Previously Selena, but now it's cursed.

She entered the castle.

Her castle, her dome.

"Welcome home." Many smoke spirit flew around as they welcome her back.

She met a load of gifts at the entrance, she guessed her father must have done that again. She dragged the bag of the gifts inside to the hallway and left it there.

She knew those cannot enter the castle and always drop her load out. It was because the castle has always been scary.

She walked deeper into the castle and entered her room. She laid down without putting off her uniform.

She woke up, hours later and she showered.

She wore her princess night gown and walked to where the gifts were. She unload it and wasn't surprised to see food, snacks, and clothes with shoes.

She stared at the food with no emotions.

Her food always spoiled yearly. She never knew to cook

What surprised her was a brand new iphone 14 that her father bought. Her father changed her phone yearly.

She was using iphone 13, wasn't it last year he got it for her?

The iPhone 13 was even useless, she never operate her phone.

She wondered the uses of the phone because she never liked it at all. She had no contact on the phone, except her dad's own that he always saved before he delivered it. She has never called him before. He also has never tried to call, except one day he told her he was marrying a new wife that he had waited enough.

She only felt guilty toward her mom she's never met. Except that, she only have neutral feelings to her dad.

She walked to the big portrait of her mom and started at it emotionlessly.

She couldn't help but notice the picture of a boy and her when she was still a baby.

"Who is this boy?" She remembered she had asked Mary about the boy in the picture when she was still alive.

"Reuben. He like you so much that he plead me to let him name you and he was only two" Mary had replied with a broad smile. "He always put you first . He had always visited you before you turned a year old. And when you almost turned a year, he left the country with his mom."

"Will he still come again?" She had also asked with a smile.

"He said he will, if he was permitted." Mary had said with sadness in her eyes and she had also confirmed that this her little friend might not come back.

She stared at the picture and wondered where the little boy might be, even if she didn't know him or haven't seen him before. But to see someone to care for her, even when people avoided her the most, tugged at her heart.

"You see human are fake. He promised to come, but he has never come. Human are not to be trusted." The smoke spirit said but she got ignored by her as always.

She picked up her new phone and put it in wardrobe in her room.

She walked to her verandah upstairs, and looked at the silent street with no expression. She wanted to smile, but it was stiff. She could only watched the bird that was playing on the loop

People always wondered why her parents got a castle in the forest.

She heard from Mary that they rebuilt this castle that her father got from his grandfather for their honeymoon and her mother had always wished to give birth in the castle and raised all her children there. Her father rejected the offer and told her to only give birth to Theodora in the castle and she is going to raise her in California.

The name of the house was named and bought with the name of her Mother. The castle is called after Selena Castle before her mother died.

But ever since she was born, everyone avoided the castle like a plague and called it a cursed castle.

'Theodora Selena McDonald, well-done. Your life is a series itself.' She thought and gave a last glance at the lonely street and walked into her bedroom. She lied on the bed and slept off in a foetus shape, soundly.

The spirit smoke slept beside her with an eery laughter.