Girl Unnoticed

Girl Unnoticed [Prologue]

Prologue

Sometimes people push you beyond the border that you have built to keep yourself composed. You draw a line you know it shouldn’t be crossed yet you go ahead and do it anyway because you want to feel that adrenaline rush through your veins of doing something that isn’t acceptable. I wished that my reason for going overboard were because I decided to do so. Instead, I was pushed beyond my boundaries and tested to see if I would break apart—I did. Nothing could be crueler than the past years I have been through yet I deal with it. I regretted many decisions; yet I couldn’t do anything to undue them.

Those days haunted my dreams at night; made me break in a cold sweat that had me waking up in a shrilling scream. My parents had had enough of it at one point, their diplomatic position in society on the edge of being destroyed. We were the paragon for the perfect image of a family with just one child and her two parents who were the pinnacle of attention. My parents weren’t there when the tortures began; they weren’t there to wipe the tears that ran down my cheeks. They weren’t present for my scholarly awards or teacher and student meetings. They had more important things to tend to and at first I couldn’t blame them because I didn’t understand well, but as time passed on I began to resent and despise them.

They had propagated the abuses that I had to endure for years and they didn’t even notice. Of course I kept it well hidden from them, not wanting to shatter the image of their perfect daughter in tiny little pieces. I hoped that by moving away I would enjoy life and its new beginning for me, as I would be unnoticed by people. I had been proved wrong as so many times before.