“I once told you to hide your heart. You should have listened to me. "
The Red Queen. Victoria Averyard
I was sitting in the dining room of my house having breakfast with my parents.
My mother as always was with her habit for control while my father advised her to relax a bit.
I smile watching them, if only I could stop time and freeze it right now, when I was fine, when I was happy.
I get up from the chair when the image changes to something much more unpleasant.
I feel the fear invade me again, again the blood soaks the floor and my shoes.
I look again at my mother's shattered body, my tears come to the surface, soaking my cheeks.
I did not want to continue seeing this, the image changes again, this time it was my father trying to talk to me while she was choking on her own blood and I could not do anything to help her.
The scene vanishes when a new memory comes to the fore, the cell, the beatings, the room, the abuse.