Dracula's Munchkin.

NINE.

Priscilla POV.

Once home things didn’t go well as I hoped, I wasn’t told to go to my room and stay there as I hoped, instead mom and dad were extremely mad. Even Olivia and Henry were mad, only Luke said he’s hungry and went to make food, trust my older brother to be hungry in time like that while my parents were ready to eat me alive.

“Told you we should leave the scary cat at home” Olivia says before going up to her room, well our room, but I’m not allowed to have more than my bed and things neatly folded and placed away.

“Not now Olivia” dad says to her while still giving me the glare.

“Go to your room” mom says, I wish those words were said to me, I wish I could just jump away and hide, but the words weren’t meant to me sadly, when I tried to get up and hide.

“Not you” dad says dead serious, making me freeze, I’m dead meat, take me back to Dracula’s place, I felt safer there.

Now that my siblings have left me to the wolves, it’s time to face the music, I kept my head down avoiding eye contact not to aggravate them any more than they already are. They don’t start talking right away, they don’t yell nor do the first hit, we just sit there in the tension waiting for them to break it, to say something.

“We are very disappointed in you Priscilla” mom says, when aren’t she?

“We thought you were ready” dad says, well clearly I’m not, just send me to bed already.

“We’re going to make you ready” he adds, oh s**t, oh s**t!!!

I felt hot searing pain on my left cheek, before I could process what happen my mother start talking rapidly in an angry voice.

“You don’t talk like that not in this house” she scolds, oh, that’s what the slap was for, I said the word out loud…

“Now to your room” she says, well gladly, I ran toward my room, hide under the blankets crying, I saw my sister busy on her phone, she didn’t care of even take a second glance toward me or my crying.

I closed my eyes trying to escape the pain, my thumb found it’s way toward my mouth, a move that always helps with the pain, emotional and physical before I finally fell asleep but now before I heard my darling sister say.

“She’s even sucking her thumb like a baby”

I think I cried some more even while sleeping, my dreams were filled with dark creature, wolves howling, I was terrified of the dark but I can’t say so, there was no place for fear around our home.

When I woke up, well I haven’t waken up on my own, I was shaken awake by an earthquake, except it wasn’t the earth shaking, it was my mother shaking my brains up trying to get me to wake up. I’ve hardly slept few hours and now she’s waken me again, I looked at her with pained expression, does she know how tempted I am to close my eyes and go back to sleep, but instead I had to keep both eyes open and get up under her orders.

I thought I was awaken to go to school, it’s too late for our before dawn working out sessions, but it’s still early enough to make it to school, but I wasn’t told to get ready for school.

“Get dressed you got special training today” those were my mother’s words, the last thing I would like to hear in this glories morning.

I got up and got ready, what other option did I have, stay in bed and have my bum kicked for not getting up on time, having to live through hers and dad anger, no thank you very much.

My body was still sore, it hurt everywhere, it hurt to walk, sit and even stand. I had a terrible headache and I was starving but didn’t dare to say a thing.

Mom dragged me outside, out to our backyard, it open to the forest surrounding the area, if I look real good and focus, I could see some of Dracula’s castle from here even in the day light that place still looks scary, it hold it’s own magic.

“Head in the game” mom says slapping the back of my head, with how many hits I’m receiving to my head, I’m worried I’m getting a concussion or brain injury.

I went back to the practice dad had me doing, it was pure torture, I don’t think even the military had to do this much workout that I’m forced to do right now. I had the same don’t ask, just do rule as them anyways, I might have asked few times but the answer wasn’t a nice one.

By the end of the day, I was exhausted more than ever, I couldn’t even stand, but my dad wasn’t done, he still told me to run some lapses as a cool down, that’s not a cool down, that’s a workout on it’s own, I took one step, then another, before I fell on the ground my eyes going black.

I was tired, hungry, groggy, I couldn’t even lift my head, my bed felt extremely hard underneath me, my eyes refused to cooperate first, I was ready to get back to sleep but then I felt something on my leg, that got me screaming and getting up the bed, it wasn’t my bed.

I was on the ground still outside, I remember fainting, and dad just left me here! We weren’t even close to home, what if I was attacked by a wolf or something worse. I felt hot tears going down my face, they don’t even like me, no one do, whatever job we’re practicing for, I’ll show them I can do it!

I decided to do it on my own, I’ll just get to Dracula’s castle alone, I don’t even know what I’m going to do there, but I’m going and I’ll show them! I’ll show them all!!

I had no idea how to get to Dracula castle, it’s an hour drive from town, but we don’t live in town, we’re on the edge, meaning it’s more than hour to get there. I could walk, but it’ll take me all night and maybe a day to get there.

I did the thing I usually do when no one would drive me to school, I started walking, it took me a good half of the night to get to the town, usually it doesn’t take me that long but I was exhausted and hungry! Starving to be honest!

But I made it there, I had no money on me to get me any kind of food, although I would love some but I wasn’t about to beg for money from some strangers.

I waited for the town bus, great idea I know, I’m a genius! The bus is free inside the town, it would take me close enough to the castle but I’ll still have to walk the rest. Sitting inside the bus was never easy for me, I always wanted to move and look around, it’s also filled with creeps especially this late night.

Thankfully with how bad I smell no one got close to me, I was left alone, I gave myself a big pep talk, I’m strong, I can do it, I’ve been practicing every day for it. Although I still have no idea what that job is or what I’m going to do once there, maybe just get in investigate and come back home showing them I can do it.