Prologue

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I stood on the balcony, staring at the blood-splattered walls and the broken bodies of my family, and then smiled. After years of torture, abuse, and rape, I was finally free. I turned to drag the murder weapon with me to my room. A sledgehammer. The fire spread through the halls, starting from where my father dropped his little cigar as he and my brother tried to run. They didn't know that I had dosed the place with odorless gasoline during my usual chores. Everything from the floors to the tables, and I made sure the windows were closed. I lay on my bed as the fire reached my room. The flames surrounded me, but the years of being beaten until I was numb didn't make me feel the heat or the pain. I held the bloody equipment as my eyes closed, and I awaited death.

As I lay there, my mind went back to the only good memories I had, and that was when I found comfort in the TV series The Vampire Diaries. I watched all seasons so many times that I could recite everyone's lines. The show taught me to be brave and keep fighting even when the odds were against me. And I did for eight years until I encountered an incurable disease, and I refused to be bested and taken out by a disease. So I planned to take my life myself, and I wasn't going to let my family have a peaceful life after I was gone, so I planned to take them with me to hell. I made sure they died before I did, and I enjoyed it. A peaceful smile took over my face as I drew my last breath.

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