Stained Through the Glass

Prolouge

When young Anige was just a mere six years old, she vividly remembers her father taking her eleven year old brother, Marcus, in a car and driving him somewhere, and not returning with Marcus.

Just eight days after turning 11 herself, Anige's mother brought Marcus home, acting as though he was just a friends house, sleeping over. Ever since her brother had disappeared, he was always in her mind. He seemed quieter since he returned, but whenever alone with Anige, he would tell her what he went through trying to get back. When he returned, he was 15, and Anige was suddenly very distant from her parents, afraid of what they did to Marcus, and afraid they would do the same to her.

Her parents made it seem like a very normal family. A bit of an overprotective mother, a father who read the paper every night, both working, though her mother worked only part time, they had a nice two parent-income. Angie used to be a 'Daddy's Girl' but as time grew on from Marcus dissapering, she became just like any other girl, loved her parents, but enjoyed going to friends more then being home all day. Her parents always acted liken nothing had happened when Marcus dissapered and returned. Noticing how her dad seemed a bit apprehensive around her mother since she brought Marcus back and how Marcus answered all her questions expect what happened in the car and why he was taken away, Anige starts having symptoms of anxiety while trying to solve the mystery of her puzzling family.

Now 16, her brother is 21 and goes to a college about 10 miles away, Angie is learning to live with the fact that her dad moved into the guesthouse and is getting used to her step-fathers' strange family. It seems like every other month there was an incident or a funeral is his family. Anige now owns 4 formal black dresses, has an anxiety attack about once a week, suffers from a form of depression where she is happy most of the time, but from time-to-time for about four to five days she gets so depressed she can hardly get out of bed and do anything other then cry.

Anige never truly understood what happened a decade ago to her family, but at age 14 gave up trying to figure it out when her brother started college that year and her parents filed for divorce.

But suddenely, she stars having visions of what she believes are paralized people. Besides the anxiety and the few depressed days, Anige considered herself fine, not mental. Anige is afraid that she is going crazy, or that the hallucinations are going to drive her straight to a mental ward.

She starts having more anxiety attacks, and the visions get clearer. Thinking that it has to do with her step-fathers always sick family, she spends two days in her brothers dorm, and the rest of the week in her backyards' guesthouse with her father. She hardly ever stayed there overnight, and her father was delighted. He slept on the couch, giving her the bedroom.

One day when he's at work, she discovers something extremely destrupring. Not knowing what to do, the visions gets worse.

No longer appearing just in her nightmares, Anige can be walking down the street and swear the lady that just spilled her coffee had the same dead, pale, staring straight ahead, deadpanned face as the ones in her nightmares.

She seeks help from an unlikely source, thinking that this is related to why her brother was taken away. Anige struggles to deal with her anxiety attacks, trying to save her mind and imagination from destroying herself, the mystery of her brother and finding out the shocking truth behind her family's past.

$ REMEMBER as your reading that until chapter six, the book will be in the past. So chapters 1-5 will be told from Anige's view on her childhood. Now, I didn't tell you this so you could skip to chapter six (please don't, you will be confused and there are big clues in the start of the book) I am telling you, so you don't think that the whole book is being told from some old lady telling you her past, a.k.a. I'm telling you the first five chapters take place in the past so you don't imagine this book to be written around a mold of The Notebook. /--/--/--/--/---/--/--- EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK COULD HAPPEN (IN MY OPINION) IN REAL LIFE, NOTHING LIKE WITCHES AND MAGIC POTIONS. Please read/vote, comment and I truly hope you enjoy reading about Anige, the amazing work-of-art, role model and superhero worthy girl, born from my imagination. $