The devil behind the mask

nika

than I could even remember most times I was just grounded. But none of the punishment ever took four hours to be decided and by my family member. I kept wondering if what had happened would be enough to warrant any extreme punishment, this thoughts drifted me back to the day before yesterday when my dad and I arrived at

meeting or even stepped a foot into my grandfather study room where the meetings are a

iving,

r around the city but as always my father didn't care or even bother to notice me leave,

m

a fool and her dark hair was trimmed right above her neck, she wore a black T-shirt saying 'l HEART ROCK 'N' ROLL' accompanied with a black leather jacket and black jeans. It was obvious to me that she was part of a rock

red at me for a second then pulle

u say" she asked her fa

r face lit up with a smug grin as lips parted reveal

she crossed her ha

t it says I heart rock and roll" she gave out a

rphones and for the record I totally love that song" she d

d John Lennon most especially to his band mates before she stretched her hands towards me and told me her name was Zara Manning and I t

t before the family meeting. I should have

my decision then. So when the train stopped I hopped out but I could sti

mansion, looking at the antique b

as warned by my Grandpa to stay away from, I can still recall the day when I wandered just close enough for the spiders to feel threatened and attack me. I was overtaken with a electrifying pain. I had a high fever, it was so bad I thoug

ext to the grandfather clock. He wore a grey suit with a white long sleeve shirt and a grey

itted into a frown as he kept the w

brought to a complete halt as I heard a irri

my arch nemesis Samuel. He had the same smirky smile that

s most girls get lost in its void, strands of his sandy hair fell across his face but nevertheless he still had the same smirk he had since he walked into the room. He wore a black tank top w

y snapped out of my thoughts and retorted back at him but all I man

y dad paused for a moment and rubbed his temple, letting out

at your best behaviour, nothing must go wrong, have I made my self understood" he then gave me a

e said to me while pushing off his yel

e" I replied back to him as I made it up t

f trouble" accompanied with a wei

my name tag second door on the right. The first door on the right was john then mine followed by Beverly then

dor was Elijah's room it was bigger th

still looked tidy and it still had the books about psyche I often read and my rock band posters was still on the wall, everything was still the same. But it was still missing one important feature, I reached

is pi

my door and I told whoever it was to come in, then I saw Olivia and her brother John walk into my room

a spoke to me with a smile on her face while John walke

dad issues" I

ill being very strict on you" Olivi

e my mom died" I took a de

now when he is

what college have you applied f

but I haven't heard any res

n Colorado has replied me and I got in and I'm going

t's nice

to talk a lot. They always spoke as if they were going to be charged for amount of wor

chatti

d just talked and argued about politics w

Thomas the youngest of my dad siblings. The dinner was just like it used to be, the twins Danielle and Brian

room and the only thing that I thought ab

ook a bath and went down to get something to eat. I got bread and some ingredien

turned back to see my father nanny, Lydia took care of my father since h

ia with a smile then she made her way to the kitchen grab

le child, he vould dance and jump vhenever I prepared it" Lydia spoke with a

him eating any" I responded to Lydia as I

burst into laughter at Lydia's thought about my father but that laughter faded away whe

d towards her chest like she did when I was little in an attempt to console me which worked by the way till I noticed Danielle watching my emotional breakdown with Lydia from up the stairs. sh

he had a malicious

ack to her in a similar manne

t yet" Danielle asked the

sed her phone up oper

oops" she looked at me holding her left hand up to h

g

attitude that made me want to stick my nails into her brown eyes li

to have breakfast with our family because I wasn't quite feeling like it" when I

ed hair sideways as her short blue skirt did the same as much as I hated Danielle I had

room I had always found solace in my room ever since i was little. I still couldn't wait for nightfall to go to the party, then I heard two cold taps on my door and instantly I knew it was my dad so I

leased to hear my Grandpa asking for me, when he saw me he was filled With happiness he quickly engulfed me in a warm hug, I could almost see the jealousy gushing out of Dan

he uncomfortable glare forced me to break free from the hug. After a while my Grandpa summoned my grandaunt, dad, uncles and aun

ut of a house containing about twenty people in it. But I soon discovered it was a good thing no

. When I stepped into the party, it was filled with a lot of teenagers holding plastic red cups. I saw a band performing on stage but it wasn't the night bats. I sear

you wouldn't make it" she raised her

which I declined all because I wanted to be sober for the meeting tomorrow. Then she took me to a room and introduced me to her band, t

to cling to my sanity the more I drifted o

h the smell of alcohol coming from me and the smell of urine all around the room, that was when it struck me that I was in jail. I couldn't recall anything that had happened in the party till now. I w

anything, the sound of footsteps approaching my cell jolted me out of my reverie. When the footsteps reached

pitch black screen on and my heart sank when I saw the time and date, it was the day of the meeting and the time was 2:33 pm I knew I was going to be

e close within arms length he grabbed onto my ar

onika" then he opened the passen

ew I stood a chance at convincing him of m

w what happened. I was at a party and th

om you stay out from trouble and what did you do" his words prohi

the house, I was shocked to see the living ro

udy room" Brian spoke with a courteous smile on his fac

e cousin?" he ask with

n't remember" I said hoping desperat

eally matters" Brian words weren't as comforting as I hoped to h

thing to our family" I recognized the raw s

he door my auburn hair was a mess. I always hated it whenever I wasn't conscious of my actions it makes me remember the death of my mum and how I can't recall what those monsters did to her. By the time I was done taking a shower it was nightfall, the sky outside was dark and you could hear insects chirping all around

ss in John's voice completely stunned me, he was

ut how I

ryone makes a messed up mistake" h

ortant to everyone it w

rt began to beat a little bit faster anticipating a terrible punishment. Everyone had Already taken their seats around the dining table. There were no utensils on the table so I had an idea we weren't here for dinner. Lydia and her daughter

g, thereby causing us to cancel and postpone it to tomorrow" Gr

ted the idea of not partaking in the meeting. After hearing the verdict I went straight to my room not in the mood for dinner