PROLOGUE
I wish there was a way to end all the pain, to never feel it again. To give up, to end it, in less than a second. It would be so much easier to end it all. I would be free from the pain and chaos. I could visit my family, the ones I care about. But I know I can’t, not with my little brother still here with me.
I wanted to die and end my life. So, I do not have to feel the pain. I have nobody left that cares about me. Why would they care about me? I am just a stubborn child to them. So, I do not have to see the man who caused me to feel the way I do.
You might want to know. I am Emma Johnson. I am 17 years old, and I have a little brother, his name is Chase. He is 6. He is all I have left, the only thing I care about. I am probably the only thing he cares about. But that’s okay as long as we have each other.
My brother and I are keeping a secret from the world that we cannot tell anybody. We tried. We did, but we ended up getting hurt, and the person we told, had been killed in front of us as a punishment. She was my art teacher, she tried to get the police involved, but he killed her before she could. Now, I don’t know what to do. I am trying to get out, so my brother can get out of this hell and live a normal life.
How do I put this; I never knew what I was expecting from my life? I wanted normalcy, a teenager that had a happy family and played board games and watched movies every night together. I would be lying if I said I didn’t have it because I did until they died and everything changed. He changed, and everything after changed. He made my life miserable for years. I’ve had to save my little brother so many times from him, and I would take the hits that were for him.
When everything changed, my life came crashing down in less than an hour. It was the worst night of my life. At least that’s what I thought. It got worse after that night, way worse. After that night, everything I believed in and everyone I trusted changed. That night, I lost the most valuable thing to me and the thing I loved the most, other than my little brother. I want everything the same as it was before. I want my life back.
Not only that, but I know I’ll never get my life back. That is why I want to start over. To end all the pain and go somewhere I can’t feel the pain anymore.
