"Come to me my sweet, beautiful baby boy" My mother calls sweetly to me from the bench she was sitting on not far from me.

"Ma-Ma" I giggle running over to her across the fresh grass of our favorite park.

She picked me up and placed me on her lap facing her. I look up at her. Her face is a haze, but her smile is as clear as day. I giggle lifting my arms up so my hands can try to touch her face. She lowers her face so my hands can reach her. Her face is so soft. Her black raven hair falls out of her bun and against the back of my hands. 

Let me put my hair back up quickly, my little comet, whispers, holding me close to her and placing her forehead on mine. 

"Ma-ma woosh reawwy preththy withh hair down" I say smiling 

"Awww well in that case I guess I just have to leave it down" She laughs softly 

"Yesh yesh I happy" I giggle bouncing up and down her lap 

We both start laughing with each other. I just want to hold on t-

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ 

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ 

I open my eyes to see my off-white "room" celling. 

BUZZ BUZZ B- 

I move my head to the right and see my phone alarm going off. I reach my hand over to grab my phone to turn off the alarm. That stupid memory keeps haunting my dreams. Even in my sleep I can't get a moment of peace. With a sigh, I sit up removing my blanket to get off my "bed" which is really just an old mattress on the ground. I need to be quick I have wasted too much time already getting lost in my head about the dream. 

I can't afford for Hank, my so-called father or as Aria calls him the Joker to wake up before Aria and I have a chance to leave the house for school. I drop my phone on the bed and walk to my door and open it. I peek my head out the door and listen to see if he is awake. It seems like the coast is clear. I creep down the hall very carefully making sure not to step on any of the floorboards that make too much noise. When I get to Aria's room, I open the door very slowly making sure not the make too much noise. I step in and close it behind me. I turn around to see her facing me looking so peaceful. I wonder if I ever look like that anymore. I walk over to her and bend down. I move the hair from in her face away. 

"Heyy there lovemelody time to wake up" I whisper shaking her lightly. 

"MmMMmmmMMmm noOooOOooooooO" she groaned 

"We don't want to run behind time so hurry and get ready. I'll be waiting downstairs with something to eat" I say with a smile walking to her door. 

"FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD" She whisper-yells snapping awake. I can hear her little feet hit the ground as I walk over to open the door to walk out. 

I look over my shoulder to see her shuffling around her room fixing it up and getting ready for school. I smile and close the door behind me. I make sure to be quietly and quickly go back to my room and start getting ready for school. When I am done, I check my phone to see the time. 

6:44 am 

We are making some pretty good timing today. Hank will still be fast asleep when we have to leave. I put my phone in my hoodie pocket careful to be gentle with my right arm. I grab my backpack and head downstairs. I might actually get to leave without having to worry about blood dripping everywhere or it soaked into my shirt and having to hide it, so no one sees. Luckily for me Hank went on a business trip for the weekend and just got back last night so I was able to avoid the daily beating this weekend and heal from the one he gave me before leaving.  Usually that just means he will make up for it tonight. I am exhausted from working overtime this weekend though. As I get downstairs and move to my hidden stash of food and pull out two pop tarts. I pop them into the toaster, leaning back onto the counter to wait and listen upstairs to make sure she isn't being loud and to make sure he is still asleep. I feel my phone vibrate from inside my hoodie pocket, so I take it out and check. 

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1 New Message from Lucifer (Liam) 

I open my phone go to our DM. 

Lucifer 

Hey! I am waking to school today. Mind if I walk with you? 

I don't get why he even asks anymore. We walk to school every day. I send a quick reply anyway. 

Chloe 

 Only if you stop changing my name to CHLOE!

Lucifer 

Sorry Chloe darling not possible ~ 

Ding! I look up from my phone and seen that the toaster went off. Oh no...I didn't stop it before it made the noise. It was too loud. I drop my phone on the counter and scrabble to get the pop-tarts out of the toaster unplug the toaster and put it back to normal, so it doesn't look like it was used. I hear a door from upstairs open. I feel the fear run through my veins as I clean up the last of the mess and hide the pop tarts. I hear footsteps come down the stairs and suddenly I feel my insides panic. He's coming. He'll kill me. My heart was beating too fast to realize the person coming down the stairs was right in front of me. I jump back and look up to only see my little sister Aria. She is staring at me with a look worry written all over her face. 

"Are you alright?" She asks reaching out to try to touch my arm. 

I flinch away and turn around to grab the pop tarts that I hid away. I take a deep breath and turn back around. Schooling my face so I don't show any of the emotion from before. I give her a small smile as I hand her one of the pop tarts. 

"Ready for school?" I ask before closing my eyes, and taking a bite out of my Poptart. I didn't realize I grabbed my favorite flavor. It's really good. I could never get tired of this flavor. I was so focused I didn't realize she answered until she tapped my arm. I open my eyes and swallow looking at her. 

"Sorry one more time?" I speak 

"I said yes but we need to hurry, or we will be late," she says with her hand on her hip, looking just like mom that it hurts. 

"Yeah, let's go," I say grabbing my phone carefully with my right arm and putting it into my pocket. 

I didn't realize until now, but my arm is throbbing probably from the fast movement trying to clean up. I'll live. I open the door for her and wait until she walks through before I close it behind us. I hear Aria start running off, so I spin around and notice Liam at our front gate on his phone probably waiting for me. He turns probably hearing Aria coming at him and crotches and opens his arms wide for a hug. Sometimes I swear she likes him more than me. I sigh walking over to them. 

"You never listen," I said looking down at him 

"I'll start listening when you do" he says with a smirk, breaking the hug getting up. 

He sneaks a bite of my Poptart. I just shake my head at him. Aria walks between us holding Liam's hand since mine are on my Poptart. Her elementary school is only a few blocks away, so it was a short walk. We both finish our Poptart before we get to her school. We managed to get her to school right on time. When she walks in, Liam and I continue walking to our high school. We are totally going to be late thanks to me. I always feel so bad when this happens. I wish he wouldn't sacrifice his attendance like this. I don't have a chose, but he does, and I don't understand how he can even care about someone like me. I'm a nobody. The only thing I am useful for is taking care of Aria and I'm sure someone else could do a better job than me. He is probably only here for Aria. Liam probably noticed I was trapped in my head since he slung his arm around my shoulder and gave me "the look". 

"I know what you're doing Cal," he says still giving me the look. 

"You just shouldn't do this," I say looking down 

"We are friends Cal. This is what we do". He says with a smile. "Besides we both know I won't be losing any sleep missing Ms. Buttworks class." 

I laugh at that. He really loves making fun of her last name. I would feel bad if she wasn't so awful. We walk up into the school building. The hallways are empty. I pull out my phone and notice it's 8:35 am which means we are super late. No point rushing now. I look over to Liam. 

"I'm gonna head to the bathroom. Meet you in class" I say moving in the direction of the bathroom. 

"I'll come with you" he says heading in my direction. 

"One of us needs to at least get the basic idea of what we need to do for homework. So, you head to class, and I'll be there soon" I say with a smirk. 

He gives me a frown knowing I just throw him to the wolves. She is going to eat him alive for being late. At least we only have 15 mins until class ends so I will make sure to take my time. 

I stroll to the bathroom making sure to go extra slow. When I get there, I use and go to wash my hands. My arm is killing me. Deep breaths. I didn't realize someone entered... until I did. 

"Look who it is Cunt Slut" someone whispered in my ear 

My blood chilled. I know that voice from anywhere. Jack Darf aka The King of Crescent Moon High.