Chapter 2

Pearl tried to snatch the knife from her dad but failed in doing so, so she ran down her apartment while banging on every door she could see but failed in getting any kind of reply from them. At last when she reached the ground floor of the building she saw two huge, strong and bulky mens standing outside and having a chat. She quickly ran towards them and BEGGED them to help her but all she got for her begging was them running back into their house and shutting the door on her face. She ran outside and shouted like a mad person for someone to help her and some people called the cops but no one dared to go in. After a couple of minutes she saw her mom running towards her covered in blood, some parts of her flesh dangling. A stranger helped Pearl's mom get to the hospital and 11years old Pearl and her brother who was 3 years younger than her, were the only acquaintance of their mother.

Pearl's brother had a big ass scar on his palm that he got while helping their mom escape and Pearl was a mess. Her mom luckily survived but Pearl had to stay with her aunt(her mom's elder sister) whose children she didn't find nice at all. They would degrade her saying that it wasn't her house. While giving the alibi for her father's crimes her brother did most of the talking while Pearl just kept on smiling or giggling for no particular reason. Her mom's sisters found Pearl really strange for laughing during that kind of situation but no body ever thought about how that child's mental health was getting messed up.

None of her mom's sibling treated Pearl nicely they would always make her feel that she was worthless or just a burden that they had no option but to feed and clothe. Her cousins never missed their chance to make her feel like she didn't belong with them which she didn't, because she was not a monster like them....maybe not at that time. Pearl's mom had sent her brother to become a monk while she took her out of school and kept her at home for a few months to babysit her youngest brother who was still a toddler. Her mom had recovered so nicely that she would only come back at home when it was 2 in the morning. Pearl's mom really was a huge fucking mess as she would bring home random guys and sleep with them and one time when her ex had taken their tv, her mom woke her up in the middle of the night and had beaten the shit out of Pearl so much that the next day Pearl could hardly move her jaws and had scratches and bruises all over her body. Her mom never really trusted her and always controlled her life and she was so cruel that she had sent Pearl to her brother's place when Pearl had begged her not to.

Pearl stayed a few weeks at her uncle's but then she went to her grandad's place and started to stay with them. Pearl never felt like she belonged anywhere so to adapt to her new school she had created a whole new persona which was totally different from her's, she started giving money and things to people for free just so she could keep them on her side but that didn't last for long as she fought with her friends to such extent that she was even called by the teachers. Pearl and her friends had an on and off relationship, they would fight like they were never going to patch up again but somehow they would always end up becoming friends again.

One time Pearl and a group of her friends had went near a river but unfortunately two of her friends got washed away by the river right infront of her eyes. Pearl had screamed and cried so much that her throat was really sore. One of the girls was saved but the other one died and the person chosen to give the alibi was Pearl and her friend(the one who got rescued). Things became really blurry and confusing that Pearl couldn't remember anything properly. Pearl did move on with her life and then she reached middle school where she met up with a couple of friends and she and her previous friends had cut off their ties in a really bad way. Pearl became extremely introverted that she never talked with anyone else rather than her new group of friends she had made at her new school. But good things were never meant for Pearl as they left her because they believed some other gossip over her. Pearl felt disheartened because she was the friend that had given all of her to them and always stayed and comforted them at their lowest. Her friends did come back to her and instead of getting mad at them that dumb girl forgave them and started being friends with them again. Pearl sure was a shitty dumb mess. An idiot who didn't know anything but her friends because they were the one who made her feel like she belonged somewhere. She and her mother never talked but sometimes when there was some occasional calls from her mom she would beg her mom to take her back but her mom would just reply with a half hearted okay.