Mad Father. Before the curse

Ines

"I remember it started like all the other days. We will be here a while, may I tell you my story? Hehehehe well, this is it!"
"I stretched my sore back, disturbing KK, the small dusty brown rat that was asleep by my head. I blinked my eyes as they adjusted to the light filtering through the tree branches. I stood up, dusting the dirt that clung to my tattered white dress away. I yawned and sat back down, allowing KK and Jiji, the small brown and white mouse to climb onto my shoulder and up onto my dirty blond hair. My stomach growled so I went to get what little food I had hidden under the tree roots. I sighed when I saw how little food I had, there was no way that I could feed myself, KK, Jiji, Leaf, the black rat, Coco, the dark brown rat, and Aki, the scrawny golden dog. I suppose that it was harder when Zo, the white mouse, Milk, the cream rat, Nani, the white rat with the black ears and tail, and Spot, the old tabby cat were still here, but Aki scared them away. After I divided the food out I realised that I didn't have enough left for me. So, I told my friends to stay so I could try and find something to eat. While I was searching I saw a rich looking man with a lab coat walk by. I know it was bad of me but I thought that he would have enough money it wouldn't matter if he "lost" some, at least if I took some from him I could buy food for us all. So I snuck up on the man who was none the wiser, as I began to reach my hand into his pocket I stepped on my shoeless feet. I fell over, bumping into him and making him fall over. I was scared that he was going to yell at me, but he helped me up and even asked if I was ok. I was surprised that a complete stranger was being so kind to me. He asked if where my family was, but I had to tell him that I didn't have one. He looked shocked and he patted my head. What he did next surprised me even more, he said I could be part of his family! He told me he had a daughter at home and said that she would be my new sister if I wanted to come. Of course I agreed with him, now I realise that wasn't the best decision, really I should of ran then, but I didn't know what was going to happen. He took me to his house, it was huge! It was bigger than anything I had ever seen before, I thought I was going to be happy there. He took me to a room down a giant flight of stairs. The room was simple, there was a bed, a small desk with a dusty chair under it, and an old barrel. The was a small room connected to it with a toilet and sink. As I sat on the bed I realised that I hadn't told my friends where I was going, I felt bad but I saw a dirty brown rat scamper across the room. I went over to say hi to him but he panicked and hid under the barrel. I sighed and sat on the bed again. Shortly after a nice lady came in and introduced herself as Maria, Dr Alfred Drevis' assistant. She brought me some food and said to rest up, the food was bigger than anything I had eaten, all together. Once I was full I fell asleep, the bed was much more comfortable than the tree roots I was used to sleeping on. I'm not sure how long I was in that room for, but I made friends with the rat from before, but it was still boring but I couldn't complain, I still got food, however they started to taste funny, but food was still food. I remember that the first day that the food started tasting funny I could not get to sleep at all that night, that was the same for the other times that the food tasted funny, it was originally a couple of days between the funny tasting food, which resulted in the lack of sleep, but eventually it was every day, which meant I didn't sleep either, but I got used to it. I remember that one day the man who took me here, Alfred Drevis, said that he needed me. He took me down a long, dark hallway and down another flight of stairs. We went into a foul smelling room, but it was too dark for me to see anything. When we left that room there was a smaller hallway, there was a puddle on the floor and I stopped to look into it, I was surprised by what I looked like, I was much paler then I was when I first came here, and under my eyes were huge dark bags, however I wasn't able to look at myself for long because Maria came out of the room at the very end of the hallway and came over to me. The three of us entered the room she came out of. This room smelt worse that anything I had ever smelt, it smelt worse than the decomposing animal I found, even worse than the room from before. It was too dark to see but I could feel her lie me down on something cold and hard. I winced as Maria pulled something metal over my neck, arms, stomach, and legs, restricting my movement. She turned the light on and I could see I was in some kind of laboratory, with cabinets full of strange looking chemicals lining the walls, but the worst thing I could see from when looked around the room was the bags slumped in a corner, leaking something red and sticky. I heard a door slam and I looked up to see the man I trusted, Alfred Drevis, standing over the table I was strapped to, holding a large syringe with a shiny substance in it. I can still remember exactly what he said after this, he said "Maria, did you give the subject the correct dosage with each meal?" she nodded as he continued "Then record what happens when we use the prepared chemicals on someone who has not slept in one and a half weeks" he leant over had stabbed the syringe into my arm as he said this. It felt like he injected fire into my blood, I felt tears running down my face, but the worst thing was that I could feel myself smiling. As the man began to write something in this red book I could hear laughter, after several minutes I realised that the laughter was my own. That is when I blacked out. When I woke up I could still feel that substance burning me, but I felt cold. Really cold. I could still hear myself laughing, I could still feel me smiling. I heard a voice telling me what I needed to do, I couldn't see where the voice was coming from, but I could tell it was a woman. There was a lot of other people here too, but most are just groaning and either pulling themselves around with their arms or staggering around, completely ignoring the woman, but there are some, like me who was listening to her."
"So! Hehehehe that was my story! My pitiful, sad story... But ya know what hurts the most? That he promised that I would be part of his family... Hehehehehehehehehehehe. I know it isn't funny, but I just can't stop! Hehehehe"