Chapter 4

“Then where is she? Tell me, is she here?” Lila asked, as she scoffed a little, making fun of Monalisa and glancing around her too. 

"Your mum is dead, Monalisa, she is dead… that is the reason why she has not shown up these past fifteen years or perhaps you are worthless to her, that was why she left you to me anyways, she knew how much I hated her but she still left you in my care, to be my slave…" Lila told her spitefully this time, peering hard at Monalisa who peered at her, tears flowing from her eyes down her cheeks.

Lila and Annabel were the only family she had known and no matter how much she tried to please them, they still treated her badly and now she could see that they even wanted her dead and this hurt her even more.

"Leave my house this minute Monalisa," Lila said authoritatively and spitefully, gesturing for her to leave the house. "You have to stay outside tonight, I guess that would make you learn that you are  nothing but a slave," Lila told her again, recalling how Rosy and Monalisa’s Dad, Bryan had kissed each other so passionately the day she had bumped into them, she has not been able to get rid of that memory and she thought it was because of Monalisa who looked so much like her Mum, Rosy.

"Aunt…" Monalisa muttered again, trying to plead with her not to send her out of the house.

"She said leave…" Annabel snapped, moving swiftly towards Monalisa and almost immediately,  she started pushing her out of the house.

"Annabel, it's too cold outside," Monalisa said pleadingly, clapping her hands together in front of her to try and make them stop but it fell on deaf ears because Annabel continued to push her until she was out of the house, slamming the door afterwards. 

“Annabel please let me get my coat at least,” Monalisa begged, speaking on top of her voice this time after the door was slammed in her face but Annabel didn’t respond even though she heard her.

"Mum, how long are we going to continue putting up with her in our house?" Annabel asked in a loud tone as soon as she met her Mum again, wishing that she would just throw her out of the house as she does not want to share their house with her again.

“Until I am done making her pay for her mum’s sins towards me,” Lila replied angrily in a loud tone too and started walking away to her room, feeling her heart swelling with more hatred for Monalisa.

Monalisa unconsciously folded her arms under her breasts as she heard her aunt Lila’s hateful words and the sound of her footsteps as she walked away, wondering what her mum must have done to her aunt to make her hate her this much. She had known nothing but her hatred all her life and also wondered why her mum would leave her in the care of her aunt Lila if she knew that she hated her. 

She has so many questions she wished she could ask her mum if she were here, questions about why she had to abandon her a year after her birth, who her dad was and why she was been punished, she had hoped that Lila was able to tell her the reason why she hated her this much but she didn't.

She took a few steps away from the front door where she was standing to try and find a place that would be warm a little bit, since she was already cold from the cold breeze of the night but after taken a few steps away from the door she paused abruptly as she suddenly heard footstep behind her.

Monalisa paused her head and held her breath at the same time too, suddenly feeling terrified as the stories of vampires, witches and werewolves flooded her memory thinking she was being approached by one of those and afraid too that this was truly going to be her end…