Chapter 1 - Empty Promises & Past

Part One : Empty Promises

Dozens of blurred feet scurried by in a rush. Without a pin size of energy she sat within the cramped alleyway. Her face felt sticky and dry from the tears she had cried. Lifeless as a broken doll, she survived the day over and over again, somehow she had always done so. But today was different… she was going to die. Her last bit of hope had been lost ever since she saw her mother. She no longer had any will to live on. For 8 yeas she lived on telling herself that her mother would come to take her away as she had promised. But this morning she had seen a women with her son walking down the plaza. Her face full of happiness as she was joined by her husband. This women was her mother... reality struck hard. She realized that her mother never intended to come back for her. The words she had spoken were only just empty promises. Staggering back to that alleyway, she slumped down looking up into the gray sky. Her mouth falling open trying to force out a laugh, but all that mange to escape her lips was the smallest chuckle. How naive she was to think her mother would come back for her! Laughable! Outrageous! Hilarious! She was fooling no one but herself.

The clouds above rumbled as if in agreement.

Squeezing tears as if they could feel her sadness. Fate was cruel, life was wicked, and miracles did not exist... her lip softly mumbled the words “all my life... I’ve been living by empty promises... empty... promises.”

Part Two : Past

The little girl grew up under the abuse of her father. Her mother had ran away with another man when she was three and ever since that day her father always came back home drunk. It was obvious that the father was unable to cope well that the incident, and so he began to drink and gamble. Her existence reminded him of the women who betrayed him and every time he saw her, he grabbed by forcibly by her long locks and beat her. After a while the father would leaved the brused body trembling of pain on the floor. Tears streaming from her eyes questioning the reason why? With no relatives around to take her in she had no other choice but to stay with the awful man.

One day a strange man appeared, he grabbed her by her wrist and dragged her into the yard pushing her into the dirt. She look up at the man, who looked down at her with a scowling face.

“ Listen here you little bug! Your father has sold you to the land lord and now you belong to him! Do not talk back and do as you are told without hesitation and you won’t get a beating ”

The land lord... She had heared about a local land lord who was rumored to find pleasure in the torture of young females. Dozens of dismembered bodies of young girls have been found near this man’s mansion. Although face with these accusations, the old man denied that it is his doing. No matter if she listen to the man, she would still share the same fate as those children. What was she to do? The man’s hand still grip onto her wrist, the feeling of her wrist crushing slowly but firmly creeped in. Celine squirmed and wiggles trying to break free. But it was no use. The man quickly became irritated at her struggles. Without another thought he delivered a heavy kick to the Celine’s stomach. Her bruised body flew across the ground finally stopping as her back crashed against the wooden planks. The impact sent trembles through her body. At first she felt her body burning up but seconds later it felt as if millions of needles constantly stabbed at her body. The burning pain roared like fire, it became too much to handle and then... she fainted without another word.

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