Chapter 2

Saaya and her gang tried to get me to be late on my way home but I managed to pass them. Sadly, they managed anyway to make me late on my way home. Father was standing in the doorway waiting for me.

The moment I hopped in, he slapped me so hard I fell. My crutches knocked out off my hand. I landed on my broken foot. "How do you fucking expect me to live? If you expect me to let this shit pass think again. Now get in that fucking kitchen bitch!" exclaimed Father. Knowing tonight's beating will be worse; I make him his favorite, Roast Beef with vegetables.

It was pointless. As soon as Father finished eating, he left to get his belt. I stood there waiting telling myself it would be over soon. When he returned, he had mad look in his eyes. He was no longer my father. It is times like this that I realize the man I once knew as 'daddy' had become the monster of the man he once was.

I looked at the belt he had chosen. It was not a standard leather belt, but a black leather belt covered with sharp, pointy, and white spikes. I stood there with my head held high. He first hit me across the stomach forceful. Involuntarily, I doubled over in pain. With only my back open to him, I hit me there too. After 20 blows across my body, I was starting to black out.

Flashback

"Everyone into the storm cellar" yelled a worried mother. "Okay Mommy", two girls replied a pink haired girl and a small brown haired girl. A tornado was about to be hit. The Father hugged them all tight in a hug. The tornado was close overhead when the pink haired girl realized she had forgotten her most precious toy in the house that was soon to be destroyed. She left the safety of the shelter to get it. The stressed and tired Mother ran after her daughter. "Megumi, no!" the father yelled. It was too late. The tornado hit. Amu's mother managed to jump on top of her daughter. She was killed instantly. Her last words to her daughter were "You are too special to die, too important, too beautiful, and too precious, Cupcake." Her daughter was hurt but not killed. Her mother's body was never found.

End of Flashback

I was in tears of the memory, the memory of my mother's death. I looked around the house we lived in. I managed to find my crutches. I skipped to my room. The pain was intense. I took a look at my body. I had bruises, red lines, and dried blood in the places that had bled. Even my cast was broken. (I am so sorry if this isn't true or can't happen but I have never broken anything before so I don't know.) I fixed myself up by applying healing crème to the swelling red marks, I got my secret stash of bandages and put them over the bleeding spots, and I made a new cast for myself. With that all over I studied for the biggest test of my life that will be tomorrow…

When I woke up the next morning, the red marks were gone but my body was acing. I got dressed. I put on my normal still. I put on the same sweat jacket but a different pair of sweatpants. I don't have that many clothes so I really look pretty. I made Father his favorite breakfast and left my nightmare house.

The time I came into the school was a good time. Saaya and Tadase were having their daily make out, so I hopped quietly past them. They didn't even give me as much as a glance. They were too into themselves.

Today was a very big day. The thing is that I not only look like a nerd, I am one. Ever four years the whole planet takes a special test, the hardest test on the planet. No one has ever gotten all the questions right on their first try. I happen to have been sick every tome the test was taken but not this year. If I happened to win I would get a very important prize. The prize is an international educating for two years.

I had already studied last night and in homeroom so, I was prepared. When I entered the classroom I felt like a magic within me. explained the instructions. She stared the timer and I began.

The first question was easy for me and apparently everyone else. Question number two was even easier but it stomped some people, but others continued. The third question was even easier than the second and first but, the answer was unknown for everyone who was still going. The questions got easier for me as I went on. It was like I had a sixth sense.

By the time I was done, most people just finished their fourth questions. I could only hope that I had got every single one of the 200 questions right. Since I was done early, I read one of the library books I had checked out, a manga.

Finally the class period was over. explained that she would have our graded tests in a week. The day went by extremely slow but it was over soon over. Finally, I was hopping home.

Father had drunk so much he passed out on the couch. I was free of a beating for a day. With nothing to but make dinner for Father when he wakes up, I finished my book. It was about a magical world where dragons, mermaids, fairies, elves, dwarfs, and kings and queens lived. I loved books like that. It was me happy to think a world like that existed. I began daydreaming on if there was a prince just for me. That didn't last that long. I soon began dreaming on if I passed the test, if I won. I probably won't fit in were ever I went. I frowned. I got on my knees and looked at the evening star. I made a wish, the wish to be able to fit in where ever I went…