August 10, 2011

Dear Diary,

My name is Jamie Grey, and my life totally sucks. My dad is a retarded bastard that dumped my mum the moment she told him she was pregnant. Mum was completely devoted to dad, so when he left, she went psycho. She started drinking and doing illegal drugs and smoking to help her forget dad. I was her second child by ten minutes. Yeah. Dad got her pregnant with twins, and I was the second.

Anyways, I had to live five years with my mentally insane mum and evil twin. She was determined dad would come back and take us from mum. I wasn't. I decided dad was awful from the start and tried to help mum. But, being a drunk, she often beat me. She tried to beat Kalyssa too, but Kalyssa got out of it by lying about something, forcing the blame on me, and I would take her beating. And Kalyssa would be praised, though in drunkenness, for coming forward and telling mum.

When Kalyssa and I turned five, our father returned and dumped huge news on us. He told us that he was the Greek titan Aigaios, titan of sea storms. I thought he was lying, so he made it rain over me for a week. After that, mum and Kalyssa made my life completely and utterly miserable, saying I was an idiot for disrespecting my father.

When Kalyssa and I turned 6, Aigaios returned. He sat down with us and told us his intentions and that he needed our help. At first I was excited. An all-powerful titan wanting your help. What's not to be excited about? But the longer he stayed and talked with us, pouring out his plot, I realize what a complete menace he was. His plan involved the deaths of many humans and animals. I wouldn't stand for that much death and misery. That's when things took a turn for the worse for me. Aigaios took mum into the kitchen while Kalyssa scolded me, telling me to learn to hold my tongue. When they came out, mum's eyes were blazing with anger. She dragged me to a cupboard and locked me in for 3 days and 3 nights of no food or water. I was practically dead when she let me out. She and Kalyssa moved me to an empty room. No windows. No furniture. Only dust resided in the room. They locked me in, only ever unlocking the door to feed me or to beat me or let me go to school, considering mum would've been in deep trouble if I hadn't. They threatened me a lot. They said if I told anyone about them beating me, they'd hang me in the backyard. To avoid all of this, I bent their rules and brought a friend home every day after school.

Her name was Heidi. She was our neighbor and she was my age and she loved me. She treated me as though I were a young child in need of her motherly care. One day, she managed the truth out of me and yelled at my mum and sister. I was locked up for a week. I returned to school saying I had gotten sick. They had forbidden me from ever speaking to Heidi again, but I could tell she was always watching.

A few days ago, she came into the room with a set of handcuffs. She handcuffed me and threw me into the trunk of mum's car. I could feel the car moving somewhere. When we stopped, she dragged me out and took me to the top of a mountain. Naturally the first face I cower from was my father's. He stood beside another man whom Kalyssa addressed as though he were king of the world. She called him Kronos. I was too frightened to pay much attention to the conversation, but I soon found myself chained to a wall with Kalyssa and a second girl torturing me.

Heidi came and saved me just yesterday and she's taking me away. She said that I had a protector, a satyr, who was supposed to take me and Kalyssa somewhere, but Heidi told me she had shooed him off, promising to get me there. I saw this notebook sitting on display in a bookshop and Heidi got it for me. She told me we'll be there tomorrow.

Right now we're in a cheap hotel. I can't sleep. I can feel the bed bugs bustling around in my sheets. Heidi's already asleep, snoring away on the bed beside mine. I wonder where she's taking me… I wonder if Kalyssa will be able to find me there or if I'll ever see her face again… In fact, I wonder if I'll ever be able to sleep again after such a tormenting time on the mountain… I think Kalyssa called it Mount Orthys…

Heidi's awake… Something's wrong… I wonder wha