Moving

•••••Aaria's POV•••••

Beep Beep.......⏰⏰

I woke up by hearing my alarm buzzing loudly.

  I blindly tried to locate my alarm to shut it off before it wakes my cousin up, who is sleeping next door. 

  After locating it I instantly shut it off and again laid back to my bed and started to remember the same dream that is haunting me from the past 9 years.

Tears started to roll out of my eyes, then I heard my aunt's voice calling out for me. 

 Aunt: Aaria wake up dear, get ready or else we'll get late...

Then the reality hit me that today's the day.

Today, we're moving out.

 I hurriedly wiped my tears and get up from my bed. 

I made my way downstairs towards my aunt to ask her if she needed any help with packing.

 "Good morning Aunt," I said watching her checking the list.

Aunt: Good morning dear, go hurry and get ready. We need to leave in 2 hours.  It'll take 3 to 4 hours to reach there so go and get ready and have some breakfast.  I made some bacon with eggs.

Aaria: Okay aunt I will be back in 30 minutes.

Aunt: Aaria??

Aaria: Yes aunt do you need anything? (I asked)

Aunt: Yeah, please wake up Robert, or else we'll get late because of him and your uncle will start shouting.

Aaria: Yeah, sure aunt. ( I slowly replied)

I made my way upstairs and stood in front of Robert's door.

I slowly knocked on Robert's door.

(He opened then the door and scrunched his face looking at me)

Robert: What do you want bitch?

                 (He shouted at me )

Aaria: Uhm.. aunt wanted you to get ready soon we'll leave in 2 hours. (I hurriedly replied in fear)

Robert: Whatever... and don't you dare disturb me now or else you won't like the consequences bitch.(He spat angrily on my face and slammed the door shut on my face.)

Aaria: Okay...(Mumbling)

I went back to my room, and headed towards my wardrobe and grabbed the only pair of clothes that are hanging there, as all of my clothes are already packed. 

I went to the bathroom and did my morning routine and after taking a bath. 

I went to my vanity table dried my hairs and put on my cherry lip bam and some concealer on my neck to hide my bruises from my aunt, uncle and others. 

Yes bruises, no it's not that I'm abused by my aunt and uncle but yeah I'm abused, my cousin. 

 Yeah, the one and only "Robert ".

I turned to look back one last time to my room before taking my wooden box with me.

 This box contains my all past, my childhood, my invisible scars but it also contains some wonderful memories.

I took my box and made my way towards the end of the hallway.

I stood in front of a brown door and slowly touch it.

"I'll miss you," I whispered and hurriedly turned around to stop my tears from falling.

 I went downstairs and headed to the kitchen for some breakfast.  

I took some orange juice with some bacon with eggs.

 After completing my breakfast I went to see my aunt and asked if she needed anything. 

Aunt: Ohh dear, so are you excited to see your new home?? (She asked)

Aaria: Uhm. Yeah sure.

Aunt: Don't worry, you'll definitely like it there and you'll get to make new friends too. (She said happily)

Aaria: Yeah you're right ( friends, I don't have them and I really don't want them. I don't want them to get in trouble or get bullied because of me and if they came to know about my past then they'll definitely leave me and hate me.

 Well, I really hope that I won't get bullied there too because I'm tired of all this mess I just want to live peacefully now without any more troubles).

"Well, my aunt and uncle don't know about me being bullied because  I don't want to create any more trouble for myself.

 I don't want to create any more burden on them as I myself is the biggest burden. 

That's why I always keep my problems to myself and try to solve it. 

And another reason for not telling her the truth is my dear cousin Robert.

  I don't want him to hate me more than he already does, and I don't want my aunt to feel disappointed in him as he's their only child ."

We have to leave this place because my uncle shifted his head office from West Virginia to Blacksburg V.A and our aunt got transferred there with him as well as she's his personal secretary.  

After sending all our furniture and boxes through Xpress, we headed towards Uncle's car.

After putting some important and remaining stuff in the car. 

I hopped in the back seat of my Uncle's ford ecosport 2019 with my cousin seated on my left side while uncle drove the car and aunt settled in the passenger seat with him.

 I turned to look back one last time to the house, who is a witness to all pains, misery and grief with tears dancing in my eyes.

"I'll miss you guys" I slowly whispered under my breath while looking back at the house.

I turned my head around and hurriedly wipes my tears which are threatening to fall from my eyes.

We lived in West Virginia, it is land of rugged mountains it is also called "Mountain State". 

I loved this place, as I always used to find peace in those mountains & waterfalls.  

These places were my little escape from the harsh reality of this cruel world. 

It hurts to leave all this behind but somewhere deep down in my heart I feel like that whatever is happening it's for good and better.

I just hope that it's true.

I never wanted to leave this place,  as this is the place where I have some amazing, beautiful and very precious memories of my parents.

 I remember playing with them in the park and going to trekking in the mountains with them.

I remember camping with them.

 I miss my parents so much that it hurts like hell but whenever I miss them, that dreadful scene always comes in front of me to haunt me, mock me.

I came out of my thoughts when I heard my name being called.

Aunt: Aaria you okay? 

            You look lost and pale, do you have a fever?

( She asked looking worriedly at me, I can see it in her eyes. My Uncle was watching me from a rare view mirror if I am alright or not.)

Aaria: I'm fine aunt just tired of packing and all that stuff. ( I faked a smiled to assure her that I'm fine.)

Aunt: Are you sure dear? (She asked doubtfully)

Aaria: Yeah I'm fine aunt, don't worry.

(I glanced toward my Uncle and passed him a smile to assure him that I'm okay. He nodded and continued to focus on driving.)

It took us 3 hours to reach Blacksburg V.A and 30 minutes to reach our new home.

 It really was a long drive and now my body is hurting from sitting in the same position for this long.

I slept almost all the way as I couldn't sleep at night because of those nightmares. 

I hopped out and gasped after I saw the huge villa in front of me.

 We all were shocked except uncle to see this beautiful villa in front of us. 

It really is a beautiful villa with white colour paint on its outer walls, it has a beautiful garden, big backyard and a garage.  

Our moving truck was ahead of us so they have already moved all our boxes and furniture from truck to villa. 

Now we just have to unload some boxes which we bought with us in the car and get settled down after fixing everything in its proper place. 

I entered in villa with my wooden box in my hands and after entering I realized that this is much bigger than our previous home. 

It is painted with a dark colour on the inside. 

This villa is built with a steel structure around a concrete core and is filled with lightweight prefab timber exterior walls. 

The ground floor has a modern open kitchen and a large living room overlooking the water. 

Two guest rooms with bathrooms and a walk-in closet are located on the first floor, with access to a large terrace. And 2 normal sized bedrooms with bathroom and walk-in closet and a master bedroom with bathroom and walk-in closet is located on the top floor, connected to a private terrace to enjoy the evening sun.

I love this house. I choose the room at the opposite end of the first floor far away from the master bedroom. 

Robert choose one of the guest room as his bedroom so he can easily sneak out of the house without jumping. ( He didn't say it out loud though,  but I know it as I've seen him sneaking out of the house many times.)

After settling down we ordered take out as we're too tired to cook anything. 

After having dinner, I retired to my bed and mentally prepared myself to get ready for another night full of nightmares.

Please please comment if you're reading it and please tell me your views on this chapter.  This is my 1st novel, I'm not a professional writer.  Please ignore my mistakes and tell me your view because it really means a lot to me.