PURSUING HAPPINESS

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All the air left my lungs as the memories flood back from a few months back, he's here, he's back. I felt my heart rate increase and the fear coming back from that night. Panic took my body over so much I collapsed  on the floor.

"Rose...Rose" I hear my mother calling me but I couldn't open my eyes. My whole body couldn't move, the sounds of my mother calling my name started to fade away.

A little girl playing with her toys in the front yard of the house she grew up in, her toys only consisted of cars and bikes. I realised that little girl was me, before everything happened, before she was mentally and physically fucked up, before she had demons that won't  rest. She was a happy vibrant soul that always smiled, loved her parents and brothers to death. The way she sat in that yellow dress playing with her cars as if she was driving them.

Everyone was busy. Dad grilling food for lunch, Mum and Chanè setting the table near where Dad was busy and the boys riding the bikes down the street. The happy family or so it seemed after a car pulled up the driveway, I immediately recognised  it as classic 1966 cadillac deville. I was so excited  when Dad asked me to come with him.

"Darling...We're just going around the block for a test drive" Dad said to mum.

I remembered the seats was covered with white leather and it made my dress stand out. It was the best day of my life. We stopped at a gas station a few blocks from the house, Dad climbed out and walked over  to two elderly people I don't recognise, but he seemed to know them. After a while they started walking towards the car , elderly couple came to my side and yanked me out the car. I was screaming for my Dad to help me but he was laughing , he said before he drove off  "You're a little spoiled brat stop acting like that, these people will be your parents from now on so behave"

Me not liking this situation...I pulled, screamed, kicked and cried for my father to come and take me and tell me it's a joke but  all I could see was the taillights of  the cadillac.

They put me in the back of an old suv and told me to shut the hell up. I sat there my eyes red as blood trying to hold back sobs. They climbed infront and  introduced themselves as Pete and Maria but I should call them mom and dad

"No!!" I cried "I want my mother and father"

Maria reached over and slapped me across the face with her old wrinkling hands "You will not speak with us that way you will obey and if you don't you'll get punished"

We drove the whole night, me constantly trying to escape when they made pit stops. I realised it only made them mad and they won't let me out of the car anymore.

After six hours we reached the a small house in the woods that you'll not even noticed when you pass. The old man got out and opened my door pulled me by the hair to the door, into the house and to the room I assume was where I was sleeping and threw me inside. He locked the door . The room was extremely cold, I started to panic, I could'nt  breathe due to the lack of oxygen in the room my body started to shake violently and I could feel my fingers turn numb from the cold.

"Rose!... Call the nurse, Rose!" My mum voice echoed through the room."Rose, honey hold on the nurse is on her way"

I heard the door open and someone giving orders, "Hey, you're alright you're just having a little seizure" the nurse calmly talked to me.

After 10 minutes the shaking stopped and I could breath properly. I opened my eyes, my brothers were sleeping on the couch and my mother were sitting next to me.