"Virginia, are you sure about the marriage?" a cousin of her asked as she was looking down on the floor trying to entertain herself with the patters on it.
"I am actually scared, cousin Neilson. I thought that I was just helping him propose to a girl he likes," she answered with a hint of doubt in her voice. To be honest, she loved her cousin but the proposal was too sudden.
Days ago, the cousin she admired the most proposed to her. She instantly said yes as she was thinking that he was just helping him practice the lines for a girl. In the past years, she had been helping her dear cousin to court the girl he liked. With full determination, she even went as far as retrieving a lock of hair from the girl he admired. She really wanted to make him happy because he was always there for her. Who would have though that he was slowly falling in love with her?
"You're still too young and have a lot to learn," he explained in which she understood. Neilson's wife knelt down to her eye level and held her hands.
"Virginia, my dear, come with us. We will make sure that you will be properly educated. There are a lot of opportunities in the place we will be going," her stepsister told her softly. Virginia looked at the couple who were concerned of her well-being. She wanted to but then she remembered her him.
"But how about cousin?" she inquired knowing that if she come with them, she might not be able to see him again. She was having second thoughts about leaving because she knew that it would break his heart and she didn't want that to happen.
"I'm sure that he would understand that you are still too young. I will explain everything to him," Neilson stated with a comforting smile. With that, she agreed believing them.
The white ceiling looked very entertaining to her. She had been awake for an hour and she was just waiting for her alarm clock to ring.
RING! RING! RING!
She slowly stood up trying to remember what she dreamt of. As she walked to the bathroom, she wondered if the family that adopted her was okay. The family saved her life when she was still young. In order to have full custody over her, they replaced their dead daughter with her since the child's death wasn't registered yet. Though it was against their will, they had no other choice but to do it or the people from that town, where they found her, would kill her.
"It's dark and I want my mama," a young ravenette cried as the couple sat beside her.
"Hush now, little one. I am here," the woman whispered lovingly to her in order to comfort her. The couple had been trying to calm her down for an hour already. You see, she woke up in a dark room and couldn't see anything. She was very scared because of what happened before.
"But you're not my mama," she wailed and tried to struggle when the woman tried encasing her in an embrace. The man sadly looked at her and patted her head.
"It seems like she lost her sight, love," he sadly informed his wife. The wife looked at the child with tears in her eyes. She didn't want the child to suffer like this. She didn't want to believe believe her husband at first but now, she had to accept the fact that the child turned blind.
"After all, what she witnessed was too much for a child like her."
As she closes the door of her apartment, she snapped back to reality and headed for the Agency's office while thinking,
'It has already been two years now. Why am I having these flashbacks just now?'