Once Upon A Nightmare 1: The Meet disaster

“Once there was a planet named Earth which was destroyed by an evil cursed force; The evil force also went for a system named The Solar System and after that tore through a galaxy name The Milky Way. She wanted to destroy the world after that but was defeated by the only survivor of earth, Agatha Crystal, the creator of Crystalline, Our planet.

The people in our planet are divided into two groups with different beliefs.

Magicers, people who believe in magic, say that Agatha Crystal made our planet with the remaining pieces of earth and crystals using magic.

Knowledgers, people who don’t believe in magic, say that Agatha Crystal was made when a mad scientist replaced the heart of his kid with a crystal.

What are you?...”

I smile glancing up at muffin, my blue-haired dog. She is wiggling her tail in excitement, every morning I have to read the same book to her and she’ll be happy like it’s day one.

I slip down my bed and kneel in front of her, ruffling her hair. “A Knowledger of course…”

Suddenly her whole body freezes, eyes going wide again staring through my soul. shit… I thought I was safe for today… She starts opening and closing her mouth robotically. I fee my shoulders hunch so hard that they touched my ears.

Fuck it Apple-Chris! Stop looking into her eyes! Can’t… Can’t!

Just when I was seconds away from passing out, Alfred, my babysitter robot, sounds his alarm and muffin goes back to normal, licks my face and runs away.

“Phew…That was close….” I mutter standing up and pressing Alfred’s button. “It’s fine Alfred, I’m already up”

He nods and follows me to the bathroom, hands me my green brush and smiles gently as I brush through my short golden-yellow hair.

After I’m done, I look at myself in the mirror to check if my hair looks good, my eyes locks into the chunk of white hair in my bangs and I sigh, can a hair be neat with that?...

I tear my eyes off the mirror and start running to mother’s bedroom, have to say good morning or I’ll end up in the shark pool, harsh? Yeah, I know… mother is… um…. Special…

Before I can knock on the door I see a note stuck to it, I tear it off and begin reading as Alfred catches up with me.

“Your sister and I went to a meeting.Go to your aunt’s castle or sleep in the park.

~Clara Whilson John, Mother”

Tears slowly fill my eyes, why the hell am I crying again?! Why is it still new to me that mother likes Apple better?...

Apple was always the better one, hotter, prettier, more social, more everything-good-in-the-world

I stare at the letter again.

Sleep in the park

I Keep reading it through blurry vision until a metallic hand snatches it out of my hand, I turn, Matilda, my other babysitter robot.

She scans the letter, even though her robotic face stayed unmoving I could see her silver body shaking from anger.

She slowly kneels down and pulls me in, whispering in my ear “don’t worry about her baby. You know that we love you more than anything in the world…”

I close my eyes and lean into her arms; the words were meant to comfort me but they only made the ache in my heart flare hotter, reminding me of the reason I made her and Alfred in the first place…

To finally have someone in the world that loved me and would always be there for me…

After a minute she pulls away, giving me my backpack, turning towards Alfred, “Don’t let those teenagers eat her alive!” she said crossing her arms and walking away.

As you can tell school is no better, a seven-year-old won’t be accepted among eighteen-year-olds.

I was standing in front of my locker, looking for my biology book, begging the world to spare me for today…

“Hey Apple-Chris! You didn’t forget my homework, did you?!”

A chill runs down my spine. Christina Gut, the queen bee, the mean girl, whatever you call it. Worst of all, the daughter of the principal that can get me fired in a damn second!

I slowly turn, forcing a smile, it gets crooked as fuck when I see her boyfriend behind her, Josh Brown, as big and chunky as a teenager can get, terribly strong, and, of course, always eager to beat the shit out of me.

“Christina! Hi! Real pleasure to see you!” I chuckle awkwardly, “you see... um… how do I put this?... I kinda forgot to bring your homework…”

I take a step back as Josh starts cracking his knuckles, “I’m sure we can talk it out, non-violently?...”

Christina smirks, stepping away from Josh’s way as he starts approaching me. Before I can bolt away, he grabs my black tie and pulls me up, throwing my books out of my locker and shoving me in it, my breath gets knocked out of my lungs as my back hits the yellow metal.

Christina picks up my backpack, takes out my own homework and hugs it to her chest.

“Christina please! Dr. Green would never give you an F because of your dad… but an F could ruin my position, my future, my_”

“Then I guess you better pull your shit together as soon as you can and write another one…”

She nods at josh and before I know it his fist comes flying to my face and everything goes black…

I step into my aunt’s castle holding an icepack to my nose, I bet its swollen, hurts like hell.

I was passed out in my locker for two damn hours, and then I got detention for missing class.

I walk into the main hall, Cara’s there talking to a servant, she turns and her face pales seeing mine, after all you don’t see your cousin with a swollen nose every day.

And five minutes later I’m being questioned about everything as a Matilda examines my nose.

“Auntie I swear_”

“SILENCE! You promised to tell me if there was anything wrong at school! And now you come home beaten up! Just give me their name and they’ll be banished from Verrelis!”

Banishing Josh and Christina from Verrelis sounds like the best option on the table, but nobody at school knows that I came from a royal family, I mean if they did, I had to be surrounded by fake friends who were thirsty for our wealth or power, so banishing them would absolutely blow my cover.

“Sweetheart… if you’d just let me help… it’ll fix everything…”

No it will not! Why do grown ups think they can fix everything when all they do make things worse?!

I hate it! So damn much! Hate it when everyone want to control my life!

I’m so tired of everything!

Of aunt Chloe and Cara for caring!

Of my mom and Apple for not caring!

Of Josh and Christina for hating me!

Of Alfred and Matilda for loving me!

“STOP! Fucking get off my back!” I yell pushing Matilda away and running to the stairs, “I’m fine! Everything is fine! I don’t need anything!” I keep yelling as I run up to my room.

“Just fucking LEAVE ME ALONE!” I yell as I slam my door shut, I sink to the floor right there and start crying in my knees.

I cried so hard that I didn’t hear my aunt tell Cara how worried she was for me…

I cried so hard that I didn’t hear Cara call the most optimistic person in the whole world:

Melissa Molly Robert