Chapter 4

Life with Pearl's mom did feel a lot less burdensome because now she was able to speak her mind and Pearl's mom had also changed. Pearl always thought that her mom's attitude must have changed because of the injury in her head but she wasn't really quiet sure. She was the black sheep of her family. No body liked her because one time she had dissed them in their family group chat and they already hated her for her attitude so one thing led to another and she became the ignored notification of their phone.

She didn't her like life at school so she would skip it most of the time and her life at home was also nothing quite special but it was bearable until that night. Her mom and step dad had reached at home around 2 in the morning, she was sleeping on the couch and suddenly her step dad woke her up to ask where her phone was. Pearl didn't pay much attention and told him that it must be nearby so he could search it by himself. It was dark because the light in the living room was off and Pearl wanted to say that her phone must be on the table that was near her but before she could say anything her step dad's hand grabbed her boobs. At first she thought it was a mistake but no...he was rubbing and feeling it. Pearl wanted to shout her lungs out and yell out to her mother who was in the bathroom but she couldn't, she laid frozen until he removed his hands and went away.

That night she couldn't sleep and kept on weeping silently and the fact that an unknown person had mistakenly opened the door of her house (which was left open) thinking it was his friend's house didn't help either because her mom came to inspect who it was and instead of waking up her daughter in a decent way she pulled up the mattress which covered her lower body to check if Pearl was having her pants on or not. When her mom was sure that pearl's pants were on she then pulled the mattress off from pearl's head. Pearl kept thinking that if it was her elder sister her mom would have woken up her sister and interrogated her but when it came to Pearl she did this to her. Her mom always did that, she would slut shame Pearl knowingly or unknowingly. Pearl was heartbroken and after what her step dad did to her, he still had the guts to ask her what's wrong and why she was crying?

The next day Pearl slept in her room with the door locked but she had forgotten that the keys to her bedroom door was in the living room so when Pearl woke up the next morning she found out that her bedroom door was wide open. For the next few nights Pearl couldn't sleep until and unless she made sure that her mom and step dad were asleep(which was at 3 in the morning). This left her sleepy the whole day at school but no body seemed to notice.

No one seemed to care that one of their classmates was drowning in the sea of depression, anxiety and insomnia. No one noticed the broken girl and her tears. No one noticed how she was screaming for their attention and definitely no one noticed how even the slightest of their action was driving her to the edge of the cliff. All of them were ignorant people who didn't care one bit about Pearl.