Right Left Wrong [Bliss/Kro'ka]

tw: abusive parents

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Lorenzo, the rotten man who adopted me and tries to convince me to call him 'Dad', was finally out of the house for the day, and he'd taken Charlotte, his bitch of a wife who wanted me to refer to her as 'Mom', with him. My sister Bliss and I were left in the house by ourselves, which was something that happened somewhere between extremely seldom and absolutely never. Usually, Lorenzo and Charlotte were too afraid that we'd mess up something in the house while they were gone. We knew better than to do that, though. If we did, surely all Hell would break loose for us, and we'd be beaten into next week. Then again, Lorenzo would beat his children for no reason sometimes, too. We didn't have to have actually done something wrong.

They left together, saying that they had to go run some errands, and I didn't dare question as to what those errands were. When they were gone and all the way down the street, out of view, I then, finally, moved away from the window. It was finally safe to speak my mind freely. My gaze shifted over to Bliss. She was more of family to me than Lorenzo and Charlotte ever could be, even though she wasn't my family by blood, either. She actually cared about me and treated me right. The same couldn't be said for Lorenzo and Charlotte.

"Bliss," I said, looking at my sister. "Can you believe they just left us here alone? We can actually talk. We can say what we want, and we won't get hit for it I- I can't believe it!"

The joy was audible in the tone of my voice.

"C- can I hug you?" I asked her, an actual sense of hope filling me, rather than fear. Hugging was something that never really happened in this particular Moon household. At least, it had never happened since we'd been adopted, and I was sure that it never happened when Zagreus was alive, either. They never treated him right.

I thought about seeing Zagreus in the Games. I'd never known him before the Games, but I could tell that there was something wrong, just by looking at him. I didn't know what it was at the time, but now I do. He went through the same things that Bliss and I go through now, without him here. Although, I fear that he may have had it worse. I could never truly be sure, though, as that's truly not something that I could ever bring up to Lorenzo and Charlotte. They'd kill me, almost definitely.

I just hope that I don't end up the way that Zagreus did, where his only options to escape the abuse were to either go into the Games and win, or go into the Games and die.

Unfortunately, one day, I may be in that position. At least for now, today, in this very moment, Bliss and I are okay. We can talk. We can say whatever we want, and we won't have the retaliation we've had every other day of living with the Moons. Well, at least until they get home.

When Lorenzo and Charlotte get home, who knows what would happen. They might beat us for the things they never heard us say, just because they assume that we spoke out against them when we were alone, or that we did something wrong, somehow, at some point while they weren't around.

I just hoped that they were gone for as long as possible.

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words: 583
table by Ryan
lyrics: "Right Left Wrong" by Three Days Grace
tag: Sleepy Fluttershy