The Zodiac Keeper

I was a normal little girl until the age of 4. My mother was always looking after me, I didn’t know my father, I was always told that he was dead. My mother’s best friend Rin was like my dad, he did anything for me and bought me whatever I wanted. On the days that my mother worked, Rin would take me to the park that we lived next too, I would sit on the bench most of the time, I didn’t like the other children, they were all mean or covered in lord knows what. Rin would talk with the other adults, always checking on me.

One day when we went to the park, there wasn’t many people around, maybe ten, most of whom were just walking through and were gone in a minute or two. I played on the swings that day, they were my favorite play structure, and normally the other kids were using, that’s why I always sat on the bench. I played on the swings for a while before growing bored of them and just sat there. I didn’t know how long it was before I started seeing black spots in my line of vision and I was on the ground. I don’t remember anything after that. I woke up in a room in the middle of the night, I could see the moon through the bar covered windows, there was three doors around the room, the first was a bathroom, the second was a closet, and the third was most likely the main door, it was locked.

In the morning, the bars were gone, the door was still locked, I could not leave the room. I have a ring with 13 keys on it. 12 have symbols, the last one does not. I don’t know what these keys do, but as I grow I will learn what each one does every year on my birthday.