The Traps of Black Swan

Ava ignored the party of three. She had just walked a few steps inside the living hall, the laughter died down and her heartbeats elevated. Before she could even reach the staircase, she felt a strong tug at her arm.

'Pak.'

The dizziness worsened, Ava was inflicted by a new pain causing her ears to buzz with a weird sound. Before she could clearly see the beautiful face of her seething mother, Ava fainted.

'Thump.'

Instead of worrying about why Ava was in that state, her mother ordered the maids to drag the unconscious girl out of the villa. Of course, the maids did what was ordered to them. They had held Ava's hands, dragged her on the floor, out of the villa, down the few steps, and left her on the ground.

Another maid had brought a tub of water and handed it to Shane Kelly who had asked for it. He splashed the water on Ava, jolting her awake. She coughed hard to catch her breath.

Ava had yet to recover from the buzzing pain, dizziness, her mother kicked her in the stomach. Maisie never used less strength so Ava rolled on the ground groaning in pain hugging her stomach.

Why did it hurt much more than what cops and Leon did to her? Ava withered on the ground. The last string slipped out.

"Where do you think you are coming? Look at your state, are you trying to transfer your disease to us? We have already suffered much because of you. Get out of here." Her mother roared at her without a hint of motherly love, care, or concern. All she had for Ava Kelly was intense hatred and disgust.

"Mom, how could you say that?" Her younger brother rushed up to Ava but he was held back by their mother. He struggled to reach Ava but failed.

Shane Kelly, her father grabbed a handful of her hair and pulled her up from the ground. Her scalp prickled causing her to clench her teeth. 

Shane Kelly bellowed at her, "You dirty prick, do you know how much money I lost because of you? Why are you even alive? Go and jump in front of a vehicle or drown yourself to death."

Ava stubbornly held back her tears gazing at her biological parents who never acted like one. She braced herself for more pain when her so-called father dragged her to the gates and shoved her to the road as roughly as he could.

Ava's younger brother ran up to them, "Dad, don't do that. Dad, sister is hurt...."

Maisie quickly grabbed his hand and scolded him as she dragged him away, "You don't have a sister. Get that straight. Enough of drinks, go and sleep."

Meanwhile, Shane Kelly didn't have an ounce of pity or humanity looking at her even as a mere woman. He kicked her as soon as she fell to the ground. 

The pain lashed across her lower back causing her to bite her lip hard but the groan in agony left her throat.

Each decision she had taken that day was worse than the previous. She shouldn't have left her office but she thought to move on in her life. She shouldn't have trusted Grace, yet she listened to her and went to the club to make her happy. She shouldn't have provoked Leon, still, she hurt him. She should have understood the reality of law and administration, however, she tried to write a complaint so boldly. She shouldn't have thought about her parents, now she was suffering more.

Her world had changed upside down, yet she was trying to gather herself on the ground hearing her father threaten her as he will call security to throw her out of regency. He also thought of calling the police to send her behind the bars.

Completely drenched, she was quivering to the cold breeze in the regency. Even the trees in the regency were giving her a hard time. Her body was twitching in pain when she slowly limped to leave from there.

She had no words for her parents because that's exactly what she had expected from her parents. She would have been in shock or alarmed if they had treated her well. She was just pushing her limits to finally be able to say they aren't her parents. And she finally let go of her emotions and accepted as she doesn't have parents.

While limping away, the ten minutes walk took more than half an hour. She removed her heels. She didn't know if she wanted to relieve some pain, but the hard surface of the road continued to hurt her smooth feet. The small cuts and bruises didn't take long to appear as soon as she left the regency to uneven roads.

She had thought that's it for the night. There will be a new morning and she could be a new Ava Kelly, who will be focused on her work without the thought of her family and how they had treated her.

Anyway, it didn't take long before her open-eye dream of living better collapsed.

"There she is. Catch her." Ava Kelly heard the piercing sharp tone in the eerie silent night. She turned behind and saw some burly men getting off the car to chase after her in the small alley which she was taking as a shortcut to reach her office.

The images of Leon and the cops trying to abuse her surfaced back in her thoughts. She started to run away from them. She took a few small turns to get rid of their trail but her speed was too slow due to her over-exhausted body.

Breathing heavily, she leaned on the door of a small studio to catch a breath, unable to lift her limb. Suddenly the door opened to her weight and she fell to another side of the door. She curled up due to the intense pain that coursed in her nerves before she fainted. 

The auto-closing door, which was open, slowly closed before the men took a turn at that street after checking each alleyway.

Ava Kelly who had fainted was getting the dreams of men molesting her so it didn't take too long for her to jolt awake in tears. She didn't get to cry for it either. She groaned, pressing her back where her father had kicked her in his shoes. Anyway, the dark, unknown room she was in, frightened her more.

Taking the help of a street light entering inside through the windows, she opened the door and crawled out on her four limbs. She carefully watched her surroundings before taking each step with high caution.

It was past one when she rushed to the road, waving her hand at the bus give stop. Her swollen eyes weren't able to read the LED board, she climbed the bus hearing the driver curse her if she wanted to die. She gave money that was in her jacket pocket.

"Where do you want to go?" The driver asked in a foul voice, displeased at how she looked.

Ava just knew it wasn't city-busy. She stammered, "L-last s-stop." She got the ticket before he opened the door to enter the passenger section. Not many passengers were there and all were sleeping.

She went further inside the bus and took a seat. She really wanted the bus to take her far, far away from there where she doesn't have to run from anyone in fear. She didn't mind even if she had to do fieldwork somewhere in a poor village but she was tired of running for her life.

She was finally able to take a breath when the bus started to move, she drank water that was provided on the bus. Before she could realize what was happening to her, the darkness covered her vision, her body gave away and she collapsed on the next seat without any senses.