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29th March

Anna's POV

I sighed, my sneakers scuffing the pavement. My breath sounded distant as it was carried away by the strong winds whipping around. Absently, I brushed my hair away from my face and tucked it behind my ear.

Again, my mind wandered towards my family situation. I sighed and mulled it over. Dad was always screaming at Mother for no reason at all. My sister had taken to crying in her room. I heard her every night amidst all the shouts from downstairs. Mum had already given up. She was only skin and bones now.

The fights were becoming more frequent. Mum could only get hit. She had no more energy to fight back. She tried to hide it from us but we knew what she was going through. What all of us were going through. This was why I took to roaming the poorer streets of Bayville, to convince myself I was lucky to have at least a roof to sleep under and ample food to eat. It was a desperate act, but the only resort I had left.

And yet, this particular day, I felt even worse. I stared into any wizened, cracked face I saw, telling myself I was lucky, that I was blessed. But now I felt even worse. I felt that I was lying to myself. Usually I didn't.

"Miss, help me miss…" a trembling voice spoke from the shadows. I turned around to see a woman with cracked lips reaching out a trembling hand towards me. Her child was beside her, sleeping. With a pang of pity, I saw that her child had bags under his eyes. They were the poorest of the poor. I dug around in my purse and dropped what little coins I had left into her cup which she handed out to me.

"You're an angel, Miss! God bless you!" the woman called after me. I smiled and nodded.

Winds whipped my face as I glared at the pavement, feeling bad and angry at the same time. The winds were so not helping.

Why is it so windy these days, anyway? I wondered. Shaking my head, my mind returned back to my family.

We came here to have a clean slate, Dad said. He told us, ordered us even, to drop our lives and follow him here. Just because he was sent here by the minister…

Why is nothing helping? Nothing's improving. Why are we even here? Why is everything growing even worse?

I'd tried to start a new life at Bayville High. I'd tried to pass off as a new student, one that should be ignored. On the whole, I should have been ignored. Thanks to the foreign diplomats from other countries, I had picked up many languages, English being my strong point. Unfortunately, the principal had looked at my diploma and announced my achievements to the whole school.

I sighed. I'd tried to fit in, succeeding. I'd met plenty of friends, but not one as nice as Kitty Pryde. She'd befriended me so quickly I'd wondered if she'd predicted my coming.

I smiled bitterly. Kitty won't understand my predicament. Nobody will. Everyone thinks I'm so perfect; I'm so smart…What a great human being. She should follow her father, oh yes definitely. She should be a diplomat, going all over the world…meeting new people, making world peace…

"And look where it got my father," I grumbled under my breath. The wind was growing stronger by the minute.

Everyone wants to be me, to be in my shoes. When they meet my father, they won't want to be me anymore. They'll never know how badly torn apart my life is.

Without meaning to, I found myself in a secluded part of Bayville Park. One thing I liked about this park was that it was a place where you could do anything you wanted. I sat on the cliff overlooking the sea and lay down, feeling the winds sweep over me.

I suddenly heard a sound I did not like at all. It was the sound of the sea gathering itself up, except that it was much nearer this time.

First, imagine yourself lying down peacefully and then awaking to the fact that a huge tidal wave was hovering over you, ready to sweep you away. Got that firmly in your mind's eye?

That's what I felt when I opened my eyes. I gaped in horror as it hung there lazily, waiting for…for…waiting for something!

I should have taken off and not stopped running. Instead, I was numb to the core. So I did the only thing I could do then…

I screamed.

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