chapter 1:
She was looking out of the little uncovered space between the wood nailed to her window, she was looking at the two kids playing together. She didn't know them she only knew that one of them was pale with white blond hair the same as hers and the other had brown hair. She couldn't see their faces and she couldn't recognize their features she wasn't supposed to look at them in fact she was prohibited from it. all that she knew is that she loved watching them playing, loved the fact that they both were so carefree so happy laughing and having fun like there were no mistakes in the world there is nothing wrong in life like there wasn't a six year old girl put prisoner in a room in her own most of the time only allowed company a couple of hours per day without knowing what fault did she do, she didn't know why is she not allowed to play with this boys, she didn't know what they are to her she sees them a lot of the time playing in this huge land of grass. Both of them were smiling and laughing. She didn't know them but she loved watching them.
"Oh no no, young miss Hermione bad. Young miss must not look of the window. Young miss must stay in her room" Minnie started saying and then she kept on rumbling "Minnie bad elf. Minnie must not let miss look at the window. Minnie must be punished."
"no Minnie no don't punish yourself, you are a good elf. I love you Minnie." Hermione told her sweet elf. The elf that raised her for the last couple of years in her life. The elf that is her only company for these last two years the only face she is allowed to see. "Minnie loves young miss. Minnie close the window. Young miss must not look again" the elf told her in a reprimanding tone. So she did the only thing she could do and she agreed. She agreed to keep living in her prison, she agreed to remove her only source of happiness, she agreed with Minnie to close the window of her dreams and hopes.
after nailing more wood to the window to close it permanently Minnie the turned to Hermione "young miss not like Minnie's food, young miss food the same."
"no Minnie, I love your food I am just not hungry. I am just going to shower and then go to bed."
" but young miss must eat." Minnie kept pushing "young miss get sick if not eating."
hermione looked at her feeling both awe and loathe at her. She was her keeper the one who is keeping her sane in all this loneliness and she was also her jailer for all she knew the one keeping her in this room in her own. "Don't worry Minnie. I am going to be okay."
"Minnie come to braid young miss hair after shower Minnie come." The elf looked at her determinedly. "Of course Minnie." Was her only answer.
After showering and letting Minnie braid her hair she went to bed knowing that she would wake up to loneliness again like she used to. She won't see the boys playing again or laughing. She is going to be on her own.
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The little 9 years old girl smiled looking at her accomplishment. She has been trying for a while to remove a little peace of wood from her window to look outside. Hoping against all odds that the little two boys still play outside. Finally she succeeded in her mission, she accomplished it. She looked out of her window seeing the green land. She looked right and left and everywhere no sign of the boys. She was starting to lose hope when she saw them coming from the building she was in pushing each other like they where fighting. But no they weren't fighting they were both laughing.
They are still their. Her hope is there. She cracked a smile for the first time in a long while. She looked at the clock and knew that Minnie would be coming any minute so she put the wood back and opened the book In front of her. When elf came she was looking at a girl engrossed in her book. She didn't know that the girl was in fact engrossed with the two boys. With the hope that her life could go back to normal someday. With the hope that she could be a normal girl.
She went to bed that night dreaming at being in the land with theses two boys and playing the games they do.
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She just turned 12 years old. It's her birthday and as always she is celebrating it in her own. With no cake no candle to blew, nobody with her, not even her boys. just her and her books.
Yes, she did just call them her boys. That is the only way she could think of them. She didn't know why they disappeared most of the year and then when it's time for them to come back it's only the blond boy the other one comes rarely and she rarely sees them but when she does she smiles. She is happy again. She is whole.
She's been in this room in her own for more than 7 years with nobody except her elf that comes to bring her food or clothes or books and leaves. Her only salvation has became her boys. When they aren't their she seeks her books hoping that she could find her salvation there. She is sick of this life and tired. She is thinking of quitting it like the heroine in her books. Everytime she try to end her life she thinks of her boys and that someday she is going to really meet them.
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and again she is celebrating her birthday on her own but this time it's her sixteenth birthday. She asked her elf for a cake. She told her that her only wish was to blow a candle on a birthday cake. She begged her. So the elf agreed. But she lied that wasn't her wish. She wanted the cake for the hope that if she blew the candle and made her one true wish it might come true.
She made her wish and blew the candle and prayed for god to accept her wish and make it come true. She promised herself that she would wait. She would keep being patient and wait. But what she didn't know is that she didn't need to wait because that was the day that was going to change her fate forever. Because for the first time in all her life she heard the click of the door. The door that is always kept closed. The door that she is not allowed to go near. The door to her freedom.