Bonus chapter 1

Three years ago.

Yusuf POV

I was drowning in darkness, I could feel what was going on around me but I couldn't move, I couldn't even open my eyes. I heard what people around me were saying, their cries. The movement of one place to another but I couldn't open my eyes.

I didn't know how many days, weeks, months or years that I'd been living in the darkness.

I heard someone coming in, taking a seat. The person held my hands, stroking it softly. The person's hand was warm.

"Yusuf, wake up" it was my mom, she was crying as usual. "it had been so long dear. Just give a sign or twitch your finger or furrow your brow" She sniffled, I wished to move my hand to comfort her but it was impossible.

Some minutes pass before I heard the screech of the chair I believed she was sitting. She was going again. I'd like to stop her, I was tired of this darkness.

My eyes flutter opened, I blinked continuously so that my eyes could adapt to the ray of light.