I'm a curse

    Everyone sees him as a curse, , he himself might think so since wherever he went are always disasters.

    It all starts when he was only five years old, at a cold winter night when a birthday that was supposed to be a perfect harmony turn into a bloody night in the cold winter. An enemy had made his birthday a nightmare as he watch as all his twenty two family members died.

    "Remember you must live, promise me you will live and grow old, little cy" his mother held him in her bloody arms as she tuck the the Jade necklace into Cyrus hands. "Promise me ,cy you will live for me, for all of us"his mom said again. Little Cyrus nodded his little head as he watch his mother gave her last breath. Cyrus cried all night for his lost family and that was the end of the Phoenix family.

    Young Cyrus walk in the cold winter night as he look for a way to survive in his lonely life. he beg for a plate of hot noodles but was thrown out. As the little boy lay by the side of the rock waiting for death, a trader pass by him as he was crossing the mountain. The kind-hearted man took him to an inn and bought him food. " would you like to stay with me " the trader Andrew ask the boy ."yes yes" Cyrus nodded eagerly with a bright smile as Andrew smile back. Poor little Cyrus never knew what await him was another hell.

        Going back to the home of his new dad but when everyone from the Andrew family saw Cyrus natural silver like hair, they thought of him as bad luck to the family, a curse that would follow them but Andrew ignore them but took care of Cyrus as his son. That alone made him a eyesore to Andrew wife and three sons.

         Cyrus taught all was ok until when days pass and Cyrus realize he is nothing in his new family.As time goes on, soon enough, Andrew left the village to the town to do business as before but that was just the beginning of hell for Cyrus.

 "Cyrus wash the clothes", "Cyrus wash the dishes","brat mop that floor clean"- they would all say. Cyrus could only obey, or he would be tortured by his step siblings. Under the hot sun he chops all the five household firewood and all the clothes till his hand gets peeled and wounded.

Under the heavy rain,his step Brothers all stays at home while Cyrus stays in the rice farm, farming until the leeks sucks his blood. During dinner Cyrus felt like an outsider.

Months passed and the worst came. Andrew was brought home by his neighbor who said he was beaten and robbed on his way home from the mountains but that was not the worst until most of the family members saw that the business was failing and might be locked down.

    Everyone in the spring village saw Cyrus as a curse ,a witch , bad luck. when Cyrus was sent on an errand, he would get beaten up on the streets by the kids. Adults cursed him every time they see him , calling him " the cursed child" , his mate call him " the white witch " .And all this , the little boy cries quietly in the dark .😔😞

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