Chapter 4 Miserable

One cold day in spring, Madame Helene was very sick. She got the flu so she wasn't present in the castle that day. When I asked my stepmother to give me some bread, I was very hungry.

"Did you do your job first, did you clean the chamber?" she shouted at me.

"I will clean it Madame." A maid said when she heard her.

"Who ordered you to do so? I'm talking to this little trash." she replied and she was very angry. I barely could understand what was happening in my mum's castle. Who is this woman to act like that?

"Go to your chamber and eat this." She yelled at me, and she threw the dough instead of the bread on my face.

It was my first time eating dough because I was very hungry. I was crying in my chamber and I felt very hungry that night. I waited for my father to return to tell him. After all, he will not let this woman do such a thing to me, but the surprise was awful because my father didn't react and he saw it as very normal. I heard him from my chamber, laughing with Laura and Linda. That voice from the kitchen was like a beat to my soul.

I was broken, and I felt lost and alone. Even my father didn't help me and he wasn't by my side. All my life was about to fall into a big hole of darkness, and the guardians of this hole were Linda and Laura who hated me for no reason. Instead of looking at me like their sister they didn't like me at all, furthermore they were always making problems and breaking things and saying that was me. I waited and waited for my father with belly pain all that night.

"Over hell, over stars, the moon will rise and darkness will downgrade" a soft voice passed in my ear and I closed my eyes. "Is that you mum?" I asked, but no one responded. Maybe it was a dream.

"Wake up honey. It's already morning." Madame Helene said.

"Madame Helene!" I shouted and started crying.

"Oh my dear! I know." Madame Helene said.

"I haven't eaten anything since yesterday." I said that, and I was feeling quite weak. In the same manner as before, Madame Helene prepares my breakfast and gives it to me in my room. When I looked into her eyes, I was filled with peace and happiness. Madame Helene took over for my mother in that position. She was really kind to me, and she was accompanied by Olivier, the only daughter of Madame Helene and Mr. Philip, whom she introduced to me. She was my one and only friend, as well as my best friend. She was quite amusing, and she assisted me in getting through a number of anxiety and depression crises.

Madame Helene went to Madame Cora and my father and informed them of what had transpired the day before. She was quite lovely, and all she said was that it wasn't right for them to treat me that way; Madame Cora was the witch within the castle. After my father left the home, she continued to scream.

"Who told you that?" Cora asked loudly.

"Madam, it doesn't matter who told me. I'm just asking to treat the little girl well." Madame Helene kindly said.

Madame Helene was quite angry, and she demanded to speak with all of the housemaids. She was aware that one of the maids had instructed Madame Helene to assist me, so she informed them that they were no longer permitted to assist me or speak about me in this home.

Madame Cora became quite enraged when she learned that the maids within the castle were assisting me and feeding me while she had not even considered providing me with food.

One cold night when I was with Olivier in my chamber playing together, she told me that her mother said that Madame Cora is trying to make me a maid in my house, and I have to be strong. At first moment I have been scared because I already have seen what she could do, suddenly the door have been opened and Linda screamed" mum!", me and Olivier were so scared, it was night and we didn't understand what happened. Madame Cora and my dad with Laura came quickly to my chamber, also Madame Helene who heard the screaming of Linda.

"What is happening here? Why are you screaming Linda?" she asked.

"I heard her saying bad things about you." Linda said.

"No she didn't! No one did." Olivier replied.

"Take your daughter from here Madame Helene." Madame Cora said.

I was in shock, I couldn't even speak, I was just gazing into my dad's eyes, I waited for him to help me but he was just looking when suddenly Madame Cora began hitting me in front of everyone. Olivier was sobbing while Linda and Laura were beaming at me. My dad didn't relocate but Madame Helen protected me from my stepmother. It was hard to relax her but she did. That night was my first and not the last nightmare.

Madame Helene was waiting until Madame Cora fell asleep so she talked with my father. He was in the big living room. She tried to convince him that my stepmother is a liar and I was watching her talking with him from my room. I just opened my door a little.

"As I told you, anything may happen. A liar's origin is evil. A liar's professed objective is self-protection. Although there are numerous sorts of pain, a liar's purpose is to inflict or relieve anguish on the receiver of the untruth. People like reading and writing about liars but loathe having physical contact with them. Liars make excellent villains, but not lovers, family, friends, or acquaintances. In truth, respectable people seek to avoid them as much as possible. There is no trust and, as a consequence, no stability in a relationship with a liar." Madame Helene rightly informed my father and dread in her voice. My father was bewitched . I hated him so much, and I will never forgive him for what happened to me because of his wife.