I was so excited. After many years of being home schooled I finally wore mother down and I would be getting what I have wanted for so long. The chance to go to a real school. I was finally going to be able to go to college. I've never had the chance to go to high school, and I missed out on all the school dances. My mother was horrified of me ever having a boyfriend.

I was told boys this day and age are dirty and disrespectful. That she would never allow her perfect little daughter to be defiled by one of those pigs. I was twenty-one and still lived with my mother. My mother didn't allow me to have much freedom sadly.

My phone activity was monitored at all times. My mother saw all my in-coming texts and calls not that I had that much. I don't have any friends because I've always been so secluded. The only friends I have are my books. My books keep me company when I feel lonely or want to escape to a magical land. They give me happiness. The only happiness I can seem to find. It's why I want to become a writer.

I will be going to a college nearby. It wasn't the college that I've dreamed of going to but one that was approved of by her mother and one that was close to home.

Today was my first day of school and I have two English classes this morning. I am beyond excited. As I got ready for school I looked into the mirror while brushing my short blue hair. I recently cut it as I want a new beginning. A new start on life. I wished I could put make up on but my mother would never allow me to do that.

While I was putting my notebooks into my bag my bedroom door burst open and my mother walked through the door. She didn't bother to knock because she didn't allow me any privacy. She has always said why would you need to hide anything from your own mother?

"Good morning mother." I said smiling at her.

"Good morning darling." She looked me over as she always did. She frowned as she looked at my hair. I knew this was coming. It was the one thing I did without her approval which annoyed her to no end.

"Is everything okay mother?" I asked innocently.

"Honestly I can't believe you chopped off your beautiful long locks of hair. You look…" She didn't finish her sentence. She always did that when she wanted to insult me but refuse to.

I looked back into my vanity mirror and smiled at myself, "I like it."

"Hmm…" She said now looking at my dress. I wasn't sure what her problem with that is since she wouldn't like me shop for myself. She always bought my clothes for me. She never let me pick out my own clothes.

"What's wrong with my dress?" I asked trying to keep my tone of voice sweet so she didn't detect any disrespectful tone and try to keep me from going to class.

"Don't you think it's a bit short darling?" She asked adjusting her glasses. She didn't need her glasses but she claimed they made her look dignified.

I sighed, "Mother you picked it out." The dress was just fine. It was a pretty pale pink color and it covered a little below my knees. She was just looking for a reason to keep me here.

"Yes well…I just worry darling. I don't want any of those collage boys to get any ideas."

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. "Mother everything will be fine."

"Persephone…"

"Levy. Remember we changed it so I could attend this school as a human." It was the one thing I really got to chose for myself. It was a name I would be keeping for myself. It was something that was actually my choice.

My mother sighed and rubbed her temple like she always did when she thought I was being too difficult. "Very well…Levy. Although I still think you should go by a prettier name."

I clenched my jaw tightly to keep from yelling at her. She wasn't happy if she didn't get to control everything and anything about my life.

"Mother I am going to be late if I don't leave."

She nodded, "Yes…then go on downstairs the driver is there to take you to school but afterwards you come straight back home. No detours. Understand young lady?" She said sternly.

"Mother I am not a child." I said annoyed.

"Of course, you are darling. You are my child and you always will be." She said giving me a tight hug. I hugged her back and nodded as I had no way of making her see my side of things. "I don't know what I would do without you. I love you more than anything."

It felt like she only ever said that was when she was afraid of losing me. Of me trying to grow up and leave her. To guilt me to stay with her forever. Don't I have a right to move on in life and create a life I want for myself?

"I love you more than anything too mother."

She let me go and smiled at me. Then she ran her hands through my hair as if she thought it was messy. "Have a good first day darling. Tonight, I'll take you out to dinner to celebrate your first day of school."

With that I quickly grabbed my bag and left my house. One day I would have to talk to her and make her see things my way. She would have to let me have some more freedom. I needed to have this talk with her soon.

Charles my driver was an older man with grey hair and kind eyes. He had his own family and I liked to talk to him about them. He wasn't my friend but we were on friendly terms. He had always been kind to me.

"Good morning miss." He said starting the car as I climbed into the back.

"Good morning, Charles." I said smiling at him. "How's the wife this morning." I asked.

"Cranky." He chuckled. "We watched the grand kids last night. Kept her up half the night."

I laughed, "Well once they go back to their parents' house, she will miss them again." I said as this was a regular thing that happened.

He sighed as he drove but I could still see the smile in his light blue eyes, "Yes she really loves having them over even when they are being little devils."

We chatted a little while on the way to school and he let me out informing me he would be picking me up at 3pm sharp. My mother would be very upset if I wasn't home at 3:30pm on the dot.

I walked into the school and smiled while looking around. The halls were long and had many doors along the way. I was a little nervous about finding the right door to my classroom. I wanted to leave earlier but my mother wouldn't hear of it. As I looked down at my schedule, I bumped into someone. I quickly looked up but no one was there. I blinked looking confused. How did I bump into air? I put my hand out to feel whatever it was I bumped into but I didn't feel anything there.

Was I going crazy? I shook my head and moved on. I walked down the hall until I found the class, I was supposed to be in. Not many people were sitting in the front. Most were in the middle of the class or the very back. I sat right up front so I could see and hear everything the professor had to say.

I saw a few girls sitting and laughing. Clearly, they were friends and I felt my heart squeeze a little bit painfully. I wanted a friend so badly. Maybe if I tried hard enough, I could make one. I could even keep this friend secret from my mother.

The professor walked into the class and soon he started to pass out some classic books he wanted us to read this semester.

I raised my hand.

The professor looked at me and sighed, "Yes little blue haired girl?"

Those girls I saw talking finally looked at me and laughed. My cheeks turned pink from embarrassment. Well, I probably wouldn't be making friends with them.

"Do you have any other books I should read. I've read all of these." I said looking down at the books he gave me.

The girls laughed harder and I because my hearing was better than any humans, I heard one girl say, "What a freak."

"Quiet down." He snapped at the girls, "Miss? What is your name."

"Levy." I said trying stop blushing.

"Well Levy, these are the books we will be reading this semester and if you have indeed read them even though I doubt you have. You will have no trouble passing this class. Now if you don't mind, I would like to begin this class."

"O-Okay…" I said. Somehow on my first day I had not only made myself look like some kind of loser but I also made became an annoyance to my teacher.

I sat back in my seat for the whole class not uttering another word. Perhaps if I had been allowed to attend school before this then I could have handled social situations better.

My next class I didn't speak or even correct the professor when she was wrong. I had to really bite my tongue. The whole day I kept to myself. Was this wrong for me?

I shook my head and sighed walked out to the parking lot looking for Charles car. I couldn't let my mother know just how bad my first day of school really went. She would never let me come back and worse she would tell me she told me so. I had to shake this bad day off before I got up. Little did I know it was about to get a whole lot worse.

I heard a loud motorcycle pull into the parking lot and I jumped back as he drove right by me and his bike came to screeching halt in front of me. The man on the bike was huge. He was very muscular and I couldn't see what he looked like as he was wearing a helmet."

"Get on." He barked at me in an angry tone.

My eyes widened in shock, "W-What?" I said startled.

He didn't tell me again. He reached out and pulled me onto his bike. I was sitting in the front and trapped between him and the front of the bike. I gasped.

"Hey no. Let me go!"

"Persephone daughter of Evergreen the only place you will be going is to the underworld."

With that he drove off with me.

Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed please review to tell me what you thought.