Chapter 19: Neglected


    !!! *** WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MATERIALS THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING! SUCH AS SEVER NEGLECT, TRAUMA, AND ABUSE! READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!


    Blythe’s P.O.V.


    ~ A few dayster ~


    **


    Well, it’s been a few days, and nothing’s changed. I still don’t have bedding, or towels, or my damn bag. I’ve been sitting in the same clothes for almost a week. I did manage to steal some dish soap from the kitchen though, and washed my clothes in the sink in the bathroom. I showered, using the dish soap.


    Which means that my hair is a ratted mess fromck of conditioner and a brush.


    I’ve barely left my room. After the first two days of trying to get someone to get me my bag, I gave up.


    Nobody was listening to me. Even my old “friends” were shunning me.


    I saw C.G. for the first time after a couple of days, and he pretended like I didn’t exist, just like everyone


    else. I know he was doing it because of Karma, but it still pissed me off. And he thinks I’d ever take him


    seriously about bing his ol’dy? Please. He doesn’t care about me. None of them do. You don’t treat


    people you care about this way.


    All I am is a big joke to everyone. An easy target. Prey just waiting to be taunted.


    On the third day, I was so hungry that I walked into the kitchen and grabbed a te before anyone could stop me. With all the pretending I wasn’t here BS, I figured no one would stop me from getting some food.


    How wrong I was.


    Everly just so happened to have been blessed to be the one to tell me that I eat when everyone else in the club is done. If there was anything left, that is. And there barely was. I had to wait over two hours after breakfast was over to get some scraps. And scraps they were. Karma’s orders though, and he’s the prez,


    so his word isw.


    At least I got something though, and got Butter something. Yeah, never got cat food on top of everything else I never got. Fu.cking lying sack of sh.it.


    Yesterday, I only came out of my room to look for Karma. I was angry. I wanted my bag and I wanted food for Butter. Everything else I could put up with, but I deserved a change of clothes, a nice shower, and my cat deserved to eat. However, I couldn’t find him anywhere and nobody would tell me where he was.


    I tried to wait for him to show up, but after sitting on the frontwn for literally over five hours, I found out


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    that he had been in his office the whole time. Did he let me see him after I knocked on that door? Nope. He wouldn’t even let me get two words out before shouting at me to leave him alone.


    Today is a new day, but I have less hope than any other day. I can put up with it though. I don’t care about being shunned, or theck of things in my room. I’ve been through worse. I honestly don’t mind being left


    alone.


    I just wish my mom woulde back and tell them all to kick me out already.


    A knock at my door pulled me from my thoughts. Despite Karma’s warnings about having a babysitter, there wasn’t one that I ever noticed. So, when I opened the door, I was a little surprised to see a club girl standing on the other side. The blonde one that was practically screwing Psycho the night I got here. I still


    don’t know her name.


    Is she my babysitter?


    “Heyzy a.ss,” she greeted me with a fake smile. “I was told toe tell you to earn your keep.”


    “Excuse me?” I asked.


    She thrust a caddy of cleaning supplies into my chest.


    “Start with the main room and work your way out,” she said. “You need to pull some weight around here.


    Time for you to clean, Little Maid. Prez’s orders.”


    With that, she turned and left. I groaned as I looked at the cleaning supplies. Maybe if I do this Karma will


    give me my stuff.


    I walked to the main room and barely anyone was there. That’s probably why they want me to start here.


    Fine, I need to get it over with quickly.


    About an hourter, I was still cleaning the main room. I was horrified and disgusted at the things I saw


    and picked up. I, of course, wasn’t given gloves, so I had to improvise when picking up all the used


    condoms. I gagged mulitple times and was ready to call it quits. I hadn’t eaten since breakfast yesterday


    and it was barely even scraps. Mostly because there is never anything left after breakfast today and Everly


    threw away all the leftovers from lunch today.


    I stood up straight and swiped the back of my arm over my forhead to clear up the sweat.


    “Well, my, my, who do we have here.”


    I didn’t pay attentuon to the voice, mostly because I didn’t think he was talking to me. Nobody else is allowed to.


    “Hey, Babydoll, you new around here?” the voice asked, but this time it came with an arm that snaked around my waist.


    I jumped a foot in the air before roughly pushing away from him. I turned to re at the man I’ve never seen before. He’s a little older than me with greasy brown hair, a long beard, and bright blue eyes. I got the creeps from him instantly. Probably because of that predetory look in his eyes.


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    “Afraid?” He asked me. “I like ’em like that.”


    And his creep factor skyrocketed.


    “w!” One of the other brothers snapped. “You weren’t here for ourst church, soe over here so I


    can exin some things.”


    I watched as w walked off. He looked back at me, throwing me a wink. My stomach churched at the thought of what that man was capable of.


    Note to self: stay away from w.


    A few more hourster and I was working my way through the kitchen. Of course, dinner was done and served by the time I made it here. No leftovers again. Found them in the trash as I changed it and took it


    out. I almost cried out of frustration.


    At this rate, I really will starve to death. Maybe it’s for the best. At least I’ve been able to get Butter some food so he won’t have to suffer. Poor guy, he got really unlucky having me as an owner. Maybe he would


    have been better off on the streets.


    I was scrubbing the floors when a few giggling girls walked in. I hoped they’d ignore me, since that’s apparently what they were told to do. But Everly has always done what she wanted.


    “Look girls,” she said, standing over me. “It’s the club’s new maid.”


    The other three girls snickered. One of them is that blonde bimbo, the club girl. I recognized Alex right away and I wasn’t even surprised by the skantically de outfit she had on. Her butt is literally falling out of her id skirt, and I can see her whole are through the sheer fabric of her top.


    I cannot believe that Mia and Batch let her dress like that. I know she’s an adult now, and I don’t like to


    sl.ut shame, but Alex is a special case. Plus, I hate her.


    Thest girl I didn’t know. I recognize her from my first night back here, but I have no idea who she is.


    Looks like she’s good friends with the club princesses though.


    “It’s because none of the guys wanted to fu.ck her,” Blonde Bimbo said,ughing. “She had to earn her keep


    somehow.”


    “Earn,” Everly scoffed, looking at me like I was mud under her shoe. “No one even wants you here. Just leave already. You’re gross to look at. Like an eyesore. And aren’t these the clothes you showed up in?


    Gross,”


    I tried to ignore her and go back to cleaning, but Everly didn’t like that. She stepped on the hand I was using to scrub the floor with her stilettos. She put slight pressure on my hand, but not enough to cause serious pain. At least she wasn’t trying to stab me with that spiked heel.


    I looked up at her again, raising a brow.


    Chapter 19. Neglected “You’re so pathetic Blythe, always have been.” She said, sneering at me. “You think things will be the same as before? They won’t, but they won’t be better. Not for you. You’re just a lowly, useless, worthless, piece of trash. Not even your own mother wanted you anymore. Though, a few words to her dumba.ss and she was eating out of the palm of my hand.” My anger started to grow when she said that about my mom. “No wonder why you turned out so useless. Your mom’s the same. I have no idea what my dad sees in her. She’s just as pathetic and useless and worthless as-”


    I cut Everly off when I ripped my hand away, making her stumbled backwards. I shot to my feet so fast I got dizzy, but I hoped I had hid it well. I got right in her face, throwing my rag to the floor.


    “How dare you talk about her that way!” I seethed. “She’s your stepmother, the woman who helped raise you in your teen years, the woman who chose you over her own daughter, and you think it’s cute to say sh.it like that? And you say we’re the pathetic ones. Aren’t you grown now, Ev? As for being useless and


    worthless… well, better than being bitter I guess.”


    Everly’s and Alex’s eyes widened. I looked right at Alex, ready to unleash my pent-up rage. It’s been years in


    the making.


    “Oh, I see you still dress like the town sl.ut,” Imented, looking her up and down. “I might be useless, worthless, pathetic… but damn at least I’m not desperate. What a greatbo though, desperate and bitter. No wonder why the two of you have always slept with each other’s boyfriends behind each other’s backs. Or lied to teachers about each other. Or, there was that one time that Alex fu.cked the college guy


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    Both their faces turned red and they stiffened. The blonde bimbo and the other girl went wide-eyed, but I


    didn’t back down. I didn’t care.


    “You stupid fu.cking bit.ch!” Alex screeched.


    I heard the p echo through the air before I felt the sting to my cheek. My head had turned from the force. I think I was more shocked than anything. As much as these two bullied me, they never out-right hit


    me like that before.


    However, it was a weak ppared to what I’ve went through.


    “Alex,” Blonde Bimbo hissed, terror in her voice.


    “What? She deserved it! How dare you!” Alex screamed at me right before smacking me again on the


    opposite cheek.


    All I could in the moment wasugh. Hysterically. Like I had lost my mind.


    “Are you crazy?” Everly asked me, her face scrunched up in disgust.


    “What the hell is going on here?!”


    Karma burst through the door, shouting and taking in the scene. The more Iughed, the more light-headed I felt. Which made meugh more. I knew what it felt like right before I passed out. Whether from hunger, pain, or exhaustion.


    “Blythe, why are you in that fucking diner uniform again?” He bit out.


    Again?


    I tried to ask the question out loud, but my mouth wasn’t working. I was too weak from not eating. Then all the stress from this freaking drama after cleaning for hours straight.


    “What are you…?” Karma trailed off as he looked at the cleaning supplies on the floor. “Have you been


    cleaning?”


    “S-sor… I’ll… get back…” I trailed off as my eyes rolled back and I felt my knees go weak.


    And then everything went dark.