Freedom's Maze: Maze Of Secrets

Prologue - Part 2 (Remembrance)

Abby had drifted off. Her eyelids closed, her body cradled inside itself,  as she felt paradise for the first time. She felt free of the worry that plagued her. Light without the weight of the world that usually rode her shoulders.

A sweet pleasure of peace with an ignored undertone of danger that lingered on the very tip of her subconscious. But she looked past the danger, and she slept. Only for tonight. Tonight she wouldn't be scared. Tonight she would fearlessly run into the darkness in pure bliss and finally get a taste of freedom.

She sighed. It had been so long since she last slept like this. Without one eye opened. Without watching, making sure she was never left vulnerable and opened to the dangers of the world, of the people inside this prison. It had been so long since she’d dreamed, since she last visited her garden and tended to the fields.

My garden, how i’ve missed it.  She jumped for joy and ran for the fields, watching each step as she  went. The grass was  amazing against her toes. Though perfectly trimmed, the soft blades never cut her skin nor did it bring on that irritating itch.

The field was so green and alive that one would worry about the weight they put on each stem.  But the landscape was strong and begged to be rolled in. So she dropped, mid run, and layed on her back to bask in the suns heat. It was never too hot, the sun was never too radiant or too bright. Everything in her garden was just right.

Perfect.

She closed her eyes  as she fell deep into the green blossoms underneath her and found a peace she had never experienced before. Such peace and freedom was never meant for her. Such glorious tranquility was reserved for better people, special people. Abby knew she was nowhere near special but in that moment, with the sun hitting her skin just right and the grass massaging her where she laid, she could almost believe that she could be special, here, in her special place.

 In my special garden. She’d thought just as a burning drop of water splashed on the tip of her nose.

“Ouch!” Her eyes snapped open  and for the first time ever she saw angry clouds hover above her. She watched them as if it was a UFO trying to abduct her.

“But it never rains in my gar-” Before the word could slip from her lips a wave of acid water fell from the clouds and hit her sun baked body, burning her flesh and drowning her all at once.    Violently, she sprang from her sleep and slammed directly into the pot her mother was holding above her.  Her head snapped back and her body twitched and stretched to get away from the burning water  that now soaked her skin. The water  felt like  the bursting lava  flowing  out of a volcano. There were needles in every cell and she couldn't help but scream out. Then she was falling from her bed and slamming into the hardwood floor with a brutal thump.

She poured boiling water on me. The realization came just as her mother’s foot  came ramming into her rib cage.

“Why are you here?!”

She couldn't answer, she was too busy coughing up a lung. Her mother didn't care though, she took it as being ignored, disrespected.  And if it was one thing Rachel Barnes  could have hated  more than Abby herself it was being ignored and disrespected.  So it wasn't long until her foot came back down to give her stomach another teeth shattering kick.

“I KNOW YOU HEARD ME !! What the hell are you doing here Abigail !? You know how I hate seeing your face in the morning!”

“I'm sorry” Abigail blurted out because she didn't think  her lungs could survive another assault.