Nightmares

Isla is trapped. Trapped within her mind. Trapped within her body. Trapped within the room that she has been left in abandoned in by the very people who she thought loved her. She's trapped by her worst nightmares, her power.

Shadows. Shadows that kill a part of her every day she's stuck in her personal hellhole. Shadows that surround her everyday, no one to help her one to be there no one. They're her worst nightmare. Literally. The thing is, she creates them. She pulls them out of her mind out of the very darkest corner of her thoughts. But she can't control it. She's never been able to control it. Except to hide her horrifying power from all those around her who pulled flowers out of thin air who created life, not death.

And so she's been caged for the rest of her life to hold off her monsters until she dies, cursed to live in isolation and horror. Caged in a small small small small room to look each of her tormentors in the face, suffocated by their poison, burned by their caressing touch. Scars line her body, marks of her fractured past.

Until. Until something goes wrong goes right something happens and her life changes in an instant. Until one of her monsters comes alive. Until she falls in love with him. Until.

Alexander is the person Isla's always wanted. He's strong he's brave he's there he's nice he likes her for what she is he sees her. He's there to whisper "I love you" to her every time she gives up every time her monsters return.

But he's also one of them. He has looked her in the face and tortured her, burning her with his touch. And Isla doesn't know what's real anymore.

Isla's world is turned upside down, for good this time, and yet, she can't be remotely happy can't seem to kiss Alexander without flinching can't seem to stop looking over her shoulder at her past at those who betrayed her can't even smile can't stop thinking about giving up finally. 

And so, for the first time, Isla decides to do the opposite. She decides that she's going to fight back and escape the small small small small small cell she lives in and be free to do whatever she wants, with Alex.