Iv'e always wanted a mom and dad. But since i scared all of the adults away I don't hink anyone's going to adopt me. My name was never picked out so they just call me Christa. I don't have a middle or last name. Because again...Iv'e never been adopted. All my life Iv'e been followed by shadows. And whenever I mention them to anyone they get scared of me and never talk to me again. The shadows can talk and they listen to what I ask them to do. So Iv'e never had a problem with them. Sometimes when someone decides to pick on me they hurt them...One girl before she was adopted decided to brag about her parents coming and taking her home the shadows got upset and pulled her out of the room by her stupid long hair. I think it's my apperance that scares people...I'm 14 and kinda short. My skin is really pale. My eyes scare people because instead or colored iris their Silver and kinda glow. Then the part that for most people is striped black and blue for me. I have a scarf wrapped around my mouth full of sharp teeth(Sharper than most.) ao that i dont freak more people out. I wear my dress and high socks with a pair of wedge shoes. Stuff that a teenager would usually wear...I think...I'm trying to fit in so people would at least try to talk to me but, Despite my attempts...No one even bothered with me. One day two stiff looking people walked in wanting a child. They were intrigued by my appearance they said i would be "Alien" In their household but still wanted to adopt me. A few weeks after their first visit the nuns released me to them. And I finally had a family. Packing all of my stuff I walked outside the two walking stiffly in front of me. Neither of them had cracked a single smile. I loaded my stuff in th trunk of their black car and slipped into the back seat. We drove in complete silence until the voice of my new mother rang out loudly in the cabin of the car. "Rayna."I hesitated for a moment before mustering up the courage to speak. "W-What?" She sighed in annoyance and twisted her stiff neck to peer back at me. "Your new name is Rayna. Christa is far too inapropriate." I was kinda upset because I liked the name I had been given but I nodded my head and mumbled an "ok" Before watching her turn her head back to face foward. After driving in silence we finally pull into a long driveway leading to a huge house. Its almost impossible to take all of it in at once it was surroundes with hedges speckled with bright red roses. I thought I saw a tall man wearing a suit but a strand of hair fell in fron t of my eye and when i pushed it away he had gone. i brushed it off excited to ess what room I get in this giant house.They parked and efore slamming the door in my face said I could have any room I wanted except theirs and the basement. The left me to look around for myself. I walked around to the back of the house where the main garden was the roses in the backyard werent like the beautiful almost florescent ones in the front yard theseo nes were black. But they looked like flowers going into full bloom. They looked dead yet they were still beautiful. Only proving that death is a beautiful thing. I picked it up and walked back inside after grabbing my bags I chose a room on the third floor with a huge queen sized bed and A walk in bath. It's amazing. Theirs a row of small bells over my doorway one of them with the label dinner rang. So I went downstairs to eat with my new family but when I got down there there was noone but me and a skittish maid holding a large platter. She walked over and set the platter onto the table a small smile on her face. Our eyes met and she gasped. Lowering my head I mutted an "I'm sorry." The shadows stirred angrily at my side. "No dear its my fault. I'm sorry. Ive never met anyone with eyes like that. Their very beautiful. I'm sorry for staring Miss." O-Oh...It's alright...Do you know your talking to me? She gave off a little laugh "why of course miss."...Okay...were you paid you talk to me? " N-No miss I apologize. The maid gave a small little bow before skittering off into the kitchen. T-That's..Not what I meant....The maid had already left. Lifting the lid on the platter I let the shadows devour my dinner. I went back outside to look around a little more. Going back around to the Garden I spot The man again this time I'm sure it's a man. The roses petals broke off in the wind temporarily blinding me. By the time the petals had passed...He was gone. Again. Strange enough as he was he wasnt the worst of my worries right now actually the thing that botheres me the most is that since i got here I haven't seen my new parents at all. They told me that I could have any room. That's it? No "Welcome home Rayna?" I don't understand why they changed my name anyway. I liked christa...Oh well looks like I'll have to live with it. It's better than the orphanage. It'll always be better. At least here I have the maid....For a few weeks everything was going great...But them At night my Dad came into the room with a large needle. He put a rag over my mouth and injected something into my arm. I slipped into unconciousness. I woke up strapped to a bed in a cold room with no blanket. My scarf and dress were hanging on a rack nearby. I was wearing a worn-out bloodstained Hospital gown. Peering under I noticed A long fresh incision scar starting from my belybutton up to the bottom of my ribs. And my skin was even paler than before. My instant reaction was panic. I wrenched against the restraints as a mellow pounding began to beat against the inside of my skull. The maid walks in shivering and glancing around as if afraid to be seen. "M-Miss...I'm going to help you...The way they do this is so wrong...." She reaches over and I recoil on instinct. She flinches back but still works at freeing my Arms. The door swings opened and My mother and father walk in with their usual stiff expression. "Lilith. What are you doing." The maid stands straight up her eyes wide and breath hitched. "I-It's wrong...The way you treat these kids...I cant just stand by and watch it happen...It's so painful..."The two's faces twisted their skin turned grey their eyes sunk and turned an empty black color. A black liquid poured from their faces as thousands of voices fill my head. The Maid grasps her head in her hands and falls onto her knees crying out before falling on the floor her limbs and spine curling in unhuman ways as the same black liquid pours from her mouth, Nose, Ears, And eyes. In a panic I violently thrash against the restraints on of my arms getting free. I point out towards the two in the doorway and command my shadows after them only to be engulfed by them. The shadows writhe and twist around my arm, my blood staining the bedsheets and my gown. I scream out in pain as a few bits of skin was wrenched from my arms and legs. Small strips dagled feebly off of my glistening white bones as the shadows I became so familar with fed off of me ripping and tearing skin away. After a few moments the shadows ceased to attack me. Blood was pooling on the floor beneath me and staining the bed. My now destroyed Hospital gown was soaked and clinging to my bloody skin and exposed muscle and bone. I weakly lift an arm and hold it out to the two people standing in the door their sunken eyes locked with my slivery ones. They gave me a twisted smile more black lquid pouring from their cracked torn lips leaving back trails from the corners of their mouths. I woke up in my bed my scarf wound around my mouth. No blood no hospital gown...Still in my dress....The only thing that gives away the fact that all of that happened was the white cotton bandages wound around my arms and the puffy pink scar on my stomach.(I gotta do somethings will update ASAP!)
