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Write a note in this area. It's reyuki had never asked for anything she had ever received in her life. she didn’t ask to be born on the same day as her older sister, she didn’t ask to have blue eyes (something NO ONE in her family had ever had), and she never asked to be the special kid.
it’s not that she didn’t want it – she just didn’t care if she didn’t have it.
nevertheless, she was extremely spoiled as a child. if she wanted something, she got it. If she wanted to go somewhere, they’d go there. It was almost as if she had her parents wrapped around her finger; they would give anything to her at the drop of a hat.
but she wasn’t mean or selfish because of this – in fact, she was quite the opposite. She just took advantage of her parents’ behavior towards her.
her sister, however, was her best friend in her early years. ayumi, five years older than her, was practically a god to Yuki. They’d romp outside and play games together, and sometimes ayumi would help Yuki up onto the roof and they’d make-believe they were astronauts. Anything Ayumi did, she wanted to do too. She worshipped the ground they walked on, and she loved them as much as her little heart could handle.
and then she saw the advertisement on tv for mountain town, and immediately fell in love. It was an amusement park (primarily for children), and the bright colours and friendly looking mascots drew her in. for her fourth birthday, she begged her parents to let her and ayumi go there.
and, yuki always got what she wanted. They went there once, and she became addicted. She just had to have all the toys they sold, and she just had to go on all the rides she was tall enough for at least three times. She went again for her fifth birthday, and again for her sixth, and again for her seventh.
just like clockwork, they went for her eighth birthday. At the end of the day, ayumi was nowhere to be found. they had gone missing, somehow, and although yuki didn’t quite understand, how they had completely vanished, she was still very upset.
once ayumi didn’t come back after a few weeks, everything started to change, bit by bit. she had never asked to be adored by her parents, but she had never wanted them to completely ignore her, either.
Her mother and father started treating her as if she didn’t exist, forgetting to feed her and take her to school, and they didn’t get along with each other as much as they did. yuki knew they were sad ayumi wasn’t home yet, but she couldn’t understand why they started acting this way.
yuki then realized that she had to fend for herself from now on, if her parents wouldn’t do it. She walked herself to the bus stop and made herself messy little snacks, learned how to do small loads of laundry, and even did her homework all by herself. a year passed, and nothing changed.
until crybaby appeared in her bedroom window.
yuki wasn’t afraid; it looked like a friendly clown, and yuki always knew clowns weren’t supposed to be scary. Everyone knew that. In a hushed voice, crybaby explained that she had to come back for her birthday this year; back to mountain town. When she asked why, it only said that it was a surprise. trusting the clown, she begged her parents over and over to go back for her birthday, and yuki always got what she wanted.
when they arrived, at the end of the day (just as crybaby had asked), she went to the back of the park and found crybaby waiting for her. It led her into the backstage, where it then told her to close her eyes and count to ten.
she never knew it was going to try to kill her. It was only a clown, after all.
it crept up behind her, but before it could do anything, a man by the name of Richard Belmonte rushed into the room and startled her, causing her to see crybaby behind her with a knife in hand. richard quickly ushered her out of the back, and told her to get his daughter and run. She had no clue what was going on (who was his daughter?), but yuki did as she was told and ran outside as fast as she could. A girl, about the same age as her, was waiting there, and yuki grabbed her hand and told her they needed to get help, because her dad was in big trouble. They quickly located an employee and led him to the back, where he refused to let them in. then, he took them to the security room and told them to stay put.
during the long hour or so they were in there, yuki learned that the girl’s name was Margaret, and they quickly became close friends (despite not knowing each other for more than an hour. Kids, am I right?). her favourite animal were bears, and she even had a teddy bear to prove it.
it was a very cute teddy bear. it also happened to move on its own.
margaret guessed that it was her father after a while, and it nodded. Margaret started to cry, which yuki didn’t understand. Why was he in her teddy bear?
it became very clear once he came out of the teddy bear as a ghost. It meant, simply, that he was dead.
Richard explained that he had made a mistake and it had caused his death, and it might’ve caused yuki’s too if he hadn’t been there to save her. she asked him what he did, and he said that he had accidentally killed ayumi, and they killed him in return.
yuki was furious with him, because she knew for a fact that ayumi would never hurt anyone ever! And if they were a ghost, then why didn’t they just come back home? It didn’t make sense to her, and she wouldn’t listen to him. After a while, the employee came back with yuki’s mother, who promptly took her home.
yuki screamed and wailed, because she didn’t want to leave her new friend and dad all by themselves, but her mother, for once in her life, wouldn’t give yuki what she wanted.
yuki asked and asked and asked and was never given the chance to see margaret or her father again.
she wouldn’t see them for a long time.

life changed abruptly after her parent’s learned of ayumi’s brutal death. Yuki never knew the exact details, but she knew it was bad. Her mother began to smoke incessantly day in and day out, and her father began to drink. The years went on, and yuki was forced to forget about margaret and her father, and even her sister. she now had her own problems to deal with; her mother had contracted lung cancer nearly a year later and her father was beginning to act aggressive towards yuki. In the two years that her mother continued to live, yuki’s days were spent going to school and visiting her mother in the hospital directly after. Then, she’d go home and avoid her father, do whatever work was needed to be done, and then she’d sleep. It was the same thing every day for two years, up until her mother died very quietly in her sleep.
her mother’s death destroyed her father, who was a terrible alcoholic by this point. To take out his anger, he would berate and belittle yuki, even becoming physical at points. She was miserable throughout her teenage years, until she found who she thought to be the love of her life, cass.
he was everything that any girl would want in a person: sweet, caring, gentle, you name it. He was the person you’d want to bring home to your parents. For yuki, however, that was not much of an option.
whenever her father began to get too much for her to handle, she’d call cass and he’d pick her up shortly after, to take her someplace where she could relax. she had to admit, it was pretty nice to get away from everything for a while.
after six months of dating, cass offered her a joint as he drove her away from her house yet another time. Without really thinking about the consequences, she took a drag off it. Then another. Then another. Then another. Then, she was high off of her ass.
she didn’t really understand what was going on through the haze of smoke that was in her eyes, but all she knew was that she didn’t like what cass was trying to do to her. He was trying to grab her in places she didn’t want to be grabbed and he kept kissing her even though she didn’t want to be kissed. She told him over and over again to get off, let her go for a second, and there was suddenly a searing pain in her arm.
there was blood everywhere, and her shoulder felt like it might come off any second. She didn’t understand what she had done, what did she do? And cass was screaming and calling someone on his phone, and her arm really hurt, and
she woke up in the hospital a few hours later, her head pounding and her shoulder feeling pretty shitty. Cass was sitting across from her, with his head in his hands.
he had hurt her, and he kept saying he was sorry for it, that he’d never do it again. Yuki was absolutely horrified.