Poison

Prologue

First chapter!!!!! (well, prologue but who cares)

I woke up with the feeling as if there were 5 bricks on my chest. Oh right, I forgot. There were.

Now, I'm sure you're wondering how I got myself into this situation, but I have to explain some other things first. 

Let's start off with who I am exactly. I am 16 year old Alexandra Willow Drake and my father is the most wanted man in the world. I hate my name, so you can just call me Alex Smith, my mom's surname. Murdering people is not my dream profession (surprising, right?), but my father is adamant to make it be that way.

Ok, I may not be giving him some credit that doesn't relate to evil. My father can be nice. Well, sometimes. He treats me well; unless I don't do what he wants. He lets me be; unless he decides I must do something for him. On an afterthought, maybe he does not deserve that credit.

Joseph Drake is truly the most vile man I have ever met or heard of. (not as if he lets me out of the house, though) He savors killing and does anything to damage humanity. (that is a reason why I call him by his name, not 'dad' or 'daddy' or some other name he doesn't deserve) Sometimes he takes jobs from other, cruel, people, but most of the time he plots his own murders. The only person he ever truly loved was my mother, Rosaline Smith.

In contrast to Joseph's cruelty, my mother was the most wonderful person in the world. Just imagine the kindest person you know. Now triple their best traits. Add to that auburn hair, hazel eyes, and the largest smile you could ever see on anybody. Then, you might get close to her.

Joseph didn't use to be this horrible. That was back when Mom was still alive. You see, she kept him in check. Her only requirement for their marriage was that he would change his profession. That is common sense, but he almost snapped on her when she suggested it. Nevertheless, he accepts. They moved to a small town, he became a grocer, and then they had Nathan.

Nathan is my older brother, and is as far from me as possible. More on him later.

Afterwords, they had me. We were a  little family of four for some time, living the life. Everyone was happy. This peace lasted all the way until I was in 6th grade and Nathan was in 9th.

That was when Joseph started to ruin everything. 

He decided that he was sick of being good or, as he would say, 'boring'. Behind my mother's back, he starting plotting. Joseph never actually did anything officially, though, out of his love for Rosaline.

Everything snapped when Mom got diagnosed with cancer. He did everything in his abilities to try and save her. That's great and all, usually, but when it comes to Joseph, that means taking jobs.

What does that mean exactly? He would murder people just to get money for treatments. He didn't care how many lives were ruined or ended, as long as it wasn't his Rosa's. Everyone who wanted someone dead but didn't want to get caught went to my dearest (gag) father. 

He got a lot of money from this, sure, but my mother hated him for it. She refused the money he got for her, and, on the tragic day of September 19, she passed away.

Joseph went into a depressive state, he started murdering more people, and we moved to a small house in the middle of nowhere. That's where we are now, and have been for 5 years.

I'm a 'junior' now (not as if he would let me do anything other than homeschool), and Nathan would be out of school.

So, on to Nathan, my older brother. You understand Joseph's persona? Copy paste that and you have Nathan. They are pretty much the same, down to the very last tattoo. He has been helping Joseph since he was 16, and my father expects me to do the same.

I have technically been 16 for almost half a year, but I have been putting off helping Joseph. 

"Oh, um, I'm on my period so I can't help"

"Now that you are partially in, it'll be hard to catch me up"

"I would, but you only need two people and Nathan is already involved"

But, I can only make excuses for so long, and he now wants me to help with his biggest scheme yet.

Well, I think you are caught up now. Let's hope this serves as a record of what happened the week of February 9th.

a/n how did y'all like itttttt?? first chapterish. i forgot ab this story for like a year, but here i am again! Once more, this is my first story so don't judge, and im not experienced with writing at all. 

What do you think joseph's evil plot will be? comment

Welp, that's all for now.

Buh byeeee!

-eva <3

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