Ch. 2: The Cage

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[Flash Back]

Eldon wasn't the only one with unanswered questions

"Eldon, come I'm here a second,

Would you?" His mother, Phoebe said.

"Coming-"

"Eldon you stay right where you are! You here me?!" His father, Lucien, yelled.

"Lucien, I am his mother!" Phoebe yelled.

"I'm the boss of the house. The father!" Lucien yelled. Just as phoebe came running in the room, she left it just as fast.

[9 years later]

"Why'd you even buy a cage if we aren't getting a dog?" I ask.

"Eldon, shut it, would you?" My father said. "Now, how tall are you exactly?"

"Don't know." I said.

He groaned, and left the room.

The cage was like any other cage, grey with hard wires around it, a small door, and strange as ever.

My father came back with a meter stick. He ordered me to stand still, then he put the meter stick up to my chin, and mumbled something. Then he shoved my into the cage.

"Father?!"

"You're staying in here. Nobody's leaving anywhere. You can start calling this cage home" he said.

"No! No, please, father!" I begged.

But just like that, he was gone. And I was trapped inside the small cage. I don't know why he was doing this. I don't know if he knows that I'm chlostrafobic. I don't know anything anymore. From there, I knew I had to leave. Hogwarts, it was the perfect place to escape. I just have to pray that it wasn't a joke, that magic is real. That I can escape my father. Lucien. The man who faked being my father. And now I'm angry😡.

My father left the house that night. I took charge, and broke the lock. Today is Sunday. If I'm going to leave, nows the time, since tomorrow Morning is Monday.

I throw most of my clothes in a suit case. I jumped out the door, and there

I escaped. It was almost too easy.

I ran to the station. By now I am only two more block away. I check my watch. 2:07 am. The station doesn't close, though. I run the rest of the way, and find a park bench. Before I know it, I'm asleep.

The cage. The walls, they're closing in on me. I'm going to die...I'm dying. Maybe I'm already dead. I'm alive. Alive can only die. And I am dead.

I snap my head up. At first, I can't tell where I am. But then I remember. Train station. Everything is busy now. I check my watch. Ten am on the dot.

But I can't figure out the cage. It was too hard, but too easy to escape it. It was a set up. Lucien knew I'd escape

the cage. But not the house. He doesn't think I've left. He thinks I'm still there. But I'm not. I'm here. At the train station. And I cannot believe I had to nerve to sleep on a bench.

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