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Chapter one
House of tragedies

      Screams…
     All that anyone can hear in one of February's cold nights are the screams of a couple from the Davis house.
      Lila Davis took a deep breath and stopped chatting with her friend on the internet just to get up and shut her room's door in order to avoid her parents' screams in the middle of the night. Then she carelessly continued her chat with her friend Kathy.
      She apologized typing "sorry… my parents are fighting again, so I had to close the door"
    "it's okay… you didn't take that long anyway" Kathy replied "I can't believe this… your parents are the richest people in town and they live in a huge house that anyone would think it's a paradise, yet they fight like they're in hell".
      Lila took awhile before typing "believe it" to Kathy… she never wondered about the reasons of her parents' endless conflicts, because she already knew that they fight about everything even the simplest things.
     They make me sick! Is one sentence that is forever tattooed in her black heart.
     Whenever two people battle each other to make out their point, the whole family, specially their children, get affected and become victims of their war. Eventually, the war between them will grow black seeds… in this case Lila is the black seed.
     Few minutes later Kathy sent a message to Lila's computer "I have to go to bed. It's 1:00 am in the morning".
     Feeling a little bit of disappointment, Lila typed "But we have no school tomorrow… it's Saturday".
  "I know" Kathy replied nervously "but I'm … kind of tired".
  "Okay fine!" Lila had no choice but to say her goodnights to Kathy and turn off her computer.
     After that, she sat on the bed holding her pillow, trying hard to sleep in the middle of her parents' screams. It's impossible to sleep while a storm is taking away the roof, even though Lila can only hear few words coming out of her parents like "back off" "I didn't mean to…" and "I hate…"
     Half an hour later, Lila has had enough out of it. She angrily ran to her door and slapped it open, made her way to the stairs and planning to shout "shut up both of you" to her mother and father.
     But she stopped half way down the stairs staring at her parents like she's living in some kind of tragic movie. Her mother on her knees, her red face is washed with her tears and her head is close to the ground while the husband is looking the other way with a furious look on his face.
     "I am your wife" screamed Mrs. Davis raising her head away from the floor "It's my job to know where you have been in this late hour".
    "We've been through this over and over again" replied Mr. Davis with a cold voice "I had an urgent meeting in the ministry".
    "Liar!" yelled the mother in a very high pitched shout.
    "Shut up" wailed the father. His voice echoed all over the enormous palace while his huge fist punched his wife right in the face "Don’t ever raise your voice at me. Do you hear me?"
   The mother shaking on the ground answered in terror "yes… yes… I'm so… sorry".
     Lila was just sitting on the stairs' steps, calmly watching the terrible scene of her parents killing each other slowly. She was entertained by all of this, sitting there with a teasing smile on her cherry lips just staring.
     No one was there to stop the war. All the maids and butlers are worried to lose their job that pays them generous awards if they interfere in their masters' issues, so they locked their self in their rooms.
     "I think we both had enough for one night" said Mr. Davis "get up and clean yourself" he ordered his wife before heading to his room upstairs. After noticing his daughter staring at him he asked joyfully " hey princess! What are you doing up so late?"
     Lila stood up to answer her father's question "oh I am thirsty, so I decided to get some water".
     "Don’t pay any attention to your mother "He said as fast as he could "She is just having a breakdown".
     "I don’t even care" she said with a girly voice "sweet dreams, daddy" then she gave him a fake kiss on his cheeks. All that was left for him to do is to say "that’s my girl" and turn to his room.
     Lila continued down the stairs to the hall, and she stood in front of her mother, facing her while the poor woman is laying on the ground crying her eyes out silently.

     Lila bent down to her mother's level and held her face softly just to take a good look at her red eyes. "Didn’t you hear the man when he ordered you to clean your pathetic self up?" she asked with Satan's smile on her face.
      Her mother wasn't surprised of her daughter's behavior at all, because she knew deep down in her heart that her Lila grew up to be an identical copy of her father, both with the same dark heart. Instead, Mrs. Davis continued producing hot tears from her eyes' factory.
     Lila violently let go of her mother's face standing high and looking down to her mother "I don’t even want to look at you" she said. Her mother couldn't do anything but stay still on the floor with her untidy hair, swollen eye and broken heart.
     "You don't have a heart" Mrs. Davis shouted while her daughter Lila was about to walk back to her room.
    "I don’t have a heart?" Lila said with a careless smile, and then she burst out laughing loudly for a long time. After the devil's laugh she finally said "tell me something I don’t know".
     How can someone so beautiful, like Lila, be so ugly from the inside?! Mrs. Davis asked herself repeatedly, looking at her daughter.
     "Oh my god! For heaven's sake… clean your hideous face first then talk to me" Lila said feeling disgusted just before she left her mother all alone in the hall, heartbroken.
     Lila went to knock violently on her maid's door " hey you! What's your name… get up and make me a sandwich".
   "Yes… yes madam" quickly the maid got out of her room."I'll make a sandwich… right away".
     "Faster" Lila ordered loudly.
    "Here you are, madam" the maid said politely, handing the sandwich to Lila. "Can I be excused now?"
     Lila cried "of course not… you have to stay and talk with me so I don’t get bored while I eat".
     And so, the maid stayed up with Lila just looking at her eating her sandwich.
"Why won't you talk? A cat ate your tongue" called out Lila.
"Um… no miss… I don't have anything to say" replied the maid.
     Lila took a big bite of her sandwich and said "I see… so… what do you think of my happy parents and their world war three?"
     The maid studied this question throughly then finally answered it "I think… I shouldn’t get involve in…"
"I order you to answer my question" Lila said with a full mouth.
     The maid got nervous, but she began to talk "well… I think that your parents… are having one of those tough times… they will get over it soon and forget about their fights… I hope"
     "Don't be ridiculous" replied Lila while swallowing the sandwich bites "This whole stupid war won't end easily. Besides, my mom is giving my dad the worst time of his life, making it hard for him to shut up".
     "Miss…" called the maid "I think you should be a little kind to your mother… she loves you and her…"
     "Shut your mouth" Lila interrupted the maid with her screams "your job is to clean and work for me… not give me advices on how to live my life. Do you understand me or is it too hard for your brain to comprehend?"
     "I'm sorry miss" apologized the maid with a low voice "I didn’t mean it that way".
     After that cold discussion, neither one of them made a sound nor looked at each other, Lila continued eating while the maid was waiting for her to finish.
   "What's your name?" Lila demanded to know after she finished her sandwich and handed the plate to the maid so she would wash it.
     The maid hesitated "You're not… going to tell your parents to fire me, are you? Please, I need this job… I promise…"
     "Hey! Chill, I just want to know so I can call you whenever I want" Lila calmed her down "You are new here, right?"
"I've been working here for two years" said the maid.
"Oh really? Funny, I didn’t notice you before" smiled Lila to the maid who is washing the empty plate. "So, are you going to answer my question?"
     "My name is Miley, miss" said the maid.
     "I like it…Miley" Lila said with a smile "So Miley, what do you think of me?"
"You are a… beautiful young lady" said the maid after a pause.
     With a look, Lila cried proudly "I know that part. What do you think of my personality?"
     A bit worried, the maid had to lie and say "Well, I think you're a good person"
     Hearing this, Lila's smile fade away because she knew that Miley the maid wasn’t telling the truth. She felt furious about it, but kept her feeling for herself and told the maid that she was tired "I'll go to bed now, see you tomorrow Miley".
    Lila went back to her room and hugged her pillow on the bed. She looked to the clock to find out that it's 3:00 am and she couldn't sleep.
     She thought of the world in general and why it's full of liars that are afraid to tell the truth. Most of them think that lying will avoid problems, but actually lying saves the problems for later to make times even worst.
     Why did Miley lie?! Lila asked herself. Is it because she didn’t want to hurt my feelings? Or is she afraid of me? I know I'm not a good person and it's too late to be one now…
     "I'll show her what kind of a good person I am" she cried with anger. "I'll make her life a living hell!"
     She thought of revenge, on her back laying and smiling, playing with her hair and planning what she'll do the next day.
     What a miserable life they are living. Even though the Davis family is rolling in cash, they still can't find happiness.
     Tear drops fell down on Lila's cheeks with her eyes closed tight, still holding her pillow near her chest and facing the roof.
     Finally she fell asleep…

Description
Chapter one
House of tragedies

      Screams…
     All that anyone can hear in one of February's cold nights are the screams of a couple from the Davis house.
      Lila Davis took a deep breath and stopped chatting with her friend on the internet just to get up and shut her room's door in order to avoid her parents' screams in the middle of the night. Then she carelessly continued her chat with her friend Kathy.
      She apologized typing "sorry… my parents are fighting again, so I had to close the door"
    "it's okay… you didn't take that long anyway" Kathy replied "I can't believe this… your parents are the richest people in town and they live in a huge house that anyone would think it's a paradise, yet they fight like they're in hell".
      Lila took awhile before typing "believe it" to Kathy… she never wondered about the reasons of her parents' endless conflicts, because she already knew that they fight about everything even the simplest things.
     They make me sick! Is one sentence that is forever tattooed in her black heart.
     Whenever two people battle each other to make out their point, the whole family, specially their children, get affected and become victims of their war. Eventually, the war between them will grow black seeds… in this case Lila is the black seed.
     Few minutes later Kathy sent a message to Lila's computer "I have to go to bed. It's 1:00 am in the morning".
     Feeling a little bit of disappointment, Lila typed "But we have no school tomorrow… it's Saturday".
  "I know" Kathy replied nervously "but I'm … kind of tired".
  "Okay fine!" Lila had no choice but to say her goodnights to Kathy and turn off her computer.
     After that, she sat on the bed holding her pillow, trying hard to sleep in the middle of her parents' screams. It's impossible to sleep while a storm is taking away the roof, even though Lila can only hear few words coming out of her parents like "back off" "I didn't mean to…" and "I hate…"
     Half an hour later, Lila has had enough out of it. She angrily ran to her door and slapped it open, made her way to the stairs and planning to shout "shut up both of you" to her mother and father.
     But she stopped half way down the stairs staring at her parents like she's living in some kind of tragic movie. Her mother on her knees, her red face is washed with her tears and her head is close to the ground while the husband is looking the other way with a furious look on his face.
     "I am your wife" screamed Mrs. Davis raising her head away from the floor "It's my job to know where you have been in this late hour".
    "We've been through this over and over again" replied Mr. Davis with a cold voice "I had an urgent meeting in the ministry".
    "Liar!" yelled the mother in a very high pitched shout.
    "Shut up" wailed the father. His voice echoed all over the enormous palace while his huge fist punched his wife right in the face "Don’t ever raise your voice at me. Do you hear me?"
   The mother shaking on the ground answered in terror "yes… yes… I'm so… sorry".
     Lila was just sitting on the stairs' steps, calmly watching the terrible scene of her parents killing each other slowly. She was entertained by all of this, sitting there with a teasing smile on her cherry lips just staring.
     No one was there to stop the war. All the maids and butlers are worried to lose their job that pays them generous awards if they interfere in their masters' issues, so they locked their self in their rooms.
     "I think we both had enough for one night" said Mr. Davis "get up and clean yourself" he ordered his wife before heading to his room upstairs. After noticing his daughter staring at him he asked joyfully " hey princess! What are you doing up so late?"
     Lila stood up to answer her father's question "oh I am thirsty, so I decided to get some water".
     "Don’t pay any attention to your mother "He said as fast as he could "She is just having a breakdown".
     "I don’t even care" she said with a girly voice "sweet dreams, daddy" then she gave him a fake kiss on his cheeks. All that was left for him to do is to say "that’s my girl" and turn to his room.
     Lila continued down the stairs to the hall, and she stood in front of her mother, facing her while the poor woman is laying on the ground crying her eyes out silently.

     Lila bent down to her mother's level and held her face softly just to take a good look at her red eyes. "Didn’t you hear the man when he ordered you to clean your pathetic self up?" she asked with Satan's smile on her face.
      Her mother wasn't surprised of her daughter's behavior at all, because she knew deep down in her heart that her Lila grew up to be an identical copy of her father, both with the same dark heart. Instead, Mrs. Davis continued producing hot tears from her eyes' factory.
     Lila violently let go of her mother's face standing high and looking down to her mother "I don’t even want to look at you" she said. Her mother couldn't do anything but stay still on the floor with her untidy hair, swollen eye and broken heart.
     "You don't have a heart" Mrs. Davis shouted while her daughter Lila was about to walk back to her room.
    "I don’t have a heart?" Lila said with a careless smile, and then she burst out laughing loudly for a long time. After the devil's laugh she finally said "tell me something I don’t know".
     How can someone so beautiful, like Lila, be so ugly from the inside?! Mrs. Davis asked herself repeatedly, looking at her daughter.
     "Oh my god! For heaven's sake… clean your hideous face first then talk to me" Lila said feeling disgusted just before she left her mother all alone in the hall, heartbroken.
     Lila went to knock violently on her maid's door " hey you! What's your name… get up and make me a sandwich".
   "Yes… yes madam" quickly the maid got out of her room."I'll make a sandwich… right away".
     "Faster" Lila ordered loudly.
    "Here you are, madam" the maid said politely, handing the sandwich to Lila. "Can I be excused now?"
     Lila cried "of course not… you have to stay and talk with me so I don’t get bored while I eat".
     And so, the maid stayed up with Lila just looking at her eating her sandwich.
"Why won't you talk? A cat ate your tongue" called out Lila.
"Um… no miss… I don't have anything to say" replied the maid.
     Lila took a big bite of her sandwich and said "I see… so… what do you think of my happy parents and their world war three?"
     The maid studied this question throughly then finally answered it "I think… I shouldn’t get involve in…"
"I order you to answer my question" Lila said with a full mouth.
     The maid got nervous, but she began to talk "well… I think that your parents… are having one of those tough times… they will get over it soon and forget about their fights… I hope"
     "Don't be ridiculous" replied Lila while swallowing the sandwich bites "This whole stupid war won't end easily. Besides, my mom is giving my dad the worst time of his life, making it hard for him to shut up".
     "Miss…" called the maid "I think you should be a little kind to your mother… she loves you and her…"
     "Shut your mouth" Lila interrupted the maid with her screams "your job is to clean and work for me… not give me advices on how to live my life. Do you understand me or is it too hard for your brain to comprehend?"
     "I'm sorry miss" apologized the maid with a low voice "I didn’t mean it that way".
     After that cold discussion, neither one of them made a sound nor looked at each other, Lila continued eating while the maid was waiting for her to finish.
   "What's your name?" Lila demanded to know after she finished her sandwich and handed the plate to the maid so she would wash it.
     The maid hesitated "You're not… going to tell your parents to fire me, are you? Please, I need this job… I promise…"
     "Hey! Chill, I just want to know so I can call you whenever I want" Lila calmed her down "You are new here, right?"
"I've been working here for two years" said the maid.
"Oh really? Funny, I didn’t notice you before" smiled Lila to the maid who is washing the empty plate. "So, are you going to answer my question?"
     "My name is Miley, miss" said the maid.
     "I like it…Miley" Lila said with a smile "So Miley, what do you think of me?"
"You are a… beautiful young lady" said the maid after a pause.
     With a look, Lila cried proudly "I know that part. What do you think of my personality?"
     A bit worried, the maid had to lie and say "Well, I think you're a good person"
     Hearing this, Lila's smile fade away because she knew that Miley the maid wasn’t telling the truth. She felt furious about it, but kept her feeling for herself and told the maid that she was tired "I'll go to bed now, see you tomorrow Miley".
    Lila went back to her room and hugged her pillow on the bed. She looked to the clock to find out that it's 3:00 am and she couldn't sleep.
     She thought of the world in general and why it's full of liars that are afraid to tell the truth. Most of them think that lying will avoid problems, but actually lying saves the problems for later to make times even worst.
     Why did Miley lie?! Lila asked herself. Is it because she didn’t want to hurt my feelings? Or is she afraid of me? I know I'm not a good person and it's too late to be one now…
     "I'll show her what kind of a good person I am" she cried with anger. "I'll make her life a living hell!"
     She thought of revenge, on her back laying and smiling, playing with her hair and planning what she'll do the next day.
     What a miserable life they are living. Even though the Davis family is rolling in cash, they still can't find happiness.
     Tear drops fell down on Lila's cheeks with her eyes closed tight, still holding her pillow near her chest and facing the roof.
     Finally she fell asleep…