Chapter 1 – Death

It's almost dawn. The gentle light that is banishing away the darkness is a spectacular fusion of radiance and beauty. Well, that's what I used to think anyway, but now it's just ugly. I wish the night could stay forever so that I could be lost in the darkness instead of having to face the cruel light.

How could everything change so drastically in one moment? How can I change so much in one night? Easy. It doesn't take much. Only the death of my mother. I didn't even get to say goodbye.

I turn away from the ugly dawn and stare into the fireplace where only cold grey ashes remain. Ashes of the cheap bit of paper that changed my life. They couldn't even be bothered to use half decent paper on account of my mother.

If you had asked me just yesterday how I would react if my mother died, I would have said that I'd mourn her forever and the grief would never fade. But it's not yesterday anymore, my mother isn't alive anymore, and the grief has already faded. You think I'm a heartless monster don't you? Well I am now. If ever you hear tales of loved ones parted by death and how they cry for they rest of their lives, never getting over the grief, don't believe it. It's not what really happens when you lose someone you truly love, someone you'd willingly die a thousand times for, because they are your reason, your breath, your heartbeat. I died with my mother.

Now all I can feel is the lust for sweet revenge. It won't bring her back I know, her death hasn't made me brain dead, but it'll help ease my pain, my anger, my hate. So you'd better start making the most of your life now, little Prince, because you're doomed. You're at my mercy and I have none. Run as fast as you like, but I will catch you. Hide in the darkest shadows, but I will find you.

There's no escape.