Demon of my Demons

Prologue

If your life is filled with surprises, fear, and adventure. No one expects what's going to happen next in their life. Sometimes you just want to hide or run away from the unknown. Hiding from things that doesn't make sense, but sometimes you can't just hide. If you hide then what would you get out of life? Fear? Cowardice? No. That's unacceptable. You will just be sitting and waiting until life takes you, and to be honest that's pretty boring. I should know, I've done it. I regretted it. My life has been planned out the moment I was born, and I didn't do anything about it. I hid what I truly felt about the whole thing. What could plan me though? Learning, doing chores, growing up, getting married and having children is what we have been doing for generations.

In my small village of Triple Creak, everyone knows everyone. There's one flaw though. If you don't get married when you turn fifteen, then your considered the weirdo, the loser or the disgrace of the family. I pretend to be the happy daughter my parents want me to be, but sometimes it's hard. They make it hard as they want me to grow up obedient, and learn to be a good house wife. I don't want that. I don't want to get married, it isn't what I wanted.

The truth, I want adventure. I want to be able to go out and explore. I want to experience new things, see the world that nobody discovered yet. The problem? In my world, you don't get dreams like that. In this world, girls like me don't get what they want. It's one of the reasons while being poor is never anyone's priority. Of course, I became to adapt the fact I'm poor and there's nothing I can do to change that. My life is like a routine as all I do is wash dishes, set the table, and feed the chickens. I collect the greens daily, and sometimes collect the eggs from the chicken coops. I started to learn how to sew clothing, and I'm still learning but getting the handg of it. On occasions, mother would teach me how to cook considering I'm getting to that age. I don't mind cooking, and technically I've come in turns with my life that I don't mind the chores. It's just I don't want to get married, and I want more out of life.

Now all of this and your probably confused, as to why I'm explaining all of this. So, why don't I start from the beginning? When everything started, and how it changed my life. I remember it well you see, even though it still haunts to this day. It's one of the few days that I promise you that I will never forget. I mean, how could you forget about the day you literally lost everything?