The Secret Life of Annalise Cathaway
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  • Reads 96
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  • Parts 2
  • Time 14m
Ongoing, First published Dec 13, 2013
"It wasn't supposed to be like this!" I yelled. "No one was supposed to get hurt."

"But someone was hurt, my love." He spoke. 

All I could see was black. I was dreaming, that I was sure of. I know that voice. I told myself, but i just couldn't picture the face to match it. Something inside me told me to go to him. Though my feet were stuck to the cold floor. I was barefoot and only wearing my pajamas, which were just shorts covered by an over-sized t shirt that reached my mid thigh. I felt exposed, even in the dark.

"Don't call me that! Please, please, please just stop it. Please." I begged. The last part coming out in a whisper.

 I tried pinching myself, but that only caused a pain in my forearm. Wake up, Wake up, Wake up. I pleaded with myself, hoping to reach my sleeping body. 

He cackled. "Too late my love. Your just too late...." Then I felt the dream fade away into nothing and my eyes opened. 

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Annalise Cathaway is an average girl. Or so she thinks? Though her parents barely stop arguing and her best friend since summer camp is her only true confidant.  What happens when one night she over hears her mothers phone conversation with a mysterious "Eli"? She thinks nothing of it, just that it may be one of her moms old friends. Until, one day her mother asks to talk to her privately. What her mother reveals to her, soon turns her life upside down. Forced to tell lies to those she loves the most and blackmailed into doing dirty deeds. Annalise must find a way to save the ones she loves the most, even a possible crush.
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