chapter 1
I never thought it would end like this. I thought I could leave my old life and have my own freedom for once. I needed to get away and forget all of it. Forget all of the memories we made. But no. They always got away with it. I didn’t even think they could do it. But who are ‘they’? I can’t remember, but I’ll remember soon enough. I always do. I feel… Dismantled. Obliterated. Broken. Dead. I never thought they would leave me... like this.
I couldn’t hear anything for a while once I regained consciousness. My hands and face were numb. I could feel something wet dripping from my feet. The first breath that I took smelled of mint and blood. Blood? I tried to sit up, but a sharp pain came from the side of my arms. I quickly looked and saw three butterfly needles stuck into my skin, pumping small amounts of someone else’s blood, which I instantly realized was covered in dark bruises. I almost screamed in horror, but something stopped me. I tried talking again. Nothing would come out. Not even a whisper. I would have burst into tears if there weren’t a camera in the corner watching over me. I slowly sat up again to see where the blood smell was coming from. I started to wonder. Was the mystery liquid blood? I pulled the covers off of my legs to search for a bloody stain, but it wasn’t my legs that were bloody. It was all of me.
