The Dove's Black Cage

by Azami Devours

'He's a freak. A monster. Throw him out. Stay away from him. Kill him.' Filthy words directed at someone through a clouded lens rather than from my eyes. Or the way he was to be treated. No. He was unique. Beautiful. Pure. He was someone worth getting to know. What was that saying? 'Don't judge a book by its cover.' I didn't. I read his chapters. And I began craving for more.

1. Prologue

The Dove's Black Cage (PROLOGUE)

Life.

Life can be such a huge arse.

It'll laugh at you when you trip and fall.

It can be brutal, a huge major pain in the arse!

Don't judge me! Arse sounds wonderful.

However, no matter how hard you try ever so desperately, nothing will impress it.

But after getting bored of toying around with you, it'll simply shrug without a care and look away.

In search of a new victim to torture and laugh at.

And when it does, you can't help but take that chance to try even harder.

To try hard and make a change within yourself.

Within those few moments, you've finally accomplished your goal!

So when Life decides that its had enough fun with its victim, it looks back at you just to be surprised after seeing that you've changed so much.

And upon closer inspectation, it notices that it can no longer toy with you.

That is, until you end up slipping up.

Until then, Life leaves you alone.

Life moves on.

That is how life decided to test me. And I can't say that it was wonderful and generous towards me because I was a freak. No. Life also tested and pushed me to my limits to see how far I would go. I guess I disappointed it. I had backup. I wasn't alone. I had them. Friends and family. Especially those two. Him and Her. They were support. My crutches. My legs. Whatever you want to say. But that's what those two were.

My support.