FOR RUINS

[WARNING for 18+: Triggering scenes ahead.]

“Had you learn your lesson already, Raquel?” Geneva Roswell asked her eldest. She was calmly sitting opposite to her, while she sipped her morning tea.

Raquel nodded her head.

“I am, Ma.” Her voice is empty.

She was motionless, while her mother smiled sweetly as if she didn’t do anything wrong.

“Perfect!” Her mother clapped her hands together. “Now that you have, go change yourself, because you really stink! My God, what kind of filth had clings on you on that place, I could never imagine!”

I could also never imagine that you would put me behind bars. Her grudge was unending.

Raquel submissively stood up and went upstairs.

Under the shower, she scrub her skin. Hard. Until it gets reddened, painful enough to made her sobs. It is not because she was scared anymore, but it was directed to another pain cause by somebody else.

Eliot.

“I was coming. Wait for me.”

But he never did.

Raquel waited, but no presence of him showed up until her mother de