The Cruel Super Hero

Kim's body wasn't giving her a good feeling. Not that she was in any way sick but then she just felt this sudden emptiness in her. It felt like something was going to go wrong with her life. Her life wasn't going as if she really enjoyed it, but then she was really used to it.

Just that her hunch became real that time. Tasha, her sister approached her. If not that Kim didn't have the strength to stand up, she would have stood up and run before Tasha got to her. Tasha is an embodiment of trouble.

"........ Did you really say that to him? " Tasha shouted.

Tasha couldn't just understand her sister. Why would she just ignore the most handsome guy in their school whom all girls would give anything just to be able to sit close.

Kim looked at her not knowing what Tasha was talking about. She knew Tasha to be a trouble maker and she couldn't make anything but cause trouble.

"Won't you answer me!" She bawled.

"I don't know what you are talking about," Kim said calmly.

She was already having enough of a headache.

"I'm talking about Paul," she said in anger.

Kim didn't know what her stress was. She was the one whom he talked with, not her.

"I'm not just interested in talking to anyone" Kim replied without looking at her sister who was boiling with anger.

"Don't give me that crap girl!" she bawled.

Tasha was one of the school hotties, she carried herself with so much regal that it showed vividly in how she walked. She doesn't particularly talk to Kim but today she came all because a news was passed to her that the cutest guy in their school tried to talk to her younger sister and he was ignored.

Kim on the other hand couldn't fathom the reason her so called elder sister was getting rattled up just because she ignored a guy.

"Why shout?" she asked, a bit irritated by her behaviour.

"Don't you dare ask me such questions. You, a lowlife insolent being, got a chance to speak to Paul and all you could do is ignore him. At least you should have accommodated him so that I can come claim him from you before the poor guy gets fixed in your horrible miserable dirty life" she said, eyeing her.

Kim was used to all the abusive words Tasha did use on her and she was more glad that she ignored the guy.

Kim ignored her words and picked up her book and started to read. Everytime things like this occur, she tries to picture herself as if she wasn't around there. Sometimes it became unbearable that she began to wonder why the Gramm adopted her.

If she was to look into it, it wasn't as if they were in need of a child because they got Tasha and her elder brother Matthew. This thought baffles her a lot but she couldn't get an answer. She also knew that one day the truth will surface.

That same evening when they got home, Tasha, just for revenge for getting ignored, lied to her parents that Kim skipped school. The mother who was always looking for an avenue to punish the poor girl, didn't even think twice before believing.

Tasha, knowing her parents' hatred for the poor girl, especially her mother, does hinge on that to make her suffer.

"Kim! " Liza shouted, it was more like a roar.

Kim when she heard that roar knew immediately that Tasha had been up with her games. She has gotten so used to it that it never bothers her anymore.

She walked slowly to the living room where Liza was sitting and stood a distance from her.

"Can't you come closer?" She blurts out.

Kim took a step further.

"How dare you ingrate, skip school to go sleep around with men!" She shouted.

"I didn't skip school" Kim defended herself.

Being a very meek person, she was still grateful to them for saving her from the pain and loneliness of the orphanage home. But isn't the orphanage better off this torture? Yet Kim would think that they changed to her because they might have heard a secret about her family. She never blamed them for what they were doing to her.

"You dare stand in front of me to lie?"

"I'm not lying," Kim said with a fidgeting voice.

Truly she was tired of all they did to her and she wished her life could be better but it seemed she was doomed for pain.

The beating Liza gave her didn't affect her as much as the announcement she made after the whole beating.

"Today is the last day you will see the wall of that school. I can't let my husband waste so much money on a moron! " she said with so much resentment in her voice.

It was like a whole building fell on Kim when she heard that. Education was her only hope for getting out of suffering. It was said to her face that her way of escape had just been sealed.

Kim's tears fell uncontrollably as she began to beg Liza but she turned deaf ears. Tasha was so glad by this announcement and smiles danced in her pale blue eyes.

Looking at the gladness rolling in Tasha's eyes, one would think that she just ended the life of a competitor. When in the real sense, Kim wasn't even close to her competitor.

Kim had a gaunt look due to how she was treated. She didn't even have time to take care of herself. All she just tried to do is to get herself cleaned while Tasha on the other hand was a beauty to behold. She has all the time and enough money to take care of herself. She doesn't do anything aside from partying and reading her books.

Despite how spoiled Tasha was, she took time for her studies. Although she wasn't the top of her class, she had good grades. This was one thing Kim liked about her.

Although Kimberly was the smartest kid in her class, that shouldn't instigate envy from Tasha because they were classmates.

"Mum, don't do this. I'll do anything you ask me to do. I swear" Kim cried out.