Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were- I have not seen
As others saw- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring-
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow- I could not awaken
My heart and joy at the same tone-
All I lov'd- I lov'd alone
Then- in my childhood- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still-
From the torrent, or the fountain
From the red cliff of the mountain-
From the sun that round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold-
From the lightning of the sky
As it pass'd me flying by-
From the thunder, and the storm-
And the cloud that took the form
(when the rest of heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
Edgar Allen Poe
Prolouge
Alone
Jessica watched as her old house passed her by. She watched as her old friends waved bye. She couldn't understand why she had to move. 16 shouldn't she have a choice of where she wanted to live, shouldn't she have a choice of rather her mother remarried after her father passed away a year ago. One year, so long ago it seems. She didn't see how her mother could love such a man. She tried to tell her mother that she didn't want to move. She had lived in her home since she was born. She knew the little town that she was from like she knew the back of her hand. She knew all the short-cuts to and from school, to her friends houses, she even knew the shortest way to get to the tree house. She and all of her friends saved up their allowences for a year so they could build that tree house. They all pitched in. It was so sturdy, that they would still go and talk in it. "why do I have the feeling that I wont ever be able to see them again." she thought to her self. Jessica had trouble getting used to the fact of her mother dating a few months after her fathers fatial accident. She didn't understand why her mother was remarried, a year after it. Didn't she see the changes that it would make. In her life, and Jessica's. Does she expect Jessica to call Mike dad? Jessica didn't see what the whole thing about living in her old house reminded her mother of her father. Yea they lived there for over 20 years, but she didn't see the thing about leaving there would be for the better.