Belle- "Every villain have a dark past. Don't blame me for what I did. I do what I should do."
10 years ago...
She was scared. She scared if her mother found her, she will beat her. So she running to her room. She hide under the bed. Hoping that her mother cannot find her.
She crying all alone under the bed. She can hear her mother shouting and cursing her outside. But she doesn't dare to go out from her hiding place.
"Belle! Where are you?! Come out now! Or if I find you, I will kill you! Belle!" Her mother shouting outside.
She can hear footsteps outside her room. Her heart beats so fast. She can see her mother walking inside her room. Her mother searching inside the wardrobe first.
She watch her mother search for her, inside her room. She really hope that her mother will think that she's not here. So she will go and find at another place. But she can see, her mother walk slowly to her bed. She startled when her mother drag her hand to go out.
"You bitch! Why I have a daughter like you?! Why do I have a useless daughter like you?! You have nothing good! You just know to burden me! Everyday you ask for food, you want to go to school, and have a pretty clothes. And I have to go out to find a job, so I can raise you. But what do you do? You can't even do house chores! You're so rude! You don't know how to thank your mother huhh?! Now let me teach you how to thank me."
Her mother nagging so long. She shouting and pull her hair so hard. She can feel her scalp burning. She want to cry, but she afraid her mother will mad and do something even worse.
But she doesn't know, that even she try not to cry. Her mother will still hit her.
Her mother take a hanger, and start to beat her. At first, she just accept the hit without a word or a sound. But after a few hit, she start to cry and beg to her mother to stop beating her.
But the more she beg, the harder her mother hit her. When her mother stop beat her using hanger, she stop crying and begging to her mom to forgive her.
"Mom. I'm sorry, I will do cleaning next time. Please don't beat me. It's hurt." Belle hug her mother's leg. But her mom kick her, so she have to release her mother leg. Her back knock with the bed structure.
She can see her mother looking around. She don't know what her mom searching for. So she look around too. Now she have stop crying, but she still can feel her skin burning because of the hanger. There's hanger mark almost everywhere on her skin.
After a few seconds, her mother walk to the side of her bed. And reach for something, but she can't see what is it. She was too afraid to look at her mother now.
Then she can see her mother leg is front of her now. She raise her head to look at her mother. She smiling, maybe her mother did not angry at her anymore. Maybe her mother take a handsaplast inside her drawer.
Her mother smile at her and said. "After this, you will not burden me anymore. I will be free from you!" After she done saying that, her mother hit her head with her piggy bank.
She can feel the blood dripping out of her head. She feel like her brain is shaking right now. It's so hurt. She never felt this feeling before. Even when her mother pull her hair, or knock her head with hand. It doesn't hurt like this time.
She look at her mother one last time. Her mother still smiling, so she smile too. Then she knock out and fell on the floor. Her mother walk outside her room. She closed the door and lock it from outside.
Then everything gone dark.
***
Belle open her eyes. It's too bright now. So many lighting on the ceilings. She still can feel her head hurt. Then she look around, no one here. But where's her right now? Then she can see a blood bank was channeled into her veins. Yaa, now she know. She's inside a hospital.
She can hear arguing sound outside the room. She try to stand, but her head is killing her. So she just sit on the bed, and try to hear the argument.
"You can't take her from me! I'm her father! I can raise her, she's my daughter. My only daughter! I can't give the permission for you to take her! Never!" She can hear her father voice. Shouting about something.
"Can't you see what just happened to her when she live with you?! If you love her, you will think about her future! You don't want her to growing up and be like her mother! Don't you?!" Now she can hear her aunt voice. Shouting too.
For a few second, there's a silent outside. She look at the door, but no one come inside.
"I know it's a hard choice for you. I know you love her. But you have to think about her too. Is she happy to live like this? What will happen if she continue to live with you like this? I'm her aunt, Oliver. Ofcourse I want the best for her." Her aunt said. But this time, she's not shouting.
Then the door is open. Her father come inside the room. "Heyy! My little princess has woke up? Are you feeling better? Are your head still hurt? What's in my head, ofcourse it's hurts right? Don't worry, mother will not hurt you anymore. No one will." Her father rubbed her head.
She smile at her father. Her father is a good man. He has never raise a hand to her. He always buy a toy for her. Even it is second hand or broken. But she still like it, cause it's from her father.
She can see her father smile faded. His face changed. "Princess, after this you will live with aunt Sofia. You will live at a big house. You will love it. And you will be a true princess too. Do you like it?" Her father talk softly to her.
She shake her head. "No. I don't want to be a princess anymore. I want to live with you." She said. She try not to cry, because she don't want anyone think she's weak.
"No. You have to be a princess. I have to work everyday. I'm scared I can't take care of you properly. If you stayed with aunt Sofia, she can take care of you. And love you like a Queen love her Princess. If you love dad, please stayed with aunt Sofia. I promise one day, I will take you back. We will live together again." Her father try to comfort her.
She cry, she can't stand it. She love her father. How she can live without her father? When she have been beaten by her mother before, her father will come and put some oil to her bruises. But who will do it later?
"Don't cry. I promise you will like it. And I promise to take you back. You love me right? Please do as I said. It's for your future."
She look at her father. She nodded. She have to do it, because she love her father. Even that she don't know what her father means by 'for your future'. But she will do it for her father.
On that day, her father spend the whole day with her. He doesn't go to work. She was too happy because finally, she can spend the day with her father. She have forgot about she will live with her aunt. She just play with her father like there's nothing happened to her life before.
She is a 8 years old girl, who have to agree to live with her aunt. And parted with her beloved father. She just lose her mother, and now she have to parted with her father. She don't care about her mother, but she feel sad about her father. But she already agree to live with her aunt. There's no way turning back.
