A Tender Heart

Chapter 1

As I sat there on the edge of the bed, in the darkness of my room that I call a prison .I stare out the only small window that shows me a glimps of the night,

The moon is shining so bright as to say that I’ll be ok, for it has been the only companion in my darkest of times … My only friend…

I don’t complain much, well not at all really …because I know now one would listen.

I am just greatful that I am alive for if it wasn’t for my mother I wouldn’t be here.

I am a slave to my father, working for him every day of my life so I don’t have any thing,

No hopes and no dreams they have died with my mother; i can’t even remember the last time that I have been free just to do wat I wanted. For All know is this…., this sadness that has swollowed me, this endless pit of darkness

My father keeps me locked up at night in this small room, it’s almost like a seller but a bit smaller it’s got only a bed in it, “it’s not soft but also not as hard as the floor, so it will do ‘’

Your problibly wondering how I came to be a slave for my father, well it all started when my mother gave here life to save mine…..

FLASH BACK

… My father (Antony), mother (Kate) and I went for a walk near the forest one late afternoon; I was 5 years old then.We had our own secret place that we went to on our walk, its not to far into the forest no one knows about it just the three of us.It’s my most favorite place in the whole world; it’s got a big pond almost like a lake with trees serounding it, its really breath taking…

I was so eager to get to our secret place that I ran out infront of my mother and father by the time I got to the entrance of the forest I turned around to see how far my parents were behinde me … I gigeld by myself to see how far they actualy were, they looked like ants in the distance.

I looked at the forest and took a deep breath and slolwy enterd the dark and thick forest

When I got to our secret place I looked up to the sky relieved that its not as dark as the forest was then I noticed the moon.

I lost myself staring at it, it’s so big, round and bright, I loved the full moon it gives everything a different look.

I don’t know how long I have been staring at it till I got starteld by twigs braking and then a bush shaking I started looking around…panicking … wondering where my parents were, the noise got louder and even closer,my heart starts beating in my chest till a point where i thought its going to jump out of my chest …. I heard my name from behind me

“ALYSSA”…..,

I twirled around on my heels. His face was dark, coverd by the shadows of the trees.I gasp for air and closed my eyes, scared of what this stranger would do, but nothing happened. I slowly opend my eye to see what is happening, to see the dark figure and to my surprise his gone, I took a deep breath and let it out while I was looking where this figure went …Sudenly I froze, somethig is behinde me I can feel the breath in my neck ….he spoke again. This time in a frustrated voice “Get out of here”. Scared out of my wits I started to run in any direction I could, just to get away. I heard my name again but this time it was my parents

“ALYSSA”… “ALYSSA” …

“MOMMY” …”DADDY”… I am over here!!!!!

All of a sudden there is a big cemotion somewhere in the distance ,I started running towords it as I got closer I could here my parents ,my mom is screaming and I ran as fast as my legs could carry me towords here “MOMMY”…, I shouted out on the top of my lungs .

I tript over some of the tree roots and had scratch marks all over my little body when I finely got to a clearing, tears started forming in my eyers and falling like a waterfall over my cheeks…. As my mother’s lifeless body lays there in the shadows of the dark forest …

A hand grabed me from behind, it was my dad “Here you are you BRAT, Look what you have done, and it’s all because of you that she is dead”!!!

“I didn’t want you to begin with ,but she insisted … everything was fine untill … untill …”

END OF FALSH BACK

“I shouldn’t have run off like that”

Tears start forming as I stare at the bright moon and drifted off into a deep sleep after a few hours.