Prologue
Darkness; that's a simple word to describe who I am. I can't control the darkness so I guess what you'd say is that the darkness controls me. I didn't choose this life…never would. I miss my family. My brothers and sisters…I miss them all. I can't see them. Can't even say their names or call them my family. Not while he was around anyways.
He is the one that took me from my home. I couldn't really say that it was him that I followed because in truth it was his smile that I followed. He was amazing…or so I'd thought he was. I was a foolish girl, small and foolish and now I was trapped here with this lunatic. That was eleven years ago…
Now in the present time I'm almost fourteen. Next week is my birthday, not that it means anything to anyone here. Here, I am alone. There is nothing for me here except bitter regret. I regret following that smile. I regret not being smart enough to not follow someone I didn't know. I regret being born all the time.
It's hard to live this captured and caged life. I never know when I'll eat or when I'll see him. Every time I do see him I get food. Most the other times I don't. They keep the food for themselves and I'm excluded as the one who should starve for not completing my chores and all. I'm going to find a way out of here one day. I know I will.