Live or Dead

Chapter One: Karina

My name is Karina Vantrar and I will probably never know what freedom is. It is the year 2362 and anything my dad says goes. He is practically immortal and has been around since 1978 but whatever he says go since he's practically God of our land and I am to be married into the second richest family in the world so my dad can continue to have control of the world's money.

I didn't like the man I was to marry he was 15 years older and was mean and controlling. I was just a pawn in a political game and the only person who probably understood my pain was the boy in the glass coffin. 

He has been there since 2016 dad put him there. He is the very first super human soldier but also the first person to get injected with the new prisoner serum. In the ancient times the grimm brothers wrote a story about Snow white in a glass coffin. He reminded me a lot of snow white. I use to always think a kiss would wake him up.

When I read those stories as a little girl at five years old I attempted kissing the boy. He never woke up and luckily I didn't get caught because apparently father hated the boy more than anything else in the world but yet here he kept him in the entrance hallway for everyone to see as soon as they walked through the front doors. 

At 11 years old I found out the boy can hear and feel everything and I became so embarassed for kissing him at five because now me and him had a big secret. He knew I had done it 13 years ago. The boy knew all my secrets all the things I use to babble to him at three years old. All my sob stories and all my breakups when I was in highschool. 

My dad was too busy with his life to talk to me. My brother was too busy destroying and owning countries and if I needed help a psychitrist was sent to me to put me on a whole bunch of medication that made me feel like a Zombie. 

So the boy in the glass coffin was my therapist who could never talk back. I gave him all my problems and walked away. After hundreds of years of being stuck in his own mind I thought it would be nice to let him deal with my problems instead of drowning in his own. I also told him how life has progressed from 2016. All the things my dad and brother were doing. That I was stuck marrying a rat.

And even though it was dangerous telling him all this he was never going to wake up. The coffin kept him alive and breathing but dad had injected him so bad that his body would be in this state for an eternity. 

I guess I was a lucky five year old having the courage to make out with this guy to hopefully wake him up because as I hit my teen years I started to notice how hot the boy in the glass coffin was.
I was sitting in a chair next to the coffin now. No one was home and I demanded the guards leave me alone. I had the glass coffin open and I was holding the boys hand. Today was friday and I was telling him the latest movies that were out and books and anything else I could think of and all the crazy news reports I had read that morning. 

I knew this man has murdered my brother in cold blood but it was hard to be angry at him. I never knew my brother that was hundreds of years ago when my father was mortal. And I hated my father I hated how I was controlled. Maybe this boy was fighting for his freedom and this was evidence of what happens to people who try to be free.

"If I don't want to get married...if I want to be free and choose my own life, do you think my dad will put me in a glass coffin too?" I asked the boy.

But of course I would not ever get an answer. His eyes were shut, his black vneck sweater only showed a hint of his faint breathing as his chest moved up and down. He wore black pants and black highttops with green shoe laces. I had lifted his sweater once to see chest tattoos all over him and he had them on his arms too. He looked like a normal teen boy but according to my dad he had been in the military and he was a psychotic murder.

"Goodnight, Slide." I said kissing his hand.

I shut the glass coffin and went up to my room to go to bed dreaming about the boy waking up and I had been looking into beautiful sea green eyes.