Seriously, my life is like Finding Nemo. I could spend all day showing you the parallels.
Every day children are kidnapped; people are shoved into slavery and exploitation. People are killed—and the killer can be anyone from a scary serial killer to a seven-year-old little girl.
And no matter what happens, you just keep swimming. Even if you're the fish with the gimpy—ahem... "lucky" fin. Even if you don't have any idea where you're going to end up except a vague address you recite by rote.
And sometimes you're the one who gets away from the angler fish or the shark. And other times, you're left dead underneath the net or flushed down the drain. One problem: not all drains lead to the ocean, kid.
And yours, whether by fate or design, will most certainly not go there.
And sometimes, you're lucky enough to be devoured by a barracuda before you're even born, so you can't start this rollercoaster that your life has become.
But most fish aren't devoured by that barracuda. And the ones left behind are imperfect.
You are imperfect. You know your emotions are being put on a tilt-a-whirl, and you are powerless to take them off of it. Your life is not even yours anymore; it belongs to the creepy one-eyed tilt-a-whirl operator. He has taken it as your emotions' ticket to ride.
A lifetime ticket.
And even if you somehow manage to get off, even if you manage to escape from the fish tank that confines you, you still won't be able to break the tough plastic bag that separates you from the rest of the world. And your life will still not be in your hands.
And you'll go crazy on the inside.
Fish aren't meant to be in a box.
It does things to 'em.
A/N: So... this is something new I'm trying out. Right now, you're just gonna get this little "teaser," so to speak, something you can get a little feel for the character from. I won't be posting new chapters to this right away for a couple of reasons... one, I'm in college now, and things are a whole lot busier; two, I still need to get a feel for how to write 30-40% of the main character of the story; and three, I'd like to get a little bit more (hopefully five chapters) of Never Come Back posted. So until then, this is what you got. (The story itself really has nothing to do with Finding Nemo, by the way.) What do you think?