The Raven

Jenny Marcus was a normal 16 year old girl, accept the fact that her mother died when she was very young and her father was sexually and verbally abusive. He would constantly rape her and then afterwards, tell her how ugly and stupid she was. Jenny believed him. Until she had found the love of her life-- Waylon Cross. He told her how beautiful she was... he gave her the love she could never get from her father. Long story short, Jenny decided to have a child with him. Once Waylon knew she was pregnant, he disappeared. Jenny never heard from him again. But she kept her child. Nine months later, Raven Marcus was born. A beautiful, healthy baby girl, with delightfully bright green eyes. Everyone thought she was the most adorable thing on the face of the planet...
After ten years of caring for and loving Raven with all of her heart, Jenny became jealous. Raven had bright eyes filled with glee, Jenny had dark brown eyes filled with pain. She was hateful towards Raven because of that. So Jenny stopped being so caring and kind. She would neglect Raven, and start telling her she was ugly.
When Raven was 12, Jenny Could see that Raven was developing into a beautiful young woman. Her breasts had started to come in, nice and perky-- the way Jenny wanted her breasts to look. Raven was getting curves-- curves Jenny wish she had.... And her face... Raven's face was far beyond the common definition of beauty. She had Big green eyes that could light the moon, full naturally red lips that could catch the eye of grown men, rosy cheeks that could be pinched by ever grandmother for miles around, and her skin was so much more clear than other pre-teens. Perfect, and blemish free. Jenny HATED Raven for that. So one night as Raven was sleeping, Jenny takes a knife, and makes a long diagonal slice across her face from the left side of her jaw, to her right eyebrow. Jenny felt a cold rush throughout her body after doing that. She knew she had destroyed Ravens face... and she was DAMN proud of it.
When Raven was 16, Jenny had enough. Everyone felt bad for Raven and her scar, so she got even more attention and compliments, lucky for Jenny, Raven told everyone she had an accident with a cooking utensil. She was happy that Raven loved her more than she loved Raven. Or else she would be rotting in prison where she belongs... Jenny didn't care what happened to her, she wanted Raven gone. So She tried to kill her-- but she was going to start with the most beautiful thing Raven had left... her eyes. Raven's bright and glorious eyes that every man on the corners of the world admired. So one day when Raven returned from school, Jenny Jumps her and stabs her in the eyes with a needle. She wanted her to suffer, she wanted to hear the screams of pain and resent. As she stabbed her innocent daughter, Raven buries her long fingernails into the flesh of her mother. Jenny screeches in pain and gets off of Raven.
Raven, unable to see things besides the general outline, runs off into the woods and hides deep within the dark and mysterious brush. She cries. Raven is terrified-- Raven cannot believe that her once kind and joyous mother could ever possibly have the urge to harm her.
Raven ran hard and didn't stop for anything. Everything she saw was a blur but she could see outlines of trees, smelled fresh pine, and felt sap on her hands. She fell to her knees and cried, not in pain but sorrow. She slow stood and ran her hand along trees to find her way.
Hours had past and while her vision had not been perfect, she still managed to see object with a bit more detailed. She put her hand on her right cheek, she felt something wet. Slowly she moved her hand into vision. The liquid had been the color of her eyes, a beautiful green. The color had leaked from her eyes, staining her cheeks. She then ran her hand across her cut that had scabbed over now. She slowly started to rip the scab off, she wanted it to scar.
Raven found her way home, she saw the police there and slowly made her way near. Keeping herself hidden, raven listened to the conversation between the officers and that hell of a woman.
Jenny was crying, a fake cry that raven had seen many times before.
One of the Officers spoke, “calm down Miss Marcus, now please tell us what happened.
Jenny spoke in between her sobs “My daughter raven, she attacked me! I had been resting from a longs day work and I woke up to my daughter, holding a knife in her hand. She then covered my mouth and raised the knife but I kicked her off. She began to swing the knife at me, cutting my arms and chest. You see.” Jenny held up her arms, showing all kinds of fresh cuts, all different lengths and depths on her skin.
“She then grabbed my purse and ran, yelling she would return to finish me.”
The officer nodded and replied “ok Miss Marcus, we will send a search warrant for her and have her arrested”
Raven couldn’t believe this; she now knew what she had to do. She walked to her grandfathers old shed in the back of the house. She opened it slowly and closed the door behind her. She looked and saw what she needed, the old axe that was a bit rusted, but could cut down a tree with ease. She toke it in her hands and ran her hand on the edge.
Night fall came and jenny was dragging ravens things to the burn pile. Raven saw all her child hood memories, being treated like trash just has she had. Jenny coved the top with gasoline and threw a lit match on the clothes, photos and toys. Raven was shaking, she felt something snapped in her brain and she held her axe tight. Jenny was smiling, watching it all burn. Raven ran at her, tacking her to the ground and sitting on her. Jenny looked up n shocked and was about to scream but raven smiled and grabbed her mother tongue. Jenny tried to bite down but raven was forced the jaw open. Raven then dug her nails into the meat, ripping and stretching it out. Raven then toke the axe and spun around. Jenny was starting to choke on her blood when she looked to see raven rising the axe. Raven chopped off jenny legs, it hadn't completely cut so raven ripped off what was left. Jenny gasped and blood she had been choking on, spat up all over her face.
Raven laughed a bit and said,”oh mom, don’t make a mess now.”
Raven cleaned her face, then pulled out a knife and pressed it to the side off jenny face.
“Oh mother, how I've always loved your face, I think ill take it!”
Raven began to cut a circle around jenny face, being slow now wanting to ruin the skin. Then she put her knife under the skin and lifted it up. She then put her fingers under the skin and slowly pulled. Once she has completely removed the skin she smiled and carefully laid it down and looked at jenny, who was seconds from death.
“Oh well, I got what I needed. Thank you mom, don’t worry ill take good care of your face, I’ll wear it and keep it safe. In fact ill get other faces! So yours won’t be lonely! Also so I can be someone different, maybe someone you won’t hate.” Raven said as she picked up a rock.
She raised it and dropped it down on her others head. It smashed like a melon, raven even liked her lips a bit to get the blood from then. She stood and looked at the fire. She threw the body in the fire, watching the skin peel away and bun. The meat popped and burst. Raven smiled but then saw out of the corner of her eye, a photo. She bent down and grabbed the picture, blowing at the burning edges. She blinked; it was a man she had never seen. She looked at it, dark hair, ruff in the face and green eyes. She remembered her mother telling her about a man like this… her father.
She gave a light smiled, then bent down to grab the axe and knife. She would need them to collect her faces, of course. She looked at the photo
“My my father, you have a lovely face”, Raven said as she walked into the darkened woods.