Abby had thought about going back to her bed and resumed her sleep but then she remembered that today was her special day!
"I am 18 now!!!! This is the day that I have been waiting for."
She said as she bolted up straight from her bed.
Without even bothering to wash her face or at least combed her hair and fix its hot mess, Abby immediately ran towards her door.
But to her surprise, the door seemed lock from the outside! And no matter how hard she tried to push nor heave the door, it just simply would not budge.
That was when Abby started to had a bad feeling.
"What was wrong with this door?!! Hey! Let me out of here!!!"
She shouted at the top of her lungs, hoping that it would catch the attention of anyone from the other side of the door, but her efforts had only gone to naught.
... SILENCE...
That was all that she got after waiting for a while.
Abby paced back and forth, covering the distance of her room as she tried to think of a way on how she could escape that room.
But when she looked at the mirror, she was surprised to see that her face was already stained with what seemed to be some dried ink.
She hurriedly looked at her hands and saw that the same color of ink was covering her fingertips as though someone illegally took her fingerprints without her consent.
Upon realizing this weird yet suspicious point, Abby's chest started to pound. She was praying internally that it was not exactly what she was thinking it was.
But her gut feeling was telling her that there was a high likey a chance that her stepfamily had already done something to her that she could never forgive.
"MY MONEY!!!! MY INHERITANCE!!!!!!"
Abby screamed with hot tears streaming down to her face. She was pulling her own hair like a deranged patient due to sheer frustration that was bubbling inside her.
But soon after she wiped away her tears.
"NO! There is no point in crying. It won't help me. I have to do something..."
She said in determination as she used her eyes to look around her room. Looking for anything that she could use for escaping
It was then that she realized that her room actually had a window!
"OH, silly me!"
Abby said under her breath as she slapped her forehead.
Without wasting any other second, she dashed straight to her window and opened it to check how high it was from the ground; since the only way for her to escape was through jumping from her room down to their lawn using that same window.
Abby was planning of going straight to the bank to check if her intuition was spot on.
"Errr????"
Abby's face could not help but grimace as soon as she saw the distance between her open window and the ground below. As easy as it may sound, jumping from her window seemed to be a really tough task.
Yet she knew well enough that it was the only choice that she got at the moment.
After all, breaking a bone or two was still a way better option than living the rest of her life as a poor bloke once her stepfamily's scheme succeeded.
Using her bedsheet, blanket, curtains, and even her towel, Abby made use of everything she saw in her room to make herself a makeshift rope.
That was her last resort and she was planning to make use of this makeshift rope to rappel herself down to their lawn safely.
Abby had already used up all the available garments in her room and tied them together, yet it was still not enough to cover the distance from her window down the solid ground.
"Then, I will just have to make do with what I have."
She said as she gritted her teeth. Abby tied the other end of the makeshift rope at the post of her bed. After securing that it was tied properly, she threw the rest of the rope outside her window.
"Alright self, you can do this!"
She cheered herself and then exhaled a mouthful of air afterward. Slowly, she climbed from her window and started rappelling her way down so as she could finally escape.
'TUGSH!'
Abby's butt hit the land first when she jumped but she could not care about it anymore.
Abby briefly dusted herself before running towards their front door.It was left open!"Aunt Sarah???! Mara? Clara?!! Hello?!!!!! Anyone in here? Where are you????"She called out and went to check each of their room but there was no one. Even their closets were empty."They left me?!!!! Did they run away from home???"When this thought crossed Abby's mind, she started to break into a cold sweat and so without wasting another minute of her time, she took a pair of slippers and immediately dashed to the road.To her haste, she no longer noticed that the pair of slippers that she was wearing were mismatched.The road was still wet due fro the previous rain and while Abby was running along with the traffic, a car that passed by her accidentally splashed water towards her direction."HOLY SHEEP!!!"&n
As Abby made her way back to their house, she could not help but notice how the route seemed to become farther than it previously was.She felt as though she spent a long time walking back home compared to the time that she actually took when she traveled from their house going to the bank.It might sound weird but that was what she could observe so far. Perhaps it was due to the mixture of exhaustion and disappointment that had finally taken a toll on her.But nonetheless, after a while of walking, she still arrived at the front door of their house.The house itself looked exactly the same just like how it was before. The only difference though was that it was now empty.There was no Aunt Sarah to boss her around nor no annoying Mara and Clara sisters to make fun of her.It was only then that everything that happened had finally sunk in at Abby. 
"Mister... Please, understand my situation as well. As much as I wanted to pay you, I really don't have even a single penny with me right now."Abby pleaded with all earnestly as she tried to make the old man see some sense. Yet her plea only fell on deaf ears."NO! Give me your money or I swear I will make it sure that you will spend the rest of your dear life inside the cell.""Sir, please. I'm begging you. Please give me some time. I'll look for Aunt Sarah and once I found them, we will pay you back right away. If you want even with interest on top of that."Abby bargained but the other party was really a tough nut to crack"NO WAY! I am certain that you are just trying to dope me exactly like how that filthy wench mother of yours had done to me before. If you guys think that I would fall for the same trick again, you are all wrong! HUH! I am not a pushover!"
****Eugene was not sure how he was able to come back at the land of Marcella nor what was he exactly doing at that place at that moment.It was as though he was teleported back in the past. Some time within the old days, where there was no technology yet. Where mobile phones, TVs and the internet were not yet part of necessity and people could still function just fine even with the absence of electricity.Everything was exactly how he remembered it.From afar, he saw the flocks of seagulls as they migrated and flew towards the other side of the horizon. The squawking sound that they made was slowly being swallowed by the sound of waves.Eugene took his time to clearly observed how the sun that was as big as an orange plate started to dive in the sea; somewhere along the line where the sea and the sky met.After a short while, the sun had gone to completely made its way do
Amidst the raging mob who were gathered at the town plaza, stood a young man on tattered clothes.Contrary to the emotion that dominated the crowd, the young man was in tears as he watched the lady of his dream being burned at stake.The young man was obviously no other than Eugene, himself.He tried his best to muster his resolve and willed himself to think that what he was seeing at that very moment was not for real and all of it was just happening inside his head.It was nothing but a dream!But saying it like that and thinking it that way was not as easy as controlling his emotion. Because for Eugene, it was like he was being forced to relive his most painful memory over and over again.She was the love of his life and yet there he was, doing nothing as he helplessly watched from afar how everything unfold before him.He wanted to spe
Eugene bolted up straight from his bed and woke up with his face wet with his own tears. He subconsciously touched his necklace as soon as he woke up.It was the same necklace that Miyara wore before her death and it was the only thing that he managed to salvage from her.The blaring sound of his TV played on the background as it was left active while she was drowsing since he unknowingly fell asleep on the sofa while watching his favorite show on Netflix.Looking around him, he also noticed that the sun had already departed and it was already dark outside and so he stood up from his seat and opened the door in his veranda, wide enough to let the cold draft of the night enter his living room.He was just about to step outside the house when a small voice sounded behind him and called him out of the blue."Where are you going, master???"It was his sidekick/ pet, Jorah.Jorah was
Abby did not have an idea of how long she passed out or how did she even manage to reach the riverbank in the first place, knowing that she did not know how to swim.The rain had long gone now but the grasses, as well as the soil below her, were still moist. A black trench coat was wrapped around her body to protect her from the cold night draft.Checking herself for any casualties, Abby heaved a sigh of relief when she found none. She thought that she would really die for good back then but thanks heaven, that she did not.Or did she????When that thought crossed Abby's mind, she immediately checked herself again. This time, however, she deliberately stopped herself from breathing for a minute or two. Only when she felt that her lungs were still desperately craving for oxygen did she confirmed to herself that she was still alive and kicking.
Abby was just about to knock on the door when she saw something at the corner of her eyes."MADE FOR HIRE"She read the words written on the placard that was hung at the wooden door."Ohh??? Was it not an act called serendipity??? I am currently in search of a place to stay and this opportunity presented itself to me. Maybe this is the turning point of my life. I should have to give this one a try."'EHEM'Abby deliberately cleared her throat first as soon as she reached the entrance of the old mansion. Then after that, she knocked softly against its wooden door to announce her presence."Excuse me, is there anybody home? I wish to return something from a guy named Eugene and it was said in his ID card that th