We've Got Spirit!!

We're Coming For You

"We weren't supposed to kill anyone, but you!", the strange woman chuckled. Oh god! What's happening

"Wh-who a-are y-you", I tremble as I speak.

"Your worst enemies.", she says.

"You will pay for what your father did.", the man growled.

"N-no, p-pl-please no. HELP!!", I yelled

"Oh little Lilly. You're still a baby. Time for your never ending nap.", that was what she said, before pulling a knife out. I remembered screaming in pain and it went black.

"Lilly, sweetie wake up!", I heard a voice.

I can't Mom. Please help me. I can't get out of this. I can't live like this anymore.

***

"Lilly, what happened today?", Dr. Felicia asked.

"I had a bad dream. Only it wasn't a dream, it was...a memory."

"Lilliana. You have made incredible progress in the past three months. But you think you are in this alone.

"I want to move on, but I-I can't."

"Okay. Go to this place tomorrow. You'll see what it is."

"Okay, I'll go tomorrow morning."

***

St. Pete's Memorial

"Hello, I'm Lilliana Thompson."

"Oh right. Dr. Anders mentioned you. Come in."

"Hi, who are you?", a cheery young girl asked.

"I'm Lilly"

"Oh hi, Lilly. I'm Andrea. Do you want to join a few of my friends here?"

***

"Everybody, this is Lilly. Lilly, these are my friends: Lizzy, Jessie, Mia and Ami."

"Hi Lilly. It's nice to meet you."

"So Lilly what's your story?", Mia asked.

"It's ok, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to. We've all been through that stage, but talking helps.", Ami reassured me.

"No, no. I want to tell you. Ok, so I had a very peaceful life."

"Nice start.", Jessie snorts.

"Yeah. So one day my mom was on a date with a guy. I was having a movie night with my boyfriend, Nick. In the midst of it, someone broke into the house. There was a man and a woman. They were attacking us for no reason. They killed Nick and were cornering me to a wall. They had a grudge against my father, who passed recently. The stabbed me and I've been..."

"Oh sweetie you're not alone. Andrea 's family died in a bomb blast. My parents tried to kill me everyday. Jessie was kidnapped and beaten up everyday. Mia was drugged and left to drown in the sea. Ami was...raped."

"But we survived that. We were better. We strived to make ourselves better."

"Have you seen the Maybelline website. It's filled with stories, people like us have done better for themselves and helped others."

That day I smiled to myself for the first time in months. I began to change and wear clothes that I used to wear. I changed a lot. I went to the memorial everyday where we would meet and talk. I became more confident. I did read the Maybelline blog. I used their cosmetics before but I never felt this confidence, this POWER. I was inspired to change my life. I was motivated to move on. I was...reborn. It was a magical part of my life that helped me push myself to be the better person.

If I can change. You can too