Chapter One: The backstory

(trigger warning)

'Once upon a time, A young boy who lived and grew up in a Noble Family suddenly ran away from his home because he was forbidden to go out, why you ask? That is because the young boy has the ability to create life, not exactly life but more like he can create a human sized realistic porcelain doll that becomes human..he-'

Suddenly a young girl's voice can be heard 'but daddy what do you mean by the dolls becomes human? You mean are they alive like us?' She tilted her head giving her father a curious look.

The father giggled and pats her head 'yes my little princess, the things he can make are living people like us!'

the little girl is still confused as to how he can do that. The father looked at her and smiled 'i can't really tell you how he can do it...but the story here is filled with fantasy, where magic and gifted people like the young boy here exist'

the girl looked at the book and saw the portrait of the young boy, silver hair color, eyes has the shade of a ruby and his skin looks flawless and pale as snow white

'hes quite a handsome young man right?' the father abruptly said as he smiles.

His daughter smiled happily and looked back to his father and replied 'he looks like a prince!',

the father laughed and just agreed on what his daughter has said,

'of course..well then shall I continue the story?' the father said as the daughter nodded her head.

'now where was I, ah yes, he sneaks out at night and ran away from home to play but...all of a sudden bandits saw him walk out of the mansion, he noticed it and panicked decided to run away because he couldn't think straight he ran towards the forest, he ran and ran until he-' Suddenly

A figure suddenly barged in the room, The two was startled and looked who it is, it was the mom of the young girl, Looking hagard, looking drunk and she looked like a mess, The girl looked afraid from her mother as she tried to hide behind her father.

'sorry my little princess but I think I'll tell you the story in another time' his tone sounded Abit serious yet still has the gentleness from his voice as he closes the book, pats her head

'now you should go to sleep okay?' he tucked her in with her blanket and kisses her forehead

she looked disappointed but replied with 'okay good night daddy I love you'

he smiled and replied 'i love you too my little princess'

as soon as the father leaves and closed the door the young girl waited for 5 minutes and sits up, she slowly goes in front of her door and sits down, she can hear voices from the other side, her parents keeps arguing and slightly opened the door, her parents was yelling even more, throwing stuff to the ground or to each other it's been going on for 10 minutes, when suddenly she saw a suitcase, her father grabbed the suitcase and goes by the front door and leaves. With confusion the young girl decided to go out of her room 'mommy where is daddy going?' she asked confusingly

Her mother saw her, she has bruises and scratches 'Lilliane, why are you still awake? Didn't your father told you to sleep?' giving her an annoyed look

'b-but where is he going?, mommy? What-' Suddenly her mother placed her hand on her Lilliane was startled, confused and started to tremble

'honey, your father will not come back, we don't need him, you only need me, you understand?' she desperately told her

Lilliane started to look much more sad than before 'b-but, he said he's going to continue the story later, mommy, why is he leaving?, did I do something wrong?, what's going on' her mother didn't say anymore and hugs her

'Lilliane I know it's hard for you to understand because you're still a child sweetie but things has been hard between your father and I, that's why he decided to leave' her mother squeezed her tightly

Lilliane started to sob 'No! I don't want him to leave! I want Daddy to stay, I wanna stay with Daddy' She said, as her tears and snot keeps on falling through her face

Suddenly her mother yelled out 'Lilliane!, your father isn't coming back! You're staying here with me!, what can't you understand?!' she realizes that she yelled to her daughter, making her cry even more

'i-im sorry, I didn't mean to, lilliane I'm so sorry please, don't cry' comforting her own daughter she also started to cry

Moments has passed lilliane and her mom has calmed down, lilliane slept besides her mom hugging her tightly, sobbing on her sleep 'daddy,..mommy...don't fight anymore..', her mom pats her head comforting her

Days has been passed, lilliane still looks outside the window checking if her father comes back, but alas,..no one is there..only bystander walking the side walks..

'lilliane!, can you come here and clean up your toys here?' her mother yelled out

Lilliane goes where the voice comes from, playfully looks at the ground and picked up some toys, she didn't clean up rather she plays and ran around, she accidentally bumped to the table and the vase fell, shattering to the ground. Her mother heard that and went to see what is going on, there she was furious on what Lilliane did

'Lilliane! What did you do!?, didn't I tell you to clean up?!, what did you do now!?' she frowned and crosses her arms

'Lilianne flinches and was surprised, she looked down the floor 'Im sorry' she said quietly

'and? What are you waiting for Clean up your toys gosh is that hard to ask?' She rolls her eyes and cleaned up the vase 'seriously I asked you to clean up not Play around lilliane'

Lilliane looks her toy and just toss it around, she was annoyed because her mom yelled at her 'i don't want to clean up! Im still playing!'

Her mother started to get impatient 'lilliane I will not ask this again, clean up your toys it's enough playing'

Lilliane being a kid, throws tantrums still doesn't want to clean up and just making a mess even more

Her mother saw this and got pissed, she grabbed lilliane's arm and slap her hand really hard 'Lilliane what do you think you're doing!? Why are you not cleaning up?! You're just making more mess!' she yelled

Lilliane started to weep and cry her hand started to turn red because of her mom's slap when her mom suddenly raised her hand and slapped lilliane's mouth

'stop crying will you?!, crying won't do anything!, just do what I tell you and you won't experience this!'

Lilliane trembles in fear, confused but most definitely she's trying to stop her cries and started to clean up. This isn't the first time that had happened to Lilliane, whenever Lilliane does something 'bad' Her mom punishes her, there are times when her mom's punishment is really harsh she locks her in a bathroom, or even her own room because she was being a bad child.

When her aunt decided to visit them there are occasionally that her aunt let Lilliane meet her dad secretly, she was happy, finally seeing her dad whenever her aunt visits them. She and her aunt frequently meets him in secret while her mom wasn't aware of it.

6 years has been passed Lilliane is now 13 years old, Everytime Lilliane does something wrong she still gets punished, sometimes even if it's not her fault she gets punished, but after the punishment she gets, her mom covers it with sweet words like 'i only do this because I love you' 'im doing this so you won't do it in the future'. This is what she always hears, Lilliane gotten used to it by now old bruises fades but new ones doesn't. Like from her old memory fades new memories stays.

Her mom doesn't stay at home frequently she's always out, leaving Lilliane alone whenever she doesn't have school, she banned her aunt to visit their home because she discovered that they have been meeting with her father, she doesn't know how to cook she doesn't have money. Her mom got her a phone since she's now 13, she tried to call her mom but she's not answering 'mom must be busy' Lilliane mumbled, the only thing she can do now is to drink some water..but..tap water is dirty and the water gallon is now empty so she was starving and thirsty. Lilliane decided to lay down on her room and tries to sleep in and left her phone on her table.

She dreams about the story of what her father had told her when she was younger, about a young boy running away from home. She thought of running away from home but..where can she go?, she doesn't have money to go to her dad, she doesn't know how to get where her aunt is even if her mom was like that to her, she still raised her, gave her shelter, clothes ,food she even gave her a phone to use.

Hours passed and Lilliane woke up, her mom is now back she has some takeaway with her 'Lilliane sorry that I came back late, you shouldve messaged me' her mother removed her shoes and looked around 'im really sorry Lilliane I should've left you some money too, I didn't know we ran out of water' but her tone doesn't seems to be feeling bad about it

Lilliane just smiled 'its okay mommy, I'll just eat and drink whatever you got me' Lilliane looked at the food and there are stuff that she doesn't like Lilliane knew that if she eats now while her mom is awake she will have to forcefully eat the things she doesn't like so she waited.

'well I'm going to sleep, just eat and get to bed once you're done okay?, love you my child' as her mom smiled and goes to her room.

Luckily since her mom is going to bed, she threw out the things she doesn't want to eat and eats peacefully.

This happens occasionally, Lilliane always been left behind, sometimes her mom takes her out but she rarely takes her out.

Lillian is now 15 she's still not allowed to go out and have fun with her friends, because she's scared that her mom doesn't let her go out with her friend if she told her where she's going. Her mom is now much more calmer with her, she doesn't hit her anymore but, she still gets verbal to Lilliane

When she's eating her mom will say

'Lilliane, don't you think you're getting fat?, you should stop eating like a pig,in the near future you'll be fatter than me if you keep eating like that', And when she wants to do something 'Lilliane you don't need that, violin, that's so expensive were to poor to buy it' 'piano?, you don't need training and besides we don't have money' 'you keep making art but can't you just make realistic, make it realistic maybe you'll make a Fortune' , whatever she wants to try something new there's always been a 'reason' for it.

Until one day, When Lilliane and her mom was going out, Lilliane tripped over and didn't see the red light and got hit by a car. The mom didn't even noticed it until a person went to where Lilliane got hit.

The mom looked at her daughter fearing that she will lose her and rushed her to the hospital. Doctors rushed in making the mom wait outside for hours, the doctor discovered that Lilliane suffered a lot from her mother the bruises that she got, burn marks all over her body, scars on her leg, the punishment was severe that the scar remained.

Hours passed and Lilliane is now stable, the father of Lilliane and her aunt decided to visit where Lilliane is

'How can you do that to our daughter you bitch!' The father yelled and slapped her

The people around them were also surprised and security came in making the father calm down

'The doctors just had told me that not only that she has scars on her legs But she has burn marks!? She's also underweight! Your sister even told me that the money that she's supposed to have is not with her but you used it all!?' the father was so angry that he tries to control himself since bystander are recording them

'brother in law! Calm down, stop causing some scene!' the aunt calmly told him as she hold on to his arms

Security was also holding on to the father and asked them to leave if they won't stop causing a scene. The father clicks his tongue 'alright I'll leave' He said it coldly and leaves, the aunt stayed with her sister

'Sister I'm really disappointed In you, how can you do that to her!?, I know that it was my bad that i-' Lilliane's mom suddenly interrupted 'shut up!, just...' She suddenly stayed quiet, trembling in fear of loosing her daughter forever

On the next day at the hospital, the father gave papers to Lilliane's mom 'i should've done this years ago, I thought you changed but you didn't' the father gave her a cold shoulder

The mom looked at it and it's the divorce paper and some other files about her child neglection 'what is this what is the meaning of these!?' the mom furiously grabbed his shirt

'i now own our child's custody, I couldn't do it before because I didn't have money,..but now ..she's now my responsibility' he firmly said to her, she got even more furious and tried to give him the piece of his mind but...people are watching them so she decided to leave

Days turned into weeks

Lilliane finally opened her eyes and saw her father, crying, and confused her father carefully yet gently hugged her 'im so sorry my little princess' he keeps telling her that over and over again, until finally Lilliane started to sob as well making the people around the tear up because her father gotten close with the nurses and talked to them about how things went wrong about the situation. lilliane wanted to ask where her mom is but decided not to because she heard about everything when she was in a coma

Once she was released from the hospital, ever since then she didn't see her mom, Lilliane packed all her stuff at her mom's place but there's no sign of her. Even when she was like that to her, she is still her mom, she couldn't hate her she still loves her mom. Once she finished packing her stuff, she's right in front of the front door and looked back to her home one last time..hesitating whether to actually leave that house forever or not. She slightly opened her mouth wanting to say something, but nothing is coming out, she looks away and opens the door and leaves.

5 years have passed, Lilliane is now doing great with her father they are not living in peace, Lilliane owns a small business of hers too but it's just online selling, 'father!, I'm going to the city for a bit I'll be back for dinner hehe' she smiles and hugs her father on his back, her father laughed 'alright my little princess, be sure to come back soon tho' he chuckled

Lilliane pouted 'im not a kid anymore' she thought and smiled 'but, seems like Dad is much happier to call me that so I'm alright with it'

Lilliane let's go of her father 'okay I'm off, love you dad!' she said with a determined look

'alright see you Lilliane' he replied with a smile

When Lilliane left and arrived to the city, she was shy around strangers hence to why she's always looking down or looking at wherever she can to avoid looking at the people

Until when all of a sudden

4 Tall men towers over her 'Miss Lilliane De La Wistaria, you have to come with us'

Lilliane was confused and scared she was thinking of running away but then 'okay' she replied since they looked like officers

What will happen next