Prologue
"Annie, come turn my light off," Annie's mother, Shan, yelled from her room across the house, but no one answered her call. After a minute or two, Shan tried calling her daughter again with the same results. Getting even more enraged by the millisecond, Shan snatched up her phone and dialed her daughter's number -- no answer. Shan got up from her bed and walked across the house to her daugter's room, turning her light off herself while passing through the elegant white archway which was her door.
"Annie Dazi Sophia, what have I told you about closing your door!" Shan said, exasperated, as she opened Annie's door to peak into the pale pink room. A gruesome sight met Shan's eyes as she fell to her knees, her throat clenching and tightening, tears instantly gushing from her eyes--that were a minute ago filled with anger, but now filled with grief--and splashing against her cheeks. A chair kicked over, a letter on her daughter's neatly made up bed, her daughter hanging from a noose with dried tear streaks caressing her once flush cheeks that were now paled with death.
Shan quickly got up from her knees, trying to get to her daughter, to save her daughter, but it was too late. Unfastening the noose, she looked down on her daughter's limp body, her sight blurred by her tears. "Oh, Annie, why would you do this?" Shan whispered as she shut her daughter's glazed eyes, carrying her over to Annie's bed.
Annie's soul hovered over her grief-stricken mother, a sickened expression on her face. What kind of sick joke is this, Mom, you never cared! Why start caring when I'm dead? Stop faking! Annie angrily yelled at her mother, but her mom couldnt hear her, tears still fell from her mother's eyes but a smile started to spread across Annie's face. That's what you get for working me like a dog, how are you going to explain this to Daddy? He's going to hate you like you hated me! You'll recieve no empathy from him or anyone else! Laughter reached Annie's eyes as she left the scene, not even staying to see if her ignorant mother would read the note, she was heading to Nathan's house to see the love of her short life.
