Introvspect

Chapter 1 (Childhood: A Beginning)

The sky was a light orange hue in the early afternoon.

Jasie had just taken a little nap when she decided to go outside and enjoy the warm weather to play with her own toy car that can be maneuvered in any direction. She thought about what her parents had said about not staying out too late since she may fall in the wrath of a roaming ghost or a serial killer.

She was not afraid of anything and she was not at all threatened by what her parents had mentioned. She just wondered about how in the world could a supernatural being and let alone a simple stranger be able to do anything to her when little did they know she was a special child. Special in the sense that she was not near someone who was considered normal as what she assumed. She was still 6 years old.

She was fascinated by those unimaginable creatures or by those people drawn to their immoral desires of brutality. They were considered to be taboos of the society and yet there they were doing their own thing of scarring the lives of the people they made to become victims. Jasie knew that she was still a tad too innocent to be engrossed with grown-up tales that may ruin her mind eventually but that was what made her very special indeed.

She saw that the sky was slowly turning to an aesthetic blue and decided to go back inside her home and thus left her toy car near the doorstep.

Her mother was cooking a heavy meal of a fried chicken stew with other side dishes that include rice, a Mediterranean vegetable salad, and a plate of assorted fruits as dessert.

Marie was very beautiful and kind that when she was young, she accumulated gazillions of suitors just waiting for her one curious look at them of which they would consider as the gaze of a goddess. She had brown amber eyes with dark luscious hair. She was very feminine with a tall build that could equate the figure of a fashion model.

Her father was watching an old time favorite television series all about survival from zombies and of course was also considered to be a preferred genre for the family.

Alexon was the domineering type, like the type to leave a strong ominous impression when someone would come to face him at a very unlucky time at that. He was still fairly good-looking and had the intelligence of a renowned genius as a well-respected doctor. He had the same pair of eyes of that of his wife and was slightly taller than her. Jasie was somehow a combination of them both with big brown eyes and an angelic face.

"Jasie, are you fine? Are you okay?" Her father asked right away as soon as she had set her left foot merely a few inches from the door upon entering the living room.

It was as if a war had just broken out every time his daughter would go outside to play.

"Yes Papa, I had so much fun that no one would dare ruin it for me. I am untouchable. I just know it!" Jasie answered back with too much excitement in her voice.

She knew all too well not to make her father upset in any way possible since he was a terrorizing figure who would devour all those who would go against him. One mistake can lead to a tsunami wave of insults or scoldings that would truly traumatize her greatly.

"Jasie, now I hope you have spent your last day of enjoyment well as you are starting school tomorrow." Her mother reminded her of the dreadful and yet mysterious day they called the first day of school.

For some, it would mean a whole new beginning and yet for Jasie, it would become a tiring judging session of her classmates as to find out whether she could fit in or at least make herself decide whom she could be friends with.

"Mama, do you think I am lovable?"

She wanted to know whether she was deserving of love as she was skeptical about how she would grow up to become.