Learning the truth
236 Words
Eliza’s life had always been a puzzle of perpetual strangeness. She had been adopted at birth, and though she loved her family deeply, a sense of not quite belonging had clung to her since she was old enough to remember. It wasn’t only the fact her hair was an unusual shade of silver or that her eyes had an almost otherworldly quality to them, but rather the uncanny feeling that she was different from everyone around her. She is special.
The feeling of being an outside was only intensified by the cruelty of her peers at school. They seemed to sense her vulnerability and exploited it mercilessly. Eliza was teased, taunted, and ridiculed, leaving emotional scars that ran deep. At times her feelings were so overwhelming, it felt like she was drowning, suffocating in her own sorrows and confusion on why she is different.
But everything was about to change.
On the eve of her 18th birthday, Eliza’s world took a surreal turn. It began with a faint voice that whispered in her head, gentle and soothing. At first, she thought she was imagining things, a desperate desire for some form of companionship amidst the isolation that she felt for so long. The thought she might be going insane also crossed her mind, sending her deeper into depression, making her mind swirl with dangerous thoughts. As time passed the voice became clearer, more insistent, more real.
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