It was funny when your fifteen most think the world revolves around them the girl in this story was no different and yet she was. The product of a failed marriage, She lived with her wealthy father, his new wife, and baby stepbrother. Yes lets not forget the baby, we must not ever forget the baby for he is the key to this story for with out him the girl would not be where she was now.
"He is yours now, silly don't toss him out" the girl told the sleeping baby that lay with in the crib as she tucked the bear under the blankets with him for the second time that evening before slipping quietly out the room shutting the door behind her. As the door from the level below opened she smiled running down the stairs launching herself at the man that stepped in giving a tight hug. "Daddy" she smiled up at him breathing in the scent of him wanting to remember everything about him incase she did some thing foolish again.
Robert Williams gave a perplexed look from his daughter to his wife what had happened since they had left to bring about this change? "Sarah darling not that I am not happy to see you but what is this about?" he had asked looking at her.
"Oh Daddy I missed you" she said looking up at him the smile still etched on her features "You would not believe the night I have had" she told him "But its okay we are back"
"Sarah let me take off my coat dear then you can explain what you are meaning because I am not sure I follow" he had told her gently shoving her away then shrugging out of his coat. Judging by his wife's equally confused expression she had not either. Once his coat was taken care of he followed his daughter to the living room sitting down his wife at his side. "Now Sarah what were you saying?"
Sarah brushed her hair out of her eyes taking a seat in front of them both while talking a calming breath a serious look on her face. "You both should know I am terribly sorry" she started looking at them both "Toby was crying you see so I told him a story about the goblin king who had fallen in love with a girl and given her certain powers" she paused for a moment "He would not stop crying so I did something terribly stupid and wished him away to the goblins imagine my surprise when he showed up to take him and take him he did-" but she cut off by the horrified expression on her step mothers face as she stood and ran up the stairs to the room where the baby slept.
"Sarah someone took Toby why did you not call the police!" her father bellowed already having the phone in hand and dialing as a cry came from upstairs "He is here Robert he is fine!" but that voice of her stepmother was not enough to stop what happened next as the cops descended upon them well mainly Sarah asking question after question at Robert's insistence that they come and make sure the house did not have a psycho in it.
"I told you everything is fine now I got Toby back!" Sarah cried out for the millionth time that night. Her head was in her hands and she was shaking "I ran the labyrinth I got him back yes he was gone for a while the Goblin king had him. But he is back Hoggle helped and Ludo and Didymus" Of course no had listened to her, they all just brushed off her story back then more so when they found the red leather book.
Sarah get your head out of the clouds it is all a story from a book none of it is real they had told her but she would not back down no it was real it did happen.
That was when her world crashed more and crumbled with her in the middle. She had seen doctor after doctor. Each asking for her story she told them in detail of course always the same story always sticking to her guns. But that did not help matters no it only made it worse they labeled her gave her medications that to her fathers dismay did not make the Goblin King's world go away from her mind no if any thing they made it worse.
Not even pulling her out of school seemed to work and giving her private tutors no they all quit. And finally when one did stay he had to fire her a few months into it after she had come to him. She had said that the fae realm had touched his daughter. At first he thought the woman was just humoring his silly daughter. That was until Sarah started to have these thrashing about stints where she would harm herself getting cuts all up her arms and legs. All the while yelling things like its falling its falling apart. The tutor came to him after that claiming that Sarah was having visions so he was forced to let the crazy woman go.
It was then the Williams family made the decision that Robert claimed to be the best for his daughter yet was the hardest on him and emitted her to a hospital for the mentally ill in the state of Phoenix. The hospital staff had experience with this sort of thing he knew his daughter would be in good hands even if she were that far from home.
Sarah he was told settled in well there she was given a room to herself and was doing better till the so-called visions and thrashing started again. Then they would find her bloody curled in a ball inside the room they had given her. The few times he and the rest of their small family flew out to see her she never said much just sat rocking back and forth insisting that it was a mistake her being there asking why could they not see it was real they where real. On many of those visits she asked for the characters from the book Get Hoggle here you'll see you will see I am right I do not be long here she would say.
Yet to her dismay they never listened no one did they just left her at the end of the visits to go back home while she screamed and cried that she wanted to be taken away from that awful place for someone to save her. The Next day would come of course and she would still be there sitting in a ball mumbling the name Jareth over and over "Jareth it is falling… falling apart"
