Birthday Present [info]

Smack. I was thrown across the room into the wall. I put my hand on my cheek. Feeling warmness, I take a peek at my hand and see a crimson red, my cheek was bleeding. Thiswas the third time my father smacked me, with a beer in hand, mumbling something about 'why couldn't you just be a normal child', while walking out of the basement, back upstairs.


There was a time when this hell wasn't like this, when my father wasn't an abusive drunk, when my mom was alive....before I was born. I rested my head on the basement wall, remembering the good times and where it all went wrong.

[flashback: 16 years ago]


A woman with purple hair and blue eyes is in a white marbled bathroom looking ata stick of plastic, that has a small blue strip running across it. "I can't believe it" she whispers, rubbing her small belly. "I'm pregnant !! Jace...Jace!!" she yells running out the bathroom abd throughout the house.


A man wiht black hair and brown eyes stops her. "Melinda whats wrong...what happened?" he says with concern writin across his face. "Jace...I'm pregnant!! we're going to have a baby!!" she screams jumping up and down.

[9mths later] Melinda is in the hospital bed holding her daughter, Sky. Jace is looking at Melinda through a window, with a disappointed look on his face."There has to be some kind of switch up!!" he yells at the doctor next to him.

"i promise you sir, we didn't switch up your daughter...there is 1 out of a billion people who turn out like her." he says. "So your saying there's nobody else like her."Jace adds. "No, there was one like her before but he died at birth, it is really amazing that she lasted 15 hours." he says.

 

 

Jace glides his hand throughout his hair, sighing in frustration. "So I can't get surgery done on her?" "Done on who?" Melinda says coming out of the room to let the nurses tend to her baby. "I was considering to let the doctor do surgery on Sky."

 

"No, we're not having surgery done on her!!" Melinda screams and storms back in the room and picks up her baby. "Nobody's going to do surgery on you Sky, your beautiful just the way you are." she says looking into her daughters blue eyes.

 

[flashback over]

 

Whats so beautiful about me? I think to myself, caressing my long blue tail and touching my blue and white ears. There's nothing beautiful about me, I'm not even a normal person.

 

i go upstairs to the living room and see my dad's body sprawled across the carpet with beer bottles everywhere. God i would do anything to leavce this place.

 

i go up to the bathroom to see if my cheek was okay. As I look in the mirror I see a blue purplish bruise forming where my head hit the wall. My cheek wasn't as bad but i still needed a bandaid. As I'mgetting one out the cabinet I hear my dad's voice and 2 unfamiliar voices talking, I crept out the bathroom, into the hall and listened.


Some might say that eavesdropping is bad, but if that person *cough dad cough* threw you across the room, I would call it even...right??

"So is she here?"
"Yes she's somewhere around here"
I saw my dad sitting on the couch, with a beer of course, and two men sitting across from him.

"Jace is she really a neko?... I have some potential buyers who would pay good money to have her and would be very disappointed if she was fake." the man said looking my dad straight in the eye.

My dad got up from the couch and got a photo from the used-to-work fireplace and gavwe it to the man."This is her when she was 5." The man observed it for what seemed like an hour. "How much do you want for her?" "$50,000"

This good for nothing drunk of a father was SELLING me to some man!!

"Call her"
"Sky come here!!" my dad yelled to any part of the house knowing where I was.

Yeah rite first you hit me, throw me into the wall ,then sell me and expect for me to come to you. Do any of you believe that,cause I don't.

"Are you sure she's still inside the house?"
"Yes I locked all the doors."

Something told me to leave from the spot, but curiosity took over me. I kept looking as the 2nd guy got and was walking in my direction. I couldn't move, my legs felt like 1,ooolbs were on them. I was frozen in fear.

Isn't it ironic that curiosity killed the cat...

"Looks like somebody's been eavesdropping on our conversation." he said looking down in me. My father and the other man  looked my way and came over. "So I guess you were right Jace ." he said touching my ears."Here take your money."

Smiling, my dad went over to trhe suitcase and started counting it.
"Dent bring the girl to the car." The 2nd guy grabbed me by the shoulder and pushed me out the door, over by the the car. "Get in." I just stood there, replaying the events that just happened.

You thought I was just going to get in the car rite?...Pssh please..