Chapter 16 - Memory
My eyes shot open as I gasped for breath. My heart rate was out of control as I blinked rapidly to clear my vision, but it remained black and dark. My eyes were open, but I still couldn't see a thing; had I become blind?990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMk964YnBE
"H-Hello?" I hesitantly said. "Pinky? Lux? Crimson?"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFAxCBDuNF
But I received no response. I started to feel nervous as I wrapped my arms around myself for comfort.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjIBLb9olN
"Mama," A small ,cherubic voice said.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwwUNUKxqh
My head snapped up as I tried to trace where the voice was coming from. "Who's there?"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6i1ky9yInf
Suddenly, a door was creaked open and light entered my eyes. Tiny footsteps pattered on the ground till they stopped right in front of me. A small child, who looked no more than four grinned as her identical shiny blue eyes stared gleefully into mine. "Mama! Mama!" She nestled her face into knees as she wrapped her small arms around them.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYOxRRRnmUo
"Mama?" I repeated, absolutely befuddled as I stared down at her thick, neck length sandy curls. "I'm not your mother,"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanrX6iUAy3
She stared up at me sadly as her bottom lip trembled. "Yo-You're not?" She cried.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBoz8u4XCeT
I stooped down to her level and gently grabbed her tiny hands. "I'm sorry sweetie, but I'm not your mama. What are you even doing here all alone? Did you lose your mama?"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KwQ8IA8Of
She shook her head slowly as she rubbed her eyes. "No," She sniffled. "Papa said that Mama was in here!"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiFQWo7ies
"Well where is Papa now?" I questioned.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JCRDPvrqa
"He said not to disturb him because he's with his friend,"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwaGu9EWFc
"He left you alone to be with his friend?" I narrowed my eyes. "Your father sounds like a big stupid-head!"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvcyRHTCRZ
A faint smile etched onto her face. "Yeah, my big brother Arty says that too!"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIImut7BGNz
Did she just say Arty? "Ar-Arty?" I repeated confused. "Your brother's name is Arty?"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfz2N0D4sf
"Yeah!" She grinned. "He's the oldest and my favorite! But I have a big sister and two little brothers as well!"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUcFLvSkdU
She can't be..."What's your name sweetie?" I asked.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HntzHnx9U
She beamed up at me. "Alex! And I'm a princess!"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXm1akcCSgj
I felt the blood leave my face and my throat became dry. Just where the hell am I?990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMMPuYeBxY
Now that I look at her more carefully, I noticed some characteristics about her. Our eyes were the same, our hair was the same. The freckles, the fingernail shape, the smile, even the arrow shaped birthmark on my neck!990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvDmA4eMYm
"How old are you Alex?" I whispered.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbDTgwYzBh
"Four!" She held up four fingers proudly.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbsc99O00hK
"Why aren't you at your lessons," I asked. Never can I remember me being alone at four years old. I had princess lessons with Grace everyday, all day.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDY2Q1Ubvp
Her face saddened as she pouted. "Papa says that a little bitch like me isn't capable of being a proper princess so he doesn't allow me to go,"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUwPbYADjU
What? I don't know what's going on here. It's true that my father is the king of assholes, but he'd never said anything like that to me, at least not at such a young age!990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RQAzI8Vp6
"Take me to your Papa sweetie," My voice hardened.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3d11dzGFA
"But he's gonna get mad at me again," She pouted.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTqygULHJUo
I leaned down to her level. "Don't worry, I'm not going to let him do anything to you, I promise!"990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCmGmkDEAl
She bit her lip and slowly nodded at me before gently grabbing my wrist and tugging down the corridor.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFp3ZZhaTE
As I looked around it, I realized that it was indeed a palace hallway, but the decor and structure was a bit outdated; it looked at least ten years old.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAUDnuiCCi
"This is where Papa is," She stopped in front of a beige double door.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgNoY0jzJW
Taking a deep breath, I pushed open the doors, letting light illuminate the pitch black room. But I was beyond shocked at what I discovered. Lying on the ruby red mattress was my father, his long, curly dark brown hair falling in waves over his eyes as his hands wrapped tightly around the throat of a woman lying beneath him. Her long, golden tresses spilling around her like a halo and she screamed and wiggled to get away from his grasp. As she turned her face towards me, I recognized her to be my mother! My father growled harshly as he noticed the door opening, however, it seems that he only recognized younger me. He got up and stalked over to us with the sheet wrapped tightly around his waist and I noticed that their was blood on the sheets. My mother curled up into a ball and sobbed. Was he raping her?990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPwtgWA3Kn
“WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU LITTLE BITCH!” He boomed as he grabbed my younger self by the hair. “I TOLD YOU TO GET LOST!”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOePnkKMzn
“LET GO OF HER YOU ASSHOLE!” I shouted at him as I tried to pry his arm off, but, it was like I was invisible.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tn7zc1Unx
“I-I’m sorry Papa,” My younger self whimpered. “I just wanted to-AHH!” She cried out as he suddenly smacked her across the face, sending her spiraling to the ground.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvkHybDdGY
“ALEX!” My mother screamed as she tried to stand up but fell to the ground in pain. “STOP IT! SHE’S JUST A CHILD!”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWn7re4beA
But he continued to brutally punch my younger self across her tiny body. No matter how much I tried to intervene, it was just like no one could hear or see me besides my younger self.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgbneN8JTo
“Please stop it,” My mother sobbed as she struggled to stand. “Please Truth, you’ll kill her!”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPiGbMAnNz
I begun to tear up as well as I watched my younger self’s face turn black and blue from the assaults. What the hell do I do? Nothing I try is working?990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRed03hgqQ
But thankfully, help arrived at that very moment. Another figure entered the doorway and we all looked up to see a blonde woman, who bared a striking resemblance to my mother. She was livid as her eyes darted from my mother on the bed, my father and my younger self. Once again it seems as if I’m invisible.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg79c52Mzjt
“WHAT DID YOU DO!” She screamed to my mother on the bed. “I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THIS!”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1iJKdtVS1
“I’m sorry,” My mother sobbed. “I’m so sorry,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHGodmWGG5
What the hell is going on? Who is she? She looks so much like my mother that they can possibly pass for siblings!990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IMLbbzomI
My father seemed just as confused as he looked back and forth between the two. But before he could’ve said anything, the mystery blonde woman grabbed a vase and smashed it on the back of his head, knocking him out cold. I gasped in shock as she tugged my younger self off of the ground and roughly into her arms before making her way over to me.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVqMwGT0Tk
“GET OUT OF HERE!” She screamed at me as she swatted at my face.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpWbBicgXy
“H-Huh?” I said confused that someone was actually acknowledging my presence.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jqbhP4q5b
“GET OUT!” She screamed again before knocking me over my head with the same vase. 990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNwx4Tn51U
I immediately fell onto my back on the ground as black spots clouded my vision. The crazy blonde bitch stood directly over me, the last thing I saw was her smashing the vase into my face.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLguULPheU
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“AHHHHH,” I screamed as my eyes shot open and I sat up from my lying position. Almost immediately, a hand was on my chest gently pushing me down.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHend8sAdt
“Please calm down Your Highness,” A soft voice said. “We don’t want you to further injure yourself,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ofMvGFRXw
I rapidly blinked as I got a clear view of her. Long, wavy black hair, pretty dark brown eyes; she looked very familiar but I couldn’t remember who she was. “Who’re you?”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZpTO4FmEX5
She smiled slightly before answering. “I’m Blair, Lux’s Mother,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbclXj3Td8I
“Lux,” I repeated. “Then does that mean, I’m back,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXEycbkcKV
“What do you mean you’re back?” She furrowed her brows. “You’ve been here at my house the entire time you were unconscious,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWGrj7aJ9K
“I-I don’t know where I was,” I softly said as I leaned back. “I saw my younger self and my parents and this strange blonde woman who looked an awful lot like my mother,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2qBn7Daeq
“Strange blonde woman?” She pressed as she brought a cool glass of water to my lips.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OEQZ4m57x
“Yeah,” I took a sip of water. “She knocked my father over the head with a vase before knocking me in the face,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ayxAbhbP9
Blair suddenly froze as she stared at me in shock and horror. “Oi? Are you ok?”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22JKEx6hGc
“Y-You dreamt this?” She said astonished.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqT7qDX6nG0
“Yes,” I scrutinized her. “Just now I did. Why?”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwSlnWpMqY
She stammered. “I-I-”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeV2rureg1V
“ALEX!” Pinky and Lux shouted in unison as they rushed over to me. Pinky wrapped her arms around my neck in a tight hug. “Thank God you’re awake! Do you remember what happened?”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7paJIqfsN
“An accident,” I mumbled. “I yanked the wheel from Crimson and we smashed into a tree. He used his body to protect me and...OH GOD CRIMSON!”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn91tDfCOzU
“WHERE IS HE?” I panicked.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRifbFZrsmY
Lux pulled across a curtain and revealed and unconscious Crimson, lying in a bed as bandaged covered his bare chest and arms and one was wrapped around his head. As best as I could, I leaned over to him and gently caressed his bruised but still lovely face. “I’m so sorry,” I whispered. “It’s because of me that you’re like this,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHDFbLXyi8
“He saved your life,” Lux said. “My mom said that if he hadn’t protected you with his body, you could’ve died or suffer more serious injuries than what he has,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyWmBVB2u0
“Crimson,” I said to his unconscious form. “I’m so sorry,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc77uqGokBR
Blair rested her hand reassuringly on my back and I turned to looked at her with narrowed eyes. “Why am I even at your house? Why am I not at the Royal Heartland Hospital?”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZabY1Rxc0
“It was my idea,” Lux chimed. “You said that terrorists were after you, so I figured that the palace would not be a good place to go. Lacey and I weren’t injured as bad as you two from the crash, so I called my mom and she retrieved us,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwl2XciT6t
“I thought she couldn’t drive,” I glared at him.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbc1O6JLb1
“We had a bit of help from my godmother,” He said sheepishly. “She drove you guys back here and treated your wounds. She’s a certified doctor so she knows what she was doing,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP7tivuOyyR
“Lux, Lacey,” Blair said. “The Princess must surely be tired from everything that happened. Can you two prepare her some food and bring her medication?”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTE3Oh0X8J
“Yeah sure,” Pinky said springing up from her spot. “I’ll make you some soup, my mom’s amazing recipe!”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU23zSgq2sv
“Ew,” Lux’s face twisted into disgust. “Who eats soup?”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOpwHAS5e8
“I do!” Pinky chimed as they both walked out the door. “And it’s delicious,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuojQCklBka
“You’re weird.”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcNsHo0imH
“Oh shut up!”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJr10tsFh6M
They continued to bicker until their voices could no longer be heard down the hallway. I turned to look at Blair with expectancy. She took those two out of the room for a reason, and I bet it has something to do with her strange behavior after me mentioning my dream. “You know something about my dream, don’t you?”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdi543tPAn5
She sighed deeply before facing me with a somber look. “I guess their is no hiding things from you. You were always so sharp, even as a child,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GSnyhshCx
“You knew me as a child?” I raised an eyebrow. “I don’t remember you at all,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQOf28TeMu
“You wouldn’t,” She said. “Well at least I thought you wouldn’t,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUS5yM2nqTb
“What do you mean?” I pressed.990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMHWFkbroD
She sighed deeply again before slowly moving to sit on the edge of my bed. “That wasn’t a dream that you had, it was a memory,”990Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bCaPc3TPz
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