Erin slept soundly on the hotel's wide and soft bed when she had a dream about her past ten years ago with a connection to her current life.
"Why don't you have the same appearance as your mother? She has a Russian appearance, but you don't "Her curly-haired classmate echoed her sentiments.
"Of course she's my mother; I'm her only child."
"No," the other girl says, "my mother told me that you're adopted, which is why your parents appear different from you."
"Please retract what you said! That is not the truth. " She was adamant.
She was crying when she returned home to their house, and when she sought for her parents, they were not there, and only the maids were able to help her. She hurried to her room, still crying, and even the maids in the house were unable to calm her down. While laying on the floor, she rolled her knee and held herself, registering in her mind what her classmates said: maybe she isn't her mother and papa's child and they don't love her. She was thinking that when she's looking at their family picture on the wall.
However, she was clinging to her knees, sobbing, and her gaze was fixed on the wall as she grimaced and stared blankly at them.
While her parents were battling at the bottom of the stairs, she stopped sobbing. She glanced up the stairs while her parents were fighting for some unknown reason.
"Why do you persist to see her? Do you want to tell me anything you can't tell me in front of my face? , because you've been over heels in love with her up till now!" She heard her mother yell and was intrigued as to what her parents were arguing about. She continued to listen while biting her nails and was nearly exhausted since she was both afraid and perplexed.
"Nothing happened between me and Lucille... why are you thinking so negatively... she just wants to see her Erin. That's all she said the last time we met."
Her father explained to her mother in a low and calm voice, and she sneezed unintentionally while covering her mouth, at the same time her parents looked at the top of the stairs, and the nervousness of seeing her listening to their conversation was registered on her mother's face.
"What are you doing up there, Erin?" Her father was exasperated.
Erin was afraid of her father's face because, at the age of nine, it was possible that her father would preach to her again, so she ran back to her room, and the name Lucille who wanted to meet her lingered in her mind. She is perplexed, and she heard footsteps approaching her room, and she recognized her parents.
"Baby... open the door, you know we love you, don't you? We are not angry, and we will not harm you "In a gentle voice, her mother said.
She softly opened the door and saw her mother crying, and her mother hugged her the next second.
"Just promise me one thing, baby: you won't just go out with someone you've never met or a stranger." her mother said and his father just calmly looking at her.
She sobbed softly and hugged her mother tightly. "Mom, why do I look different from you and Daddy? Am I your child?" she asked her mother. She turned to face her father with a sad expression on her face as her mother let go of her hold slightly.
"Why did you say that Erin, that's, not true baby, you are my daughter..." her mother said, frowning and glaring angrily at his father.
"Baby...don't believe everything they say…" His father said and warmly smiled at her.
"But next time, you need to tell them and stand for yourself, believe yourself, that you are our daughter." her father added his sentence and touch her face. She still remembers what her parents were arguing about, so in her curiosity, she dared to ask her parents the most difficult question.
"Who is Lucille? Why she wants to see me?"
Erin's mother and father were excessively swallowing when they heard her ask that question, and Erin raised her eyebrows while waiting for her parents' clarification. Her parents are clearly struggling to answer her questions, but she needs to know who Lucille is and why this woman wants to see her. Her mother took a deep breath and shook her head as her father began to explain everything to her.
"Albert...don't." her mother mumbled.
"She needs to know the truth. We need to tell her the truth...please I'm begging you." her father said whispered to her mother's ear.
"No...are you out of your mind, she's my daughter!" her mother raises her voice.
Her mother carried her down the stairs and out of the mansion as quickly as she could. She had no idea what was going on as long as she followed her mother wherever she went. Her father summoned them and chased them out of the mansion so her father could pursue them, but they had already fled, and her mother was mad and furious when it came to driving the car.
"Mom, what's going on? Where are we going?" she asked confused while biting her nails, trembling.
"Anywhere safe." her mother replied.
"Mom what is going on?" she cried out and waiting for an answer.
"Just try me, baby...I can't let that woman be your mother. Remember this that I am only your mother and nothing else, don't listen to them and don't believe everything you heard." her mother said while driving the car. She just nodded and suddenly in one glance everything turns dull and dark...she can't see anything and her eyes became black and white and she shouted in terrifying sound "Mom!!!!!!" she breathes… " Mom?..." then everything goes black.
'"My daughter! Rescue my daughter!" she heard her mother crying but she can't move her body and she can't see anything. She feels like they are being hit and she suddenly lost consciousness.