The house on Maple Street

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I'm turning eighteen tomorrow,
I never thought I would  be saying that but here I am. The inevitable number eighteen, the age were freedom was an open gate, but not for me.

This house these people were all I knew, all I've ever known. Maybe it's better to stay? I always ask myself that but I constantly have this voice in my head telling me to get as far away from here as I possibly can. Don't get me wrong I love my family after all they're all I've known, but there're odd or maybe that's how all families are I wouldn't know, as I've never even seen another family.

Hi, my names Eden
I live in a house on Maple Street with my brother Aric, my mother Claire, my Auntie Ivy and my Dad Vic even though it's been five years since he left, some part of me still feels as if he might come back. He was the only person who made me feel sane.

I barely leave the house, the only time I go out in the front is when my family disappears for an hour each day. I paint and read my only escapes from the trapped world I live in, I don't know why they disappear for that one hour each day, I don't know why a lot of things are the way they are. I don't ask questions about the outside world that I somehow long and fear to see only because I don't know the consequences if I do.