Shadow of a Child
"It's Not a School, It's a House of Torture"
Jason ran to his room and saw his adopted son missing, his doll and his pet falling on the floor, Sky immediately got up and came out to chase him, he barked in front of the window, seeing the black figure carrying Marina forcibly into the black Car and speeding away leaving the office, He tried to calm her down, but his eyes were fixed on the Car, so that the look on his face turned red, He squeezed the rifle and tried to shoot it, but behind him stood the figure of a woman dressed in white, looking at her who was angry, he looked at her and his eyes widened to see her emerge from behind him.
Away from the city, the black car approached the large house in dark purple, black roofed, the courtyard was full of dark red flowers, there was a wooden board that read "Belldock School of Personality for women", Marina fell silent at the building, "Where are you taking me?" He asked in a stern tone, the driver just kept quiet and didn't open his mouth, said the question, and then he asked again, "Where are you taking me to personality school?" He ignored her, so He asked her a third time, "Hey, why don't you answer my question, Where do you want to take me and why did you bring me here?" He asked presumptuously, He turned to look at ya while holding a gun.
"SILENT
OR I'LL KILL YOU!"
The driver put his car in front of a large door, greeted by a large woman, in a dark purple dress, and in a purple hat with emerald fur that adorned him, even though his face had shown a wrinkled line, and his face was very thin, but her attitude was already like that of a noble lady in general, the driver opened the Car door and pulled Marina's collar forcefully, fiercely facing her to the Old lady, "let go of me!"She cried out, but she was held back by him, the woman looked at ya with a sharp and cynical look, "who is this girl?" Asked, Marina showed her head, She felt disgusted to see it.
" He is the son of Catherine Lawson and Albus Herlock, as you requested, Miss"
"Interesting, poor boy, number your head"
Marina ignored his orders and lowered her gaze, "i said, raise your head!!"
The woman flushed her face and lifted her forcibly the child's head, staring yes in an exploding direction, yet she kept looking at him blankly, with her black fan holding her chin up to keep it lifted, she said, an evil smile stared ya, "Marina Herlock, the lower-class child adopted by the middle-class man, this child from the beginning had already shown disrespect to the noble lady, the lower-class child is indeed a stupid child!" Follow her and ask the man to drag her in.
The large hallway showed paintings of the women dressed in bright clothes, their hair bound and having sparkling jewels all over her sitting gracefully behind the colored curtains, the girl walked without looking right and left, and then they stopped in front of the dark blue door, with a golden handle, "this is your room, from now on you are a student for my school, although you will still rebel, we will give you a lot of punishment, and for this moment you are punished, which is not to go out of the dorm at home!" Hearing that, Marina was silent, at first she rebelled immediately speechless to hear the punishment she was handed down without giving a clear reason.
" this witch woman is crazy, it makes no sense that she would punish me if I didn't make a mistake, dad just gave me the punishment when I got out of the house without any permission from him and Mr. Milo let alone Miss Emily. You crazy woman..."
Marina was thrown into her room, so she fell paralyzed and they locked her in, she stood up and tried to break her down, but He had such a small body that He began to weaken as He pushed open his door forcibly, and his tears came out profusely, He cried loudly like a baby in his mother's dwelling, and hitting the door was hoping someone would hear it, but only she could hear it, they didn't a uh with her cries.
Later that night, He held his stomach that kept ringing, asking to be filled with food, because of hunger, He just bit the leaves that fell into his room, to prop his stomach, to fill his stomach, his eyes glazed over to see the full moon shining brightly among the twinkling stars.
“Dad, where are you,
I'm so hungry…..,
please Me...”
His longing for his adoptive father overflows from his brlinang tears, hoping for freedom and going home to meet his loved ones,
The next day, he woke up from his sleep on the wooden floor close to the door of his room, his eyes were swollen because he was crying in one night, his hair was ruffled and his face was pale, before long the door opened a little and a loaf of bread came out from behind the door, Marina took it and ate it voraciously, She put it in her mouth at once, until it was hungry, before long an old woman came into her room, Marina retreated to the wall, she pulled her clothes by force, shouting in rebellion, trying to push the woman out of her sight, then he dressed in white and wore a shirt with a wide skirt, a titan with a white collar, not only that, he also tied his hair hard, he also tied his hair, he also brushed his hair so tightly that He cried out in pain, even though He continued to feel the pain he was making, yet the woman considered it a song from a little boy on his birthday.
“your shout is very beautiful, I pull your hair again so you can let out your voice louder...”.
After she dressed him neatly, she forced him to come out of his room on the grounds that the lesson had begun, he was forced to obey her orders and follow her, until when He stood at the door, He entered it with a flat face, walked lethargic and bent because He was still hungry, Marina walked and sat on the front bench, suddenly someone slammed a thick book in front of him, “ get away from my place, I will leave, village boy” a teenage girl standing in front of him with cynical eyes and a fake smile, “sorry, but I've been here from the beginning” he said subtly, suddenly, he said, the girl slammed him hard, “but this is my chair, everyone knows that this is my chair!” he shouted loudly, Marina got up and moved to the back bench, she sat down without looking at them.
The bell rang, the students sat compactly as the teacher entered their classroom, as they sat, except Marina herself, among those sitting upright, she herself bowed, not looking at the teacher, until he came to him and hit his desk with a stick hard, “Nak, stand up!”, but He did not rub it, then he hit it, still He did not rub it, still He did not rub it, until he was furious and he reached for an ear, Marina cried out in pain.
“Sick!!”
“This is the result you are recalcitrant,
a noble lady always stands tall, you were not fed by your family,?”
“At least you have to feed me, wicked woman, from earlier I only ate a piece of bread, while they ate good food in the dining room as I walked to this class.”.
“Poor children should feel more pain than middle-class children let alone nobles, even though they were raised as children by them, but social status cannot be replaced, he said,
anyway, like this how the world works, playing according to his role, the above entitled to treat the bottom according to their hearts” he told the girl.
When the bell rang again, the students came out, they showed no feeling from their faces, their legs were attached to shoes with a small height so that they looked taller, walking hand in hand towards the dining room, Marina followed them, she tried to walk in pantofel shoes, the size was bigger so every step she took, She almost fell out of line, even so, no one helped her, she said, they were indifferent to him while staring cynically at him.
“Only shoes only you keep falling”
Such was the ravings of the children in the school of personality, until He tried to endure his suffering while looking for a way to escape from the school for the woman.
………
He spent his time at the school that his father never sent to study, the suffering of all the teachers and students at the school, until one day, he found a way to escape, he said, but it was known by the school so that he was dragged into the principal's room.
There, an old woman sat on a soft bench, behind the curtain was a glass window that radiated the sun, Marina sat on a shiny wooden floor, with foliage strewn over it, “Marina Herlock, she said, you try to escape from your prison, just because of the suffering you are experiencing in this place,” He looked at the headmaster with a blank look, his breath was wheezing because he was tired after he tried to escape.
“Indeed, dirty women, this place is indeed a prison, you only treat them like royalty, while you treat me like a dog, not like a human being, what did you teach them at a mental institution?!”
“Only evil and turning them into black-hearted women, that's all you think in your head!”
The woman laughed as she turned to the window, with a glass of tea in her left hand, she saw the view of the cliff, “power, loyalty to the king and queen became one of the pillars in our education system,”
He fell silent, unable to absorb the words of the woman, before long his eyes widened to see the signboard attached to his desk.
“Torture being a beautiful game in this school, we teach these lessons to them to be strong and to fight those who are weak and hurt their lives”
Hearing these words, he asked his servant to take him to his room, He obeyed him and took the girl out of his room, drinking his tea, He sat back on his stool.
“Jason...”.
“Why do you still love that low-class girl, even if you're different from her…
but you are still friends with him, until at his wedding, you are still worried about his existence”
“Why don't you love a noble girl, my son Ruby Belldock, but she's prettier and prettier than that sailor girl”
He drank his tea and opened the thick, gray book again, he opened it and there was a monochrome photo of a boy playing with his wooden horse, swinging with a smile on his face.
15 Years ago….
In the city, two children were playing cheerfully, they were playing in an outdoor room with red walls, wooden dolls lying on the floor, a blonde girl in light green clothes plays a knight-shaped wooden doll in her protective suit while holding a sword, “go, black troops, I am the knight Sir Leo is ready to protect the kingdom from you, sir, captain black steel” He moves his doll, in front of him a black-haired man moves a black colored doll with small horns, He uses it to chase the girl, “AAAHHHH Jason, Come, lord of knights, He uses it to chase after the girl, AAAHHHHHH Jason, Come on, lord of knights, beat them!!” He ran after him, Jason ran away from him with a carefree smile, until they fell on the white mattress because of fatigue, although they were tired, but their happiness still embraced them.
“Cath, do you want some grape juice?
my mom made it for us!”
Catherine nodded, and they ran to the kitchen, where a woman poured dark purple water into a glass, and they peeked at her from behind a wall, they gulped when they saw the coloured liquid plunge into their glass, suddenly he knew their whereabouts when he looked at the door, he smiled at them, “Jason, this is grape juice, let's have a drink together, and Catherine, you want to taste it?” subtly bargaining, hearing that, He nodded as a sign that He was eager to try it.
They go to the dining room, and enjoy the juice made by his mother Jason together, Catherine who first tried to drink it a mouthful, when it has been swallowed, he began to spend it, he began to spend it, his eyes sparkled and his smile emerged from his face after drinking that fresh drink, “You like it, son??” he asked, He nodded loudly and turned his glass over as a sign that he was enjoying his juice, seeing that Jason laughed cheerfully.
“Catherine does love it, just look She asks for more juice when She doesn't really like wine!”
“It's delicious, I want to tell this to my mother, she might be able to make it on my father's birthday!!”
They were happy to hear his excitement, the atmosphere of the house became crowded with his presence in the family, Jason began to feel the things he had just felt when he was beside him.
“Catherine is a child of sailors, but He has a good stature, somehow if I was with him feels different if close to other children at school???”
