《Story of my life》


 End of misery

    I''m a waste of space, that what I''ve been told ever since I was a baby.


    [ You''re a nuisance]


    That''s what my mother always told me giving me a cold look. It was early morning, I got ready for school and went to the front door. My mother was in the garage, in her custom black BMW G30.


    My mother came from a very rich family, her father is the head of a multinational group of companies. She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, therefore, she always looks down on other people. She had two brothers but she was the most spoiled of them all.


    My father came from a humble background, his family run a local business chain and where the richest people of their neighbourhood. He got his degree from country''s best University joined mother¡¯s father¡¯s company and rose to the rank of CEO.


    Father then caught grandfather¡¯s eye and he used his power to force him and mother into an arranged marriage. But mother wanted to be a free woman and father was sort of a playboy. They don''t get along at all and always bicker with each other. Sensing their falling relationship grandfather again forced them to have a baby, thinking it can start a good relationship between them.


    I remembered when I was small mother told me that she only had me to have her father¡¯s property, if I were to be a genius or a prodigy in any field of life thing could turn out differently. My parents have given up on me a long time ago and so do I, no matter how hard should I work, they would never acknowledge me.


    Mother went toward the airport in her car and I went toward the bus station for my bus. Mother would be going to Germany for a week for her business. She inherited a part of grandfather'' company. My grandfather from mother''s side passed on a year ago, as he promised her he left one-third of the company to her. While my father is in Russia for a month.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.


    I reached the school on time, in class since everybody knows that I''m a son of some bigshot family no one tries to bother me. I don''t have any friends, when I got into fourth grade, I invited my friend over to my house without telling my parents but he got kicked out from the front door and I was punished, since then I never got any friend.


    I''m seventeen, bound to be eighteen next month, my parent already told me to leave them alone after that, since recently they are planning to be divorced since grandfather is dead they are free to do as they please only thing holding them back is me.


    I went to my class, and grab my usual seat, and the first Lesson started, it was physics which was taught by a strict but young beauty. She was the secret crush of every boy in our class which they admit openly except me. I don''t have any interest in girls or anything in particular. The main reason for that is I don''t want to bother people, I don¡¯t want them to look at me the same way my parents do.


    After six hours, all of today''s classes ended. Since I have a curfew at home, even though nobody would at home I don''t dare to break any rules. It''s the first rule of our family don''t break rules. Another rule including my curfew and restriction on mobile and internet use.


    Since my mother and father hate my guts, they restricted my use of money I was given a total of 25 bucks a month for food and other things since neither my mother nor father cook. I took a detour to a local shop to buy bread and went to catch the bus.


    While I was on the bus, I was an elderly woman in front of me. Instinctively I offered my seat to her. I spent the rest of the journey standing been worried about what to do after I got eighteen since my parents are essentially abandoning me. While deep in thought, I heard a screech of tyres and my world turned upside down. My head was bashed on the floor of the bus and my vision turned black.

 A New Life

    Something bright caught my attention in the darkness, I see light dots dancing around in my field of vision. ¡°I''m dead¡± this is the first thought came into my mind. My parents should be happy, right?


    Wait a minute¡­


    I can feel, something soft under me as if I am in a bed, and I''m breathing too! Didn''t I died?!


    Feeling more and more confused by every single minute, I move my hand and realised that I''m actually lying on the grass. When I open my eyes I saw the canopy of a forest.


    [Where am I?]


    I thought out loud.


    [Ouch]


    It seems I am injury, why though? There were bruise marks all over my body and my nose seems to be broken. It seems as if I¡¯ve mugged.


    [sigh]


    Sighing to myself I got to my feet, it is then I realise that I am at least a foot shorter, my limbs are smaller and more fragile than they were before.


    Did my body just got shrunk?!?


    Thinking something stupid, I start to wander off, suddenly with light headache memories start to flood in.


    A boy named Ren who lives in an orphanage nearby and that boy is currently me, but why did that happen? How does it happen? Those questions flood my brain, couple that with my injuries and headache and I nearly fainted.


    [Ren]


    When I hear a strong male voice, I knew, who he was ¡®the caretaker¡¯. He was the one responsible for all activities of the orphanage, he was a strict character and never let any mistake by anyone to go under the rug.


    [Get your filthy self clean and come to the common room today is adoption day.]


    The adoption day is when the orphanage is open to any adult to come and adopt any child they want. The Orphanage doesn¡¯t authorise is the person identification which leads to children sometimes adopted by shady personnel and used as a slave or got sold for money.


    I followed ¡®the caretaker¡¯ that to the orphanage building, it was an old style mansion with three floors and a backyard.


    There are three bathhouses in the building, I went to the one on the ground floor since it was the nearest one but it was locked, maybe someone is already in there, thinking that I started to go toward the set of flights which let to the second floor.


    Stolen novel; please report.[I, it¡¯s free now.]


    A voice as soft as early morning breeze rang out. Turning back I see a girl about fourteen was standing beside the door.


    She has blonde hair in a long braid which reaches to her waist and green eyes which seems to sparkle every now and then. Her name is Sylvia. She came to our orphanage only a month ago. She is a mystery to everybody in the orphanage since she only kept to herself since arriving.


    After five minutes I got myself cleaned up and went to the common hall. It is a huge hall with a very high ceiling. Every child from the house is standing in straight queues, I too joined the last one. Every child is in the range of fourteen to sixteen years of age.


    About five minutes later, a huge crowd of adults come inside and started to walk toward us, a few went past me but don''t show any interest. A woman dressed in all black was talking to Sylvia, who was standing right beside me.


    After an hour later about a third of children got adopted while remaining ones have no choice but wait for another month.


    Expecting nothing different a went to the dormitory and climb inside my bed, even though it is still noon I feel exhausted and want to sleep.


    [Ren get your lazy ass right here. ]


    Caretaker''s booming voice resounded sending slight tremors in the wall of the building as well as chills through my spine. I hurriedly go to his office and saw him at his table but he wasn''t alone, Sylvia and the women in the black dress were also there sitting on the opposite side of his table. She I enter the all of them looked toward me with a different reaction, Sylvia was beaming while the caretaker was a bit bored and woman has a deadpan face, her emotions are unreadable.


    [You are hereby got adopted by miss Agatha here along with our miss Sylvia.]


    The caretaker announced in a serious voice.

 A New Home

    After Ms Agatha completed the necessary documentation, which was only to hand over the money to the caretaker, we head outside and on the front door of the orphanage, a horse cart was there to receive us. The cart looks old but luxurious and is drawn by two horse. The hooded figure was sitting on the driver''s platform. It should be the driver. We climb onto the cart and I took the seat opposite to Ms Agatha and Sylvia who had their back toward the driver.


    [To be clear, I only adopted you because of Sylvia.]


    I instinctively looked at Sylvia but she was staring outside the side window extending to not hear anything that is being said.


    Regardless I nodded at Ms Agatha¡¯s words knowing she meant what she said. Ms Agatha showed a surprised expression but didn¡¯t say anything.


    After about an hour, the sun is about to set. Both ladies spent the whole journey taking in a housed voice and clearly not wanting me to eavesdrop on them which don''t mind them for. Ms Agatha occasionally murmurs something lifting her right hand in which he wore a ring with a black gemstone.


    We arrived at the remotest part of the city where an old looking house stood which looked quite ordinary, it was two stories high and a front garden and a bit of space were left free for the cart near the fence. I looked back at the cart see the driver was helping Ms Agatha and Sylvia off the cart, for a second I saw a feeble light in all three of them but it disappeared very quickly so I can''t notice the details. I rubbed my eyes and looked back but there was nothing out of the ordinary can be seen there.


    After that, all four of us entered the house, the front door leads to a narrow hallway with doors on either side of it.


    Suddenly a young girl with two pigtails opened a door, that is second on the left-hand side.


    [You''re back! Mommy, they are back!]


    Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.What an angle! The girl is about three years old with brown hair and brown eyes and her cuteness level is off the charts.


    Following the shouts of the girl, another girl walked out of the room, she has the same hair as the little girl.


    She came up to us and hug the little girl and shoot a filthy look at me and viciously said


    [Lily, didn''t mommy told you to stay away from men and dogs!]


    Huh¡­.. Did I do something wrong?? And what''s with that emphasis on men and dogs. Are men and dogs are interrelated in some way.


    [Why did you take a man here?]


    [Emilia, we will talk about it later, tell Elsa and Lara to not attack him, lead him to the attic. ]


    Ms Emilia don''t look very pleased about the task she was given but she still leads me to the staircase which is behind the last door. The first floor has only one door, there are some weird noises coming from it but we didn''t stop there and went to the second floor, it too has only a door.


    [It''s here go inside and stay there.]


    She shoved me in the back and shut the door behind me with a bang. I fell onto the floor due to her shove and before I can turn my head toward her darkness fell in the room. The only source of light is the window at the far end of room which cast eerie light in the room. There is nothing in the room except me. I went toward the window and sat in front of it, it shows the front yard from where the cart with Ms Agatha and Sylvia depart.


    I spent about two hours sitting in the same position which isn''t new for me when cart come back. I hear unlocking of the front and hear voice downstairs, after a while there''s knock on the door, it turned out to be Sylvia


    [Ren, they are calling you downstairs.]


    Sylvia lead me to the ground floor and through the first door on the right-hand side. It was a big room with a round table in the centre where Ms Agatha and another woman was sitting which I guess was the driver due to her clothes, she had red hair and glowing eyes. Sylvia went and sat in front of them and used the chair next to her toward me.


    [So, why did you made me take him in?]


    Ms Agatha asked Sylvia once I took my seat.

 The welcome

    [Um¡­, I th¡­, thought, I mean we can use his power for our cause. ]


    Huh... What power. I looked toward Sylvia, she was visibly nervous but her eyes looked serious. Does she know that know who really I am?


    Sitting around a round table with a cable as the only source of light which is insufficient, the walls on all four sides are out of sight, it feels like to be an interrogation scene from a crime movie.


    [Are you sure that was really his power?]


    [Absolutely]


    Sylvia nodded her head while looking calm, which is a streak contrast from a while ago, on another hand, my hands started to sweat.


    [Hey boy, show me your power?]


    Here comes the dreaded moment, how I¡¯m going to show something when I don¡¯t what to show!!?!


    [I d, don''t know what I¡¯m s, supposed to do.]


    Why the hell I¡¯m stuttering, I looked toward Ms Agatha, she was looking toward me with cold eyes and Ms driver clearly wants me to do nothing but kill myself. The atmosphere inside the room become particularly dense with malice which was directed toward me. It feels like I¡¯m not only letting myself down but Sylvia too.


    [Ahem¡­. I¡¯ll a week to prove yourself if can''t you will be thrown out, okay? ]


    [Yes! ]


    I nodded. It feels like if stay in this room for a minute more I¡¯ll be dead. I stood up, turn toward the exist and passed out.


    By the time I regained my consciousness, I was back in my room, looked around the room no one is in let out a sigh, my body started shaking horribly. That was scary, the atmosphere in that room had hatred for me in its every particle.


    *******************


    [Why did you let him be here.]


    Emilia complains loudly, she materialized in the as if she was there the whole time. The room which was poorly lit suddenly dazzled with light as the touches on the wall lit.


    On the round table sat three people, they are of course Agatha, Sylvia and Light, Agatha and Light had their back toward a big sofa on which sat two more people they were Emilia and Lara.


    Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site.[Only to use his powers.]


    Agatha said


    [And what exactly are those?]


    Emilia shot back


    [Stop your banter, Emilia you should respect our leader''s decision.]


    A new figure entered the room, she was Elsa.


    [I''ve dumped him in the attic, now care to explain about that power.]


    Elsa said with a bit of irritation in her voice.


    [Well, when he looks at you, he can create a weird feeling, especially in the abdomen region.]


    [Well, what kind of feeling?]


    Asked Light making a weird face. Seeing that everyone become a bit uncomfortable Sylvia scolded herself under her breathe. She tried to elaborate her point once again.


    [Ahem, well there is a pleasantly warm feeling in the stomach and there¡¯s also tugging as well. ]


    After Sylvia¡¯s answer an even more awkward silence followed, Sylvia too noticed that and lowered her head blushing with shame.


    [How did you find out about that power?]


    Emilia asked


    [Today, when some elders were trying to bully me in the backyard of the orphanage, Ren was there too, on the top of a tree, he looked at me and when our eyes meet, I felt that weird sensation and ran for it. When I looked back the elders were no longer after me, so I thought it¡¯s something to do with Ren.]


    Sylvia finished slightly out of breathe.


    [But this isn''t convincing at all.]


    Emilia said


    [I too, sensed some abnormal energy.]


    Agatha added.


    [Well, we''ll see in that in the coming week.]


    Elsa suggested, all the ladies present nodded in agreement.


    [But if it¡¯s not related to him then we¡¯ve to kill him for good.]


    Elsa added glaring toward Sylvia.


    [Well, now that¡¯s out of the way, let''s proceed to the celebration for Sylvia becoming a member of our sisterhood.]


    Agatha said nodding in the direction of Emilia.


    Lara and Emilia went out of the room when they come back Emilia had Lily in her arms and Lara was pushing a cart that had a cake on it. Sylvia got congratulations of all of them including Lily, they had a BBQ for dinner in the front yard.


    After that Sylvia went to her room while other went towards theirs. Sylvia was too excited to sleep, it was really one of the best days of her life. She finally had regained what she had lost: a family.

 Misfortunes

    I woke up at the dawn of next day. Nothing about the room has changed since yesterday, rather it looked much more empty in the dawn light. I stood and walked toward the only window in the entire room, looks like others had a campfire at night, there¡¯s a black patch in the fort yard which was not present ¡®til yesterday. It feels like I¡¯m going to be abandoned again since I doubt I had any power let alone prove it. There is a knock on the door while I was self-pitying.


    ¡®Knock''


    [Come in.]


    It is Ms Agatha, she was in her usual attire and she had her black hair in a ponytail, she has a beautiful face and black eyes. It is my first time seeing her face, and I find myself unable to look away.


    [Would you refrain from staring at me?!?]


    [Oh!, I¡¯m sorry.]


    After her objection, I didn''t dare to look at her again, maybe she got mad and I can''t blame her for that.


    [Get to the ground floor for breakfast.]


    I nodded at her, making her know that I got the message and followed her to the ground floor, there in a room laid my breakfast on a table which was two slices of toast.


    ¡®Growl''


    Suddenly a loud growling sound came from my stomach. I finally realised how much hungry I actually am, since I¡¯ve not eaten since yesterday, in my previous life I adapt to being hungry since on one was there to tell me otherwise.


    Toasts were slightly burned but they taste alright, while I was eating six people come in the room as well. One of them was the driver, Sylvia, Emilia and her daughter Lily were there too so as two people I don''t know.


    [Since we are all here, why don¡¯t was introduce ourselves.]


    Sylvia suggested with a cheerful voice.


    [Fine, I¡¯m Agatha, I guess you already know that.]


    [I''m Light.]


    [I''m Emilia and she''s my daughter Lily]


    [I''m Lara.]


    [Elsa]


    Everyone Give their introduction, Agatha looked the eldest among them, followed by Light and Emilia, Light has blue eyes and the same coloured shoulder light hair. Next, come, Lara, and Elsa, Lara has white hair and silver eyes which looks kind of scary and Elsa has blonde have and golden eyes which goes along perfectly with her brown skin.


    [You don''t need to introduce yourself as we know all about you.]


    Said Agatha whose words are most likely directed toward Sylvia. Now that I think about it all of there¡¯s introductions were to her rather than me, I¡¯m treated as furniture by them which isn¡¯t entirely new for me. Maybe due to this little Lily come trotting my way and said with a playfully adorable face.


    [Don''t be sad, I¡¯ll talk to you. My name is Lily and you are.]


    So cute!


    [I¡¯m.., R¡­]


    I was about to her when someone stomps on my feet and that someone was none other than Emilia.


    [Who told you to talk to Lily listen, boy, I hate you so you better not give me any reason to kill you, understood]


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    After that, l, Sylvia, Agatha and Light went to the fron the yard where Ms Agatha announced that we will be going to have self-defence classes starting from today, first weaponry from Light, then hand to hand combat from Elsa. I had to learn how to read and write as well since apparently, Sylvia was already literate I¡¯m going to be only one who can''t read nor write.


    ************


    In the following five days nothing change from the usual, I kept myself mostly to my room the only time I had a company was during the classes or when Lily visits me but she usually comes to bully. I realize that little angles can also turn into little devils sometimes the hard way.


    I went to the ground floor for my class, we have that in the front yard, and my only classmate is lily a three-year girl, which is slightly depressing but my main source is our teacher Emilia. Today we are going to study literature. The language we are using in this world is called sodomism, which is not any different from English apart from the alphabet are different, so while I can speak it I neither can write nor read it.


    In the past five days, I learned that this world is seemingly normal, the main occupation of people of four kingdoms is agriculture while the industries are just started to come up in the main cities of the kingdom of Atlanta. The whole kingdom has seven holy cities namely Electra, Maia, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope and we are currently at the outskirts of the capital city of Sodom. Apart from the king, the pope held the most power in all the kingdoms in this world.


    There are also many myths about the existence of gods, the church believes that mankind is blessed with their grace, while other half-human races such as elves, dwarfs and vampires are fallen. Then there are witches who are said to be the devil¡¯s reincarnation or normal women captured by them but in either case, they are killed on sight in the name of God.


    After the class, Lily asked me to play with her and by playing all I have to do is stand still and let her hit me with a ball made up of a piece of wood, well it was Emilia who invented that after all.


    ¡°Ouch!¡±


    It really hurts when hit by that on the shin or forehead even when your opponent is Lily and she knows that.


    After an hour of beat down Lily finally stopped but only because she lost the ball and went to search for it in the woods. This might be my chance to escape neither Emilia nor Lilly are here, in fact, no one seems to be at the house at the moment which is strange, well whatever I¡¯m going to my room.


    [Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!]


    As I was walking away from front yard a scream resounded in the air which sends a shiver down to my spine, I ran toward the source of the sound without any care in the world about it being a trap or anything, after five minutes I reached a cliff but the source of that scream is still unknown.


    ¡°What in the hell happened to Lily¡±