Cry, Even Better If You Beg (Chat Story)
Prologue
Father
"When the flowers bloom in the spring, let's go to the park together."
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
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Layla vividly remembers the day her father promised that she felt vain to shake off her tiny shoulders.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(Her face was withered with a dull smile when she made that promise.)
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(Those were my father's last words.)
Or her mother's for not living up to her promise?
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
*Sad*
And spring never came again.
Layla was reminiscing the memory of her father's who once promised her and failed to keep up, while traveling in a train.
It wasn't the sweetest nor the bitter one, yet something she couldn't forget but relish.
And hence, after her only parent's death she took on a journey, crouched in the corner of a train, as if she was desperately hiding herself.
The life of a child left alone in the world, forced to move from one relative's house to another.
Disdain
The life of a child left alone in the world, forced to move from one relative's house to another.
It was tiring, mixed with abuse and suffering.
Aunt's son
You have to do what we say if you want to stay in our house.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
No!! I don't want that!!!
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
Let me go!!!
When she retorted, she faced her misery.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(My aunt's children harassed me as if they were going to kill me at every opportunity.)
His curt words made her crumble in fear of losing the shelter she hoped for.
Aunt's son
I don't care if you are a relative or not, I'll send you to an orphanage!
Aunt's son
Why do we have to take care of a girl abandoned by her own mother?
She was forced and shoved into the lake.
Then, her aunt's sons and others dragged her mercilessly back into house with her injured body.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
*Badly wounded*
And immediately, she was faced a punch from her uncle.
Uncle
It's all because of that b@stard.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
*Bleeding from mouth*
Uncle
I've had bad luck since I let her into this house.
No one could do anything to stop his brutal abuse.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
*Feeling dejected*
Especially on the days when he lost money at the gambling tables.
Aunt
Are you trying to kill that girl?!
Uncle
I'll let you go this time!
Aunt
*Crying and consoling Layla*
Those nights would be the longest and coldest.
She would cry herself to sleep, but her eyes won't fall at ease.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(I was living in a hell.)
She resented herself every time.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(But what can a child that got nowhere to go can do?)
She would console herself by saying this to herself.
However, bad things kept happening like an overnight's snow storm.
Aunt
*Biting her lips in disdain* 😓
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
Aunt... I'll always stay silent, I won't bother you.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
I'll listen to you and do every think you ask.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
So please don't abandon me... okay?
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
😢🥺😢🥺😢🥺😢
Hope
She shook Layla's tiny hands off her sleeve.
Aunt
Go find another relative and ask them to let you live with them.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
Aunt...
Layla's eyes filled with tears and smudged with wounds and her bright red lips standing out in her pale complexion at the winter's morning.
Aunt
Anywhere is better than here, right?
Tired of her own husband's abuse, she sighed.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
.....
Once again, she was left alone on the road during the coldest days of the winter.
After that she visited another one of her relative's house.
One uncle said, "You're a girl, You're worthless.
You'll just cost me money."
One aunty said, "What did you do to get kicked out? I don't want a girl like you in my house."
Another Uncle
Look, how do you expect us to take care of you? Even if you're quiet, it won't be enough...
There was no one willing to take care of an orphaned child.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(A girl abandoned by her own mother...)
After being rejected by all the relatives, her hopes crumbled to dust.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(Maybe it's normal...)
When she was looming with her own conclusions, the uncle called out.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
*Jolted*
Another Uncle
Do you know where 'BERG' is?
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
...Yes.
Another Uncle
*Wrote something on a paper*
As if the hope itself found it's path towards her, but afraid to believe in.
Another Uncle
Go there and find this person.
He handed over the paper to her.
Another Uncle
I wrote the contact information here.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
He left, desperate, glancing over his shoulder, as if he would have definitely took her in if he hadn't had mouths to feed.
Layla stayed there itself for a few moments to believe in the characters on the paper in her hand.
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(Can I...)
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
(Feed on this hope?)
Layla Lewelline (11 to 12 yrs old)
*Blank stare*
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