getting married. That's the only use of your face" she said facing Sonya.

“Am not getting married to anyone!" Sonya shouted at her and ran upstairs.

she lie down on her bed and buried her head in her pillow, how can her aunt bring up her kother evry time like that? Simon knocked on her door and entered not waitung for her response

“Hey, are you crying?” he asked.

“Hey to you too” Sonya answered sarcastically.

“You know i cant say anything down there especially when her boyfriend is there”

“Yeah right, so you decided to just sit down there to watch the show" Sonya said annoyed with him, although her aunt is a bitch and doesn't care but Simon is the best cousin she could ever wish to and he has always helped and support her in everything

“No its not like that and you know it but do you really want to study at country X?” Simon asked.

“Yes of course, why else do you think i would ask for that man's help if i don’t. That stupid man” Sonya added

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