'Dear diary,
It's my birthday, I am turning 20 today. It's been ten years since I started this diary. I got on my tenth birthday from my nurse at the mental Institution. She told me short term memory lost was a side-effect of the medication I was supposed to take, but I haven't taking them in a week. I feel less sluggish and I feel stronger emotions now. I feel freer in a sense. In one month's time I am going to be married to Roderich Eldenstien. I have known him since I was 15, and he 16. He and his mother were at one of my mother parties. We had gotten along pretty well, so we were betrothed to be married. I found out later that was what the whole party was for. I like him very much but I am not sure I love him. Plus he doesn't know that I was in the mental hospitable, and I don't know if I should time him or not. What should I do…'
There was a soft knock on Elizaveta's door and her mother walks in the room. Elizaveta quickly closed her diary and locked in her desk drawer and stood.
"Darling, come down stairs you have a visitor." Her mother said.
"Yes ma'am, I will be down in a minute." She replied
After her mother left Elizaveta let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. She was always anxious around her mother always wondering if she would send her back to that place. She straightens her dress and hair. Willing herself, she step out of her room and walked down all the 22 stairs. She knows how many there are because she counts them to make sure she is still here. She feels as if she left Rosy's with more problems than when she went in.
"18, 19, 20, 21…" she reached the last step. "22."
She walks in to the living room to find her mother and Roderich sitting opposite of the coffee table. They both stood as she entered the room. Roderich was always very handsome. He had a sweet face but it had a seriousness tone to it, also something else that she could not place. She did like him very much, but somehow she knew he wasn't her one true love. She knew she had met her true love but could not remember who it was and stopped trying after a while.
"Look who came to see, dear." Her mother said to her.
Roderich bowed and Elizaveta gave him her hand. He kissed her hand and led her to stand next to her mother. They all sat Elizaveta next to her mother and Roderich on the chair on the other side of the table.
"Would all of you like some tea?" Her mother asked.
"That would be lovely Mrs. Héderváry." Roderich said with a smile.
Elizaveta's mother hurried of to the kitchen.
"Happy birthday, Liz." Roderich said with a smile.