"If you could have anything in the world, what would it be?"
After saying that sentence to me, my mother left home and never came back. I'd wanted my beloved mother to live and stay with me, but fate took her from me. My father had already given up on life, so he lived a very slow and boring one. He paid the bills, but he didn't care what he had to do to do so. Whether it was to sell his body or deliver pizza, he never cared. He always looked at the wall as soon as he got home.
He rarely left the house, so I was always taking care of him. Until, Auntie came and made me call her Yuka, my mother's name. I always hated her, but she was too scary to impose. Of course, as soon as I entered Gakuen Alice, I applied for a dorm. Once they accepted it, I could leave. They did and I'm eternally thankful.
But I didn't intentionally become the way I am, blackmailing and manipulating. I just became that way over the years. I just did it to get people to obey me, so I could become the queen of my country. Believe it or not, but there was a world in ours. You just had to look closer at things. But, few mortals could see it.
The signs that we weren't the only thing on Earth. I could and I knew what they were called. The Hell Binders. They were the things to choose whether you'd die or not. It just depended on your actions. That's why I was attracted to Ruka and Natsume.
They were all around both of them. It sickened me, how special they were to the small, angelic demons. I protected them from being hurt because the Hell Binders willed me to. They promised me that if I did what they asked without complaints, I'd be the queen as soon as I was of age. I'd only have to wait another year, since I was 17.
I'd been bond by their spell and mark. The mark signified that you were theirs. The demonic angels couldn't touch you. The mark looked as if you'd been slaughtered and revived. It was a huge scar with black and blue bruises that lasted until you were driven insane. Though they'd always been nice to me, they were scary.
Mother knew when I became theirs. She stopped tucking me in at night and playing dress up. Then, just like that, she avoided me at all costs. She spent more hours at work and didn't eat dinner with me or dad. I was just a burden on her, was what the demons told me, that she didn't love me.
But that's in the past. I'm in high school and about to become queen of an invisible country.