I HAD NEVER given much thought to pain, to suffering. I never thought that bad things could happen to me or my family, and, as if it was a lesson, it all came at once. I had learned how to deal with and survive the chronic pain, but even the smallest things had made me upset.
When I saw Maria for the first time, I thought what an incredible, mysterious girl. I need to talk to her. The more I learned about her, the more pain I uncovered. She was a broken girl, from a broken family, and all she wanted was to be loved.
I thought I could give her that love, and it all started when I cleaned her wound despite her reluctance. It was then I knew that I wanted to protect her, shelter her from the world that tried so hard to break her more.
After the night we escaped, I decided that I couldn't help my feelings for her. I felt responsible for her, not in a brotherly way, but in an attractive way. I wanted her to feel safe and protected even though I didn't know it she or I actually was. I loved her.
There, I admitted it to myself.
I love Maria West.
Over the course of eleven days, I had grown to know her in ways that others couldn't. I memorized the desperation in her screams, her silent sobs at night when awoke from a dream, and the kindness beneath it all.
When I first arrived at Amenity, I felt lost. Then I met Anthony and I found my first friend. His condition is pulmonary atresia, which causes his breathing to be rapid and uneven. I thought it was so cool that my new best friend had breathing complications like me, I just didn't know the risks of making friends.
Once the Doctors found out that I met Anthony, they used him as another way to torture me and me for him. After the first few days, they purposely put us in side-by-side rooms, so that we heard each other's suffering. When one of us would stop screaming or crying, the other would begin again and it felt like it would never end.
Basic principles of Amenity: if you don't comply, they kill you. They use the people you love against you every chance they get. And my personal favorite, they threaten your new girlfriend if you don't comply and vise versa. My life really sucked, didn't it?
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