After a moment has passed — Lila opens her eyes, finding herself to be in her room as she then realizes that she woke up and was no longer in her dream. She sits up from her bed, looks around her, making sure that she isn't still dreaming. After clarifying, all around her was real, and that she's back and woken up to reality.

Confused of what she dreamt, and wasn't sure what even the dream meant. All she learned from the dream was a little girl, who seemed happy and content in seeing as well as being with her Prince's side? She thinks that the dream was probably a dream about a little princess with her grumpy prince. And for some odd reason, Lila felt that the dream felt somewhat familiar to her — and then suddenly, she felt a tear falling down her face.

Not knowing why she started crying, or why she dreamt of such a dream? She felt longing from it, as she felt the need to return from the dream and also felt saddened for leaving. Not knowing why she's feeling the way she's feeling now over an odd silly dream. She shook her head and told herself that it was simply a weird dream — as dreams tend to be weirder for people, even for her.

Lila then took a look at the clock in the wall of the bedroom, and saw that two hours passed. She basically slept longer than she anticipated. Then her stomach started to grumble a bit louder and ached so much more than ever before, for being hungry and for not eating for a long time. As she got up from her bed, hoping to see if Olga came back to unlock the door.

But as she jiggled the door knob, seeing that it was still locked. Looking and feeling upset, more tears started to run down, later feeling foolish for ever thinking that Olga would remember that she was still here. She slowly sat down as her back was against the locked door, pulled her legs in towards her, curling herself into a ball; having her face buried between her legs.

Then out of frustration, she banged the back of her head against the door so many times while her stomach grumbled louder, on which filled her eardrums.

Then... she heard footsteps, making her stop from banging her head against the door. The footsteps were closing in, indicating that somebody was coming, as the footsteps got closer and closer, then heard a familiar voice, in a loud hushed whisper.

"Psst! Lilac — I got you something to eat."

"Daisy???" She whispered back loudly, happy to hear her little sister.

"The door is still locked, so Sandy is still getting the key from Olga's room!" Whispered Daisy in a bit loudly, carrying a tray of leftover food for Lila.

"Thank you Daisy, but.... I don't want you two to get into trouble for me... I'll just wait for Olga to come and open the door." Whispered Lila a little loudly — in a concerned, yet weak and tired voice. Daisy then raised her voice a bit more, still in a whisper.

"But you haven't eaten in a week! I want you to eat and get better, quickly... I don't want you to get sick or... or...-" Lila interrupts Daisy, trying to calm her, so that she wouldn't raise her voice.

"It's alright Daisy, I didn't eat for a week because I got in trouble by Olga, remember???" Daisy then spoke back, looking puzzled yet angry. "In trouble for what?!? You didn't do anything! Olga just got mad at you for getting juice for me and Sandy."

"But you have to remember, that she invited her date over and specifically informed us to not come downstairs and ruin her night. I was caught and was later punished for it." Said Lila, trying to synthesize with Daisy. "And you have to understand, Olga hasn't been the same since Sebastian-... left six years ago, and it has taken a toll on Olga since then." Thinking that this was probably the reason for everything that Olga's behavior towards Lila.

"But that doesn't mean why she has the right to treat you like this for all these years!" Shouted Daisy making it loud for everyone to hear.

Lila quickly shushes Daisy through the door — for being loud and tries calming her down, as she feared for the worst. She then hears more footsteps coming in their direction, both hoping that it was Sandy coming back with the key; Daisy's face fell after seeing that Olga was walking towards her; while gripping onto Sandy's arm — Once she let's go of the poor girl's hand, Sandy tried her best in hiding her face from Daisy, what seemed to be a reddened slap mark on her face and eyes filled with tears.

Daisy swallowed her saliva in fear that she'd be next. Olga came closer to Daisy, slapping her hard on the face. As she saw the tray of food on the floor bedside her, already knowing that she brought the tray for Lila. Olga pushed Daisy to the side, making her fall and lose her footing. As she then kicked the tray full of food over, breaking and spilling the ceramic bowl of Mulligatawny soup as well as a glass of water across the floor. Olga looked back at the two girls, looking at them with rage, as if she was betrayed by the two little girls — then, she hastily unbuckles her belt and walked towards them, readying to use it to hit the twin girls.

Lila was hearing all the commotion from the other side of the door — and immediately acted and shouted from her side of the door. "Stop!!! — Stop it please!!! Punish me instead!!! — They had nothing to do with it!!! I told them to unlock the door and bring me food!!!" Shouted Lila, with her eyes bawling with tears. Olga glared at the two girls and said to them, "Is this true?"

Both of them stayed silent, and not daring to look up and gaze at her, as they grew even more scared of what to do and say.

"One of you better tell me the truth this instant..." Hissed Olga in a low menacing voice.

"Otherwise —" She added, while waving the belt around then hitting the door where Lila was behind from. Both Sandy and Daisy jumped from being spooked by the loud whipping noise of the belt and loud thud of the door it hit. As Sandy was holding onto Daisy tightly while trembling in absolute fear of being hit again. Daisy's mouth quivered, and thought that it would be best to tell the truth, and hoped to have some sort of punishment so Lila wouldn't have to. But as she opens her mouth, trying not to stutter in her sentences. "W-we... I-" She stuttered, but was immediately interrupted by Lila's sudden cries and beggings.

"Olga, what I say is true! I told them to not say anything and to bring me the key so that I can eat the food that they have brought me!!!... if anyone has to be punished for such things... then let it be me!!!" Yelled Lila in a scarce crying voice. Olga was finally convinced as she knew deep down that Lila might have bewitched the girls in some way, and made her do her bidding. Olga dismisses the girls, but tells them to head downstairs and to he sure to raise the tv volume up. She looks at them with a cunningly cheesy smile, making the girls grow eerie by her change of personality, as they know very well of her real-self, underneath that mask she wears.

Although both girls were told what Olga said to them to do. Daisy and Sandy didn't want to leave, they felt their feet glued to the floor and were mostly worried for Lila — but Olga was growing impatient with them, so she came closer to them and raised her belt to scare them. They flinched and they quickly ran downstairs, where they quickly went to the living room and turned on the tv, setting it to a kid's show and raised the volume up.

No matter how loud they set the volume up. The twin girls heard a door unlock, upstairs. Then heard a loud bang and thud, then immediately heard whips and screams upstairs. Although the television was already on high volume, and both covered their ears as they sobbed, hearing the loud cries of Lila — crying and begging for help as she was being punished.

"YOU INSOLENT WITCH! HOW COULD YOU BEWITCH THOSE TWO LITTLE INNOCENT GIRLS!" Shouted Olga while continuing beating Lila to the pulp.

"YOU DROVE SEBASTIAN AWAY! AND NOW YOUR TRYING TO USE YOUR WITCHCRAFT ON THE GIRLS TOO!?! YOU FUCKING WITCH!" Shouted Olga, while her yelling and Lila's screams of agony echoed loudly upstairs to the downstairs living room.

Daisy and Sandy both hugged each other, as they wept for their older sisters' tormented cries. Sandy sees her younger twin, sucking on her thumb while gripping on Sandy's shirt. She then lets Daisy hug her doll Amber, as she saw how terrified she was of what was happening upstairs. This helped a bit, but still couldn't drown out the loud cries. Both Daisy and Sandy hugged each other tightly again, holding on to the Amber doll — telling each other that it would be okay, and that they had each other. While the mix sounds of both cartoons from the tv, as well as the horrific sounds playing in the background — both girls sobbed some more and almost took back what they said, as they both thought how any of this was going to be okay?

After an hour passed, Olga leaves the room — finishing on what she did — leaving Lila on the cold wooden floor where she beat her senseless, leaving the bedroom door open then headed back to her bedroom. Daisy and Sandy quickly ran upstairs as they heard that the coast was clear. They quickly ran up to see if Lila was alright, but once they reached the bedroom, they were mortified by the scenery of what they were witnessing before them. Lila was on the floor, covered in belt markings and what seemed that in some places, the belt broke the skin — scarring her upper arms, legs and abdomen area, as blood started to slowly show.

Lila hears that both girls came into the room, seeing her in her condition and tried getting up. Where Daisy and Sandy ran quickly to help her, as they saw her struggling. Once they helped her up, she slowly made her way to her bed, and sat there, while getting her worn out torn blanket to cover herself, to not have the girls seeing her saddened state any further. Catching her off guard, they immediately hugged Lila, with tears and sobs, whereas Lila hugged them back tightly, where the three of them began crying their eyes out.

Lila faces them, while wiping her tears off her face, looking concerned and worried for the twins. As she speaks in a weak quivering voice to them.

"Are you two alright???"

"We should be asking you that!" Shouted Sandy, chokingly with tears falling down her face even more.

"Why would you do that!? Why would you lie and let her beat you?!" Shouted Daisy, she spoke in turn for Sandy, as they both tried to fathom what Lila's reasons may be for taking in this type of torment and sacrifices for them?

"I'd rather it be me to have the beatings, than having you two being beaten. And I gotta tell you... You're both lucky that it wasn't you two... otherwise, you both would've been in more serious pain-" Lila tried her best to give the two an insight as well as an explanation, but just angered the twins by her reasons. So much so that Sandy then snapped at Lila, as she and Daisy couldn't believe what they were hearing?

"We're serious Lila! You should stop this or else this will become far worse for you! We don't want anything bad happening to you!" Lila was shocked to see and hear Sandy raising her voice at her, as she and Daisy have never done so to begin with.

"We are not going to just stay back and watch you killing yourself like this... It scares me... us... we don't want to lose y-you... If only you see that by now..." Daisy then added, as she was choking up from the thought of what she feared would happen if Lila continued protecting them.

Lila saw them worrying for her, she knew how much they loved and cared for her, as she was the only one responsible for taking care of the two; making sure they are safe and protected. Ever since Sebastian's disappearance, things haven't been the same with them living in the house. Olga, their mother, let alone caretaker had changed after their father's disappearance — Lila has always remembered her as a loving person, caring, and nurturing parent, who loved her family deeply. But now and ever since then... she was someone who despised Lila from her very core. Lila feels that she is a completely different person than the kind loving mother from before, as she feels that the person from her childhood and the person who was living them, were completely different people. As the one she has living with them, was a complete opposite, and is a cruel person, who looks at her as if she were a parasyte. Breaking the news to her at the age of six, of her not being their child, that she was an orphan — and that she and Sebastian took her in when she was an infant, who was left on their doorstep. After blaming her for making Sebastian disappear, Olga had forced her out of school, and made her take care of things such as cooking and cleaning — things to make up for everything that Lila did. Which in reality, it didn't. And she was really stuck in being a slave, never setting foot outside, and being kept indoors to be Olga's 'punishing bag' for whatever Lila did to give her a reason to 'discipline' her — or whenever she felt like it.

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