Clara stood still looking at the body In front of her,her hands are a bit shaky but at least it's worth it,Clara had witnessed how Vincent Aunt had dragged him out of the car that night,and not thinking twice if the person is his mom or not,Clara decides to take her life so she will never have to disturb Vincent again.
After taking Aunt Amy's life,Clara trembles out of fear,picks up a bicycle which she had used to follow them secretly and heads back home. No one ever notices when Clara leaves the house,in her household,there are a total of twelve children,all from her parents, including her parents making it fourteen people in her family.
Clara is the number eight,and the first girl to enter into the family which is another reason why no one notices her movement. She does whatever she wants, whether she does the house chores or not,Clara is always treated right. In front of the house, instead of knocking on the gate like a normal person,Clara jumps into the house through the fence because she knows they will ask where she's coming from in the middle of the night. Unlike the Voss's,Clara is very poor compared to them,her father works at different construction sites and other petty jobs to feed his family while her mother sells one or two things in the house as a stay at home mom,the house they live in isn't rented because it belonged to her late grandfather which made things not so difficult for them.
After making it inside the house,Clara carefully removes the clothes she's wearing,takes a clean bath and hides the clothes she wore. Early in the morning,she had woken up again, earlier than some of her siblings,picked up the clothes she had hidden because they were stained in blood,put it in one corner in front of the house and burned it right there, erasing the evidence of the terrible thing she had done. Clara didn't feel bad about it a bit, instead she was very happy about what she had done believing it's the best thing she can do for Vincent,afterall She can't just stand there and watch him being harrassed.
Clara and Vincent only met once one on one and still,Clara is still overly obsessed with him. Clara has been stalking Vincent for a year hoping that one day she will reveal herself to him once it's time to show up in his life.
Clara was only nine the first time she met Vincent. On that faithful day,Clara had chased down his small ball for him,and as she handed it back to him, Vincent smiled at her and thanked her for her kindness. It was at this moment Clara lost it,his smile captivated her and at such a young age,Clara knew he's the one for her and no matter what happens she will do anything just to have this handsome soul into her life. Clara asked what his name is which he answered correctly, literally just being nice because she had picked up his ball for him,and then it hit Clara,how will she ever have him to herself if they both come from different world,the Voss's are very famous,wealthy and powerful unlike her family, Clara's family are poor, less privileged and only famous in their neighbourhood because of how poor they are compared to everyone living among them.
Right there at that moment,Clara starts plotting, how will she make it to the top?how will she impress him?and the right way?...stalk him.
Clara smiled, feeling smart about what she's planning,vowing to stalk him till she gets to know everything about him,makes sure he's treated right,and above all,no girl goes close or makes him uncomfortable.
On that very day,they met,Clara stalking began and the first thing she did was follow them secretly with her bicycle behind them until they got to the house,Clara smiled, plotting about so many things in her head again,this time the goal is to make sure she enters is mansion one day to see what inside looks like. "Where were you last night?" One of her older siblings asks her,Clara could only look at him surprisedly because she didn't expect anyone to notice her disappearance. He has woken up in the middle of the night to use the restroom,counts all of them before finally going back to lie down on his mattress,he opens his eyes slowly as he realizes something,there are only eleven people in the room including him instead of twelve, someone is missing.
He stood up again and started counting everyone in the room according to their age,and then he got to the eighth born,Clara. He knew at once that she's the one missing,he almost felt disappointed because he could have just guessed right away since she's the first girl in the family.
"Why don't you mind your business?" Clara snapped at her brother,he tried hitting her but her mom defended her, saying she did nothing wrong. Clara is in fact not the only first girl in the family but the only girl as well,they would have been thirteen but the last born died not long after,leaving Clara as the only girl again,as over pampered as Clara is,she will often lie to her parents about everything the others had done and what they did not do,let them wash her clothes and dishes,run errands for her and even to the point of teaching them how to make money for her.
Whenever any one of them doesn't comply to her needs or bring home enough money for her,she would often punish them and they will blindly accept her punishment because they don't want her to report them to their parents, that's the worst punishment yet because that means they will do all the house chores,get flogged or given no food,so rather than all this,they accept her punishment instead.
Because she doesn't want to pressure her parents and because she understands their struggle, instead of asking them for money because she wants to go to college,the first in her parents family as well,she starts using her brothers to get more money, exploits money from them,and saves them in a place no one will ever find it,after saving for a year,Clara starts to buy body lotion and other skincare products,shoes and bags,seeing how smooth and beautiful she now looks,she starts auditioning to be a model and eventually succeeded. During the day,Clara would be a model and doing the night,a photographer capturing every movement of Vincent across his room,when it was finally time for him to go to college,Clara decides to get into that same school,yet they never met and again….she stalks him,this continued for years until they graduated.