Chapter One
Neena's been here a while now but her Lily still hasn't come back. Neena doesn't understand. Why did Lily have to go? Neena should have gone instead but Neena couldn't, Neena was trapped in the cage up high. Neena tried to escape. She did. But she was all tangled and trapped. Neena tried to shriek. She did. But no sound did come from Neena's mouth.
Neena doesn't like it here. Is dark and at night they come a'howling. Neena hears them shriek shriek shrieking like they did before. They creep up behind Neena they do- whisper whispering in her ears- engulfing poor Neena in nightmarish madness. Neena wishes Lily would come back soon. Lily made it all better. Lily always made it better.
The shadows are taunting Neena. They taunt her they do. They say they took Neena's Lily. Neena didn't want to believe that. But Neena had seen them with their long pointy pointy sticks that shined and glimmered in the light of the orb that glows and Neena knew they told no lie. Neena took them all. Neena did. Neena didn't mean to. But they hurt Neena. Not with the pointy sticks but with their pointy words.
Neena misses her Lily. Where did she go? Why won't she come back? Neena saw her face one last time in the bright bright light when the music played. Neena remembers her Lily. Everything seems clearer when Neena remembers her Lily- with her swish swishy dresses and bouncy bouncy curls. Neena wishes she was much like her Lily. Neena wishes she still had her Lily. Neena wishes that her Lily had never gone away.
The shadows are taunting Neena. They won't give Neena her Lily back. They laugh at Neena. Laughing, laughing, laughing. Neena doesn't like it.
Neena remembers it all. It is all so clear. Neena know it started here. In her 'home'. Neena would never call it home. Never. Neena wishes she had never been chosen. Neena wishes she had died there. Neena wishes she had died here. Here in 12. Neena doesn't like it. Neena never liked it.
Neena wonders where her Lily is. Neena wishes Lily was here. It would be home if Lily was here. Neena doesn't understand the grandeur of this empty empty shell they gave her. Neena wishes it had never happened. Neena misses her Lily.
Neena remembers. Neena remembers it like it all happened just a day ago. Neena wishes it hadn't. Neena can't change nothing though. Neena still wishes death had taken her when he took everyone else. Everything seems all so clear when Neena remembers. Neena survived. But she wishes she hadn't. Neena is terrified to remember. She knows she must forget. But forgetting haunts her. But so does remembering.
Neena will always remember. Neena doesn't like it.