Jealous
Melina became so upset how Scarlett had tricked her into receiving yet another punishment for something she purposely did to her out of spite. She knew the reason behind her actions but didn't understand the cruelty. Melina received ten hard his on her hand by her house parents with a wooden spatula as she rubbed her red palms as she tried to ease the sting of her framed punishment.
She saw Scarlett smiling behind her as the house parents back was turned away. It was the weekend so after she was forced to clean her room up as the other girls was waiting for her to eat and the food grew cold in her absence when she came to the table finally she could feel all of her eyes as they secretly cursed at her making them wait to eat and the food got cold.
When she got done she was sent down to the pastures to pull thistles as a reminder of her sore palms. The other girls snickered at the added punishment as Melina decided she wasn't going to do it. She didn't do anything to deserve this. She was just part of a petty war for a petty group of girls. Scarlett had kitchen duty as she smiled knowing Melina had to pull thistles in the hot sun all day.
All the while she had house duties in a cool house to do all day. When there was no one looking Melina went to the woods as tears rolled down her cheeks in anger. Scarlett was sending a clear message that she should leave her horse alone.
She sat there and cried as she could hear footsteps approaching and she wasn't in the mood to entertain her hunter.
The nightmare of her closet door being opened made her a little off balanced already when she barely had any sleep the night before. And her anxiety rose up as she couldn't get back to sleep. And Scarlett messing up her side of the room on purpose made her look like she was lazy and bad. Then making the entire house wait for her to finish before they could eat was like a nail in her coffin as she didn't have many friends in the home .
" What happened little one." Said the voice as he approached. As Melina let out a very ugly sniffle in response.
I had a nightmare and woke up to my closet open and my fear took over. Then I went to the stalls for morning clean up and Scarlett's horse wanted me to pet her and she got mad at me and told me she would help me clean up the room and turned out she made it look like I didn't do my chores. The house parents got mad and spanked me. I was late to breakfast and the food was cold because everyone had to wait for me to do my chores and now everyone hates me. Cried Melina as she huffed in between words and sobs.
Little one your heart is your weakness. The best way to get rid of a fear is to face it .when you are scared it's because you allow yourself to be scared.he said as he imagined offering advice to his own daughter he never got to mentor.
I don't know how not to be scared it's all I know said Melina now wiping her face.
Actually you do know how to be something.said the hunter as he layed his hand on her small shoulder in comfort.
Like what said melena feeling sorry for herself and her situation.
You know how to be powerful. You defeated me and you are in the beginning of your powers . You were scared to die and you faced it. This time in your life is bad but it's going to get worse before it gets better . He said as it hurt his pride to admit defeat.
I was protecting myself. Said Melina as she felt odd about how this man treated her. The bullying was because she too small but this girl named Scarlett bullied her because she could. As her own blood sister Paula thought it was funny and made jokes of it the day she was drug through the garden by her hair. Melina was convinced her sister Paula's favorite pastime was making her pay for being taken away from their parents. She was angry and wanted her father as she was a daddy's girl and her name sake was Paula after her father Paul .
She remembered hearing stories how Paula placed her thumb in her private areas to memic a male appendage and their father always wanted a son and only got girls. He went out and got a blue wooden bat and baseball caps and was looking forward to a boy. Even Melina's birth was an accident as her mother had an IUD inside of her when she became pregnant and it was still inside when they told her she was pregnant with Melina.
That accident of birth she was the child that came that wasn't supposed to be here and by some small miracle she was here. She was strong ,and she was powerful. When Melina was in daycare her mother would move her to another room to sleep, play,or eat. She told Melina it was because she worked in the daycare and children of the employees were seperated . In fact when Melina would have her nightmares or become angry books would fall off the shelves and walls or objects would levitate without warning.
Her mother was scared of Melina . She was scared of what her daughter could do. When Melina was four years old she still hasn't uttered a single word. She would just point and make noises. She had to go to a speech therapist to learn how to articulate and find the root cause why she refused to speak.
No one even thought of trauma being the cause as in her house she was told it was our little secret you won't tell will you. Alot of things she wasn't supposed to tell and thus she felt like she had no reason to talk at all. She would grow frustrated that she wanted to speak and no one understood her.
Melina wanted to trust the words this hunter had said to her after all he had saved her in the baptism bath and stopped trying to harm her for now. He told her things he held dear to him and confessed his guilty admissions.
What can I do about Scarlett.I asked as I was tired of getting in trouble because of her . A few months back she threw mud all over the back side of Melina as it splattered all in her hair and clothes ,which turned out to be cow patties and not mud. The other girls started laughing. This was a usual pass time . In the system you are only as good as your strength. Being mean and a bully was a point of acceptance.
If my sister mia or my oldest sister was here they wouldn't let Paula gang up on me and turn other girls against me. Thought Melina as she had a sister here to protect her and yet she was also her enemy. Being kind hearted and good natured here made it where you paid the price for being weak and pathetic. Here everyday was a fight waiting to happen. Alliances was forged and lines were crossed and there was secret wars everyone knew and no one spoke about.
If you spoke to the wrong person here they had a problem with you. I was young and my only friend was a preachers son and a hunter. I was moving mountains with popularity in here.
Well for Scarlett you have to stand up to her . She will torture you because you know something about her she don't want anyone to know. She isn't a nice girl so you don't need to be nice to her either . Come here let me show you how to fight. Said the hunter as he jerked me up on my feet as we practiced fighting moves and slaps ,punches and kicks as he was patent with me as he showed me how to defend myself.
This went on until it was time for me to be picked up to go back to the house. I ran back to the field of thistles as I put my gloves back on and pulled a few thistles as you were supposed to pull from the roots to get rid of them from returning but all I needed was to break off the tops to look like I pulled more than I actually did. The hunter taught me a lot about myself . The house parent picked me up as I went home as he looked at me as I was cleaner than he thought but he didn't say anything to me. It was his fault he left me alone in a field to pull thistles and thinking o would do it.
We went inside to shower and get ready for dinner as Scarlett and Paula was in the room laughing at me. I knew I couldn't fight them both so I walked past them fast to get in the shower before dinner .