Starcrossed A Game of Fate

I wish I could take a picture, ” Claire said to herself. ”Oh wait. I have a camera. Stay there. Ill go get it. ” With that said, Claire rushed into the house to retrieve her camera.

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”Okay… now get a little closer, you two. A bit closer. Yes… yes… a bit more. Smile. Come on Leyon, stop brooding. Smile like Hikari. Im going to take it now… one, two, three… ”

*CLICK*

”See. That wasn so bad. Leyon doesn know how to pose, look at his blank expression. ” Claire laughed, looking into her camera. ”Should we take one more? The three of us? Oh no. ” Claire frowned. ”The batterys dead. I forgot to charge it. My bad. Maybe next time. Well take it next time. ” Claire laughed sheepishly.

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That night had been the longest for Hikari. Shed spent the entire day at grandma Claires house with Leyon. It was five-thirty in the evening when she walked home. She was sure her mother wouldn mind as long as she told her she was with grandma Claire.

Hikari found the rooms dark and unlit when she finally reached home. Her mother was nowhere to be seen. The feeling in her gut told her something was horribly wrong. Alarmed, Hikari ran, turned on all the lights in her house, and began to search for her mother. Running into the living room, and spotting the broken glasses and spilt liquid on the floor, Hikari immediately knew something terrible had happened between her father and mother. She searched everywhere in the house but couldn find her mother anywhere. A sense of foreboding consumed her as she imagined the worst. All she hoped to God at that moment was to see her mother alive.

”Look whos here, ” a voice interrupted her train of thought. ”Looking for your mother? ”

Hikari gulped in fear. Her father was drunk again. Staring intently at her with his menacing eyes, he approached her. Hikari unconsciously stepped back, her little feet weakly trudging backwards until her back touched the wall behind her. An ominous feeling grew in the pit of her stomach.

”Your bitch of a mother is gone. Shell never come back. Because she ran away with a guy. Shes left you. And shes left me and this is all your fault, ” Hikaris father shouted at her, giving her the most hateful look she had ever seen. ”If only you had been a normal kid, your mother wouldn have left. She left because she was tired of you. Who wants a mute child like you? ”

Tears pricked her eyes, but she did not let them fall. Hikari never would have anticipated this at all; the words spoken by her father ripped her heart apart and tore her soul to shreds. Whatever that was upsetting him, he believed she was the cause of it. He was crazy, mad even.

”Shes never coming back here. I will not let her, ” he continued. ”If she does, Ill make sure to kill you both when that day comes, ” he threatened.

Years of alcohol abuse and gambling addiction reduced him to this unbearably pathetic and miserable state. Hikari didn know what to think. Everything was like a dream, a nightmare to be precise, and she desperately wanted to wake up from it. Her delusional mind processed the idea that if she woke up, everything would be back to normal. Her mother would be there in the kitchen cooking something delicious for her, and her father would have gone fishing in the sea, leaving them alone. And lastly, she never would have heard the terrible news concerning her mother.

”What are you thinking so deeply about? ” her father interrupted. ”This ugly daughter of the bitch, I should teach you a lesson. That way, maybe in the future, you won turn out to be like your mother. ” He cracked his knuckles, a sinister smile spreading across his lips as he closed in on her.

Knowing what her father was going to do, Hikari ran to her room and tightly shut the door behind her. She could hear his angry outbursts coming from the other side of the door. With shaking hands, she desperately held onto the doorknob, trying to drown out his voice. It was only when she heard her fathers voice becoming fainter and fainter that she knew he had gone. Exhaling a long breath she didn know she had been holding, she slowly slid down onto the cold floor and finally allowed her silent tears to fall.