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The lights on the stage were blinding, the ground was sturdy hardwood. I felt sick, my intestines were growling impatiently, but i couldn't go there were 100s of people in the audience. I was almost finished with the show, just a few more spins than a leap. It was time for the big finish
I closed my eyes. My teacher always told me not to, but it helped me focus on times like these, one spin, two spins, a three to the four and the leap. my body the moment i leaped gave me a cramp attack, i had to physically fight myself to not screw it all up. But then it was all worth it
As I landed, I saw the audience, my parents were on the balcony. Suddenly the crowd applauded, as they did this, I bowed along with all the cast. I need to go to the toilet now! Just as the puke was gurgling up the crowd started throwing flowers at me and the rest of the cast I guess, i grabbed one and threw it back causing people to physically leap out of their chairs finally the curtain closed.
I ran so fast to the toilet i thought that I was going to take flight. When i arrived, I wasted no time at all instantly regurgitating all my sick into the toilet bowl, I was shacking from the smell of it and feeling it left in my throat. I walked over to the bathroom mirror before using my costume to wipe the sick of my lips, they must have done this
I saw gemma she used to be my stepsister before my bio parent got back together. Shes always been jealous of me and when she heard that she got the mice and i got the suger plum fiary she was mortified, the last thing i ate was her blueberry pies gave me for a “peace offering” peace offering my as- that's when i gave her a right hook to her jaw, she stumbled backwards
“WHAT THE HELL” gemma screamed
“YOU TRIED TO POISON ME YOU BIT-” just as i said that she kicked my gut accusing the rest of the sick i haven't gotten out to go on her ugly rat costume
Enough words. I grabbed this girl by her arm and twisted it so far it looked like a unicorn horn. Then i yanked causing it to dislocate and uppercut her. She had a nost bleed before ramming me into a mirror making the glass shatter on my back. At that moment the teacher came in
“WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!” he screamed
“She tried to poison me!” i said
“She tried to kill me” she said
I wasn't but I will now if this rat doesn't keep her mouth shut
“THAT IS QUITE ENOUGH FROM THE BOTH OF YOU, YOU ALL ARE GONNA GET A MONTH SUSPENSION” the teacher yelled
You have got to be kidding.
After that i went to my parents' house, we lived in the richer side of NYC, I wasn't born here however
. I was born in St. Petersburg, i used to get bullied with kids calling me Putin or a commie. I learned to live with it however especially since i could move schools whenever I wanted. My parents moved here after my mum and dad became prima ballerinas. They would kill me if i messed up this. Well here goes nothing
I went over to the silver door; you could see your reflection in there I loved looking at it when I was child staring at my brown hair and green eyes and pale skin. I opened the door my parents standing up facing away from me
There was an unbearable silence before my mum coughed up the bombshell
“ we’ve heard ” she said
“im sorry” i said on the verge of tears
They didn't reply it felt like i was suffocating and when i screamed people walked right by. I hated when they were disappointed it felt like there is nothing you can do, like rolling a boulder up steep hill no matter how hard you try they still resent you.
“ Go to your room ” my dad slurred
I walked up the cold stairs into my room, it was brown and cosy unlike the rest of the house and i cried for hours feeling the rivulets stream down my face in swarms until my tear ducts were dry, until my checks went numb, till my mind felt dumb
I climbed out of my loft bed and down to my PlayStation I got a month ago for my 13th birthday it helped me focus on something when I felt mad or sad, I booted up some SIMS and got to playing, i made a simple family with a normal house in the winter jut as i was making the kids room i heard a screech
“MAM, PAP ARE YOU OKAY”
No reply
“HELLO”
No reply
I ran down the stair like my life depended on it. Well, it honestly could of, when I slammed open the living room door my mum and dad were bleeding on the couch when an animal with the body of a deer and the head of a lion was standing front and centre in the living room.
“Aw did your mam and pap get hurt” it laughed in a sarcastic tone
How dare this hideous thing come into my home try to kill my parents and then insult me. Then suddenly, a primal rage festered in my blood, i wanted to kill this thing.
I leaped out and got in a choke hold it tried to wriggle free but then I stamped on it ribs breaking a few of them. It bit my arm, but before it could try to kill me I uppercut it and i punched his face again and again and again and again. I unleashed an ungodly mount of flurries at this dumb fat beasts face, I couldn't stop myself i was mad, i was hurt, i confused. But all knew in that moment is that I wanted that thing to die
“Demigoddess, you are the...” I whispered as its last breath
I got my mam and pap to the hospital as fast as i could. I used some towels as quick makeshift brandades to stop the bleeding. When i got there, it was pretty late in the night. I couldn't see them until 10 o'clock tomorrow it felt wrong to leave them there so i just waited in the waiting room for hours until a blonde doctor came in
“They are waiting for you”
I got up from my seat and walked over slowly, i had so many emotions from the argument to the fight to the situation. Being honest I was scared. I opened the door with anxiety
My dad looked at me
“Come here, Valeriya”
I walked over to him, he got my name when he was watching a film about Valrie's and my mums water broke during the film and i guess he wanted to memorialize that film in me.
“what did beast mean when it called me a demigoddess?” i asked him softly
He put his salt and pepper hair back with a scared smile.
“im not your father sweetheart”
My jaw dropped.