CHAPTER ONE: Winter Part 1

Winter. It is the time when the sun will never shine, and small flakes of snow falls from the darkened sky. It is when the first snow fell that young bastard Aurora hated the most. The time when she became alone in her life and everything became unbearably hard. The time of her loss for the only person who gave her love.

Young Aurora was once happy. She had her loving mother to care for her. She was contented on how they live their life as a maid servant at her fathers household. Her mother was the personal maid of the mistress of the house – her fathers official wife. Young Aurora was helping her mother to serve at day while her mother will always teach her at night. She couldnt wish for more.

At 7 years old, Aurora noticed how her once healthy and beautiful mother became sickly pale and thin. She was always sick, and she wasnt getting any better. Then her father suddenly restricted her mother to go outside and work. Aurora's mother (Anastacia) was confined in a white beautiful room with machines and tubes connected to her body. Aurora couldn't understand what was happening to her mother and her strange sudden sickness. She thought her father was helping to cure her mother, but little did she know.....

Aurora's life became miserable, with her mother sick and not on her side. At a very young age, she replaced her mothers place at the house work. But instead of serving the Mistress, she was to serve all her six older half-sisters. She took it without complain because Aurora knew that it was her only payment to her father for helping her sick mother to get better. Her sisters were bad and mean. They always assault her verbally and sometimes physically. One time when she tried to fight them, she ended up being punish by the Mistress. They didnt give her food for the whole day and she had to work extra hours. In addition, she had to sleep in the barn of horses for the whole week instead of the small cottage that she and her mother live. Aurora then learned her lesson not to fight for herself from her bully half-sisters. But its all okay for Aurora so long as they cure her ailing mother. She rarely sees her now that she was working. They couldn't even let her sleep beside her mother. Aurora can only visit her once a week.

At her 10th birthday, Aurora was so happy that her mother was strong enough to celebrate her birthday with her. She was too excited to think for a reason nor to notice the strangeness of everything. Her mother surprised her when she took her in the rose garden – their favorite place. In there, was laid a picnic mat with a lot of foods and a one big cake. Her mother was laughing with her, smiling happily and enjoying everything there were to eat. It was then when the happy atmosphere disappeared that young Aurora noticed the pain behind her mothers smiling face. She saw the tears in her mothers lovely caramel eyes – the same eyes with her. The dryness of her mothers skin and the darkening of her mothers reddish lips.

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