A/N The first part of this prologue is kinda boring, but it's necessary. It's the backstory for the main character. I promise though, if you even make it to chapter 2, it will get a lot better.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmc2lZFKwM
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWuZGvhBd3
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswXfHU4nnY
***869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdgcpL136n1
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOym5FeyhF
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDoJfVSshL
I love living alone. It's one of the only pros that comes with living in the foster system for eighteen years; you get to be left alone, and I have to admit, I quite like it that way. Once I got out of the house of my foster mother, I found myself a job, and an apartment. She's a bitch, who disliked me, but not nearly as much as I despised her. She's one of those people who seemingly performs acts of great kindness, but only does so to keep up appearances. 869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAJjO8dVEE
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWV4V51XlZ8
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGgrRQMH0g
This is why I'm glad I left, glad I'm alone.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKP2IEazoNj
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27k9yoNgo3
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVIql8ozhf
There are many benefits that come with living in isolation. I don't have to interact with anyone else intimately on a daily basis. I don't have do deal with disagreements, confrontations. I don't have to compromise. I don't have to support anyone else; just my African Grey Parrot, Silver, and myself.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPpHb8uXLg
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRUeDuYRaJ
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmmpq4cVQi
However, living by yourself also means that you have no help, i.e. you have to do all of your chores on your own. I look at this as yet another symbol of my independence, albeit a huge inconvenience at times. 869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNDq832wDB
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPpaDeghpT
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyOZudFu7S
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7pewn6Bme6
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnrcO0ObYl
Once I got out of that bitch's house, I did interviews for a job at Burger King, the cashier at the local supermarket, and a waitress. I got accepted for all three. Things have always kind of worked out for me; ever since I was a child, I always seemed to get what I wished for. Firstly, getting accepted into a foster home; although the bitch never adopted me, most children in the foster system in Jamaica never see outside of a children's home.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdT4T9OeKD
When I was six years old, I wished for a foster parent to take me in. I didn't want to stay at the home, fighting the other children for food and toys anymore; even then, I liked being alone. I wanted to live only with one other person - I disliked company - and I didn't want to be adopted; the idea that I'd have another human being tied to me for the rest of their/my life because they'd legally taken up the title of 'parent' disgusted me. The next day, I found out that a woman by the name of Ms. Williamson was interested in taking in a foster child, about the age of six. She came in and spoke to me, and even then, I sensed something off about her. She just seemed wrong; I knew that I wouldn't like her.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjDOqhx3Pq
However, she decided that I was 'the one', and I decided that if I had to put up with a two-faced demon for the next twelve years of my life to get out of this hell hole, I wouldn't complain.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMeNOvpPpB
This wasn't the last time that this happened to me; Williamson knew nothing about me, but every birthday, I got exactly what I wanted.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsySJ8GJn1
For my fifteenth birthday, she got me a full sized violin made of Brazilian wood, as well as a beginner's guide to learning it, although I had never shared with her, or anybody else, for that matter, my obsession with wanting to learn how to play the instrument. For my seventeenth, she grudgingly gave me a female African Grey parrot (again, exactly what I wanted), which I named Silver, although she herself hates birds.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHwgK7OHEWf
This would happen every single year.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeS6VT4xLt
My luck wouldn't stop there, either. I always got the test grades that I wanted, yet I've never studied a day in my life. As a result, I have a scholarship to go to University and do a degree in anatomy. Again, something ideal - a degree that I can use in a lab - because I hate interacting with people.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pyUbZPWum
That last statement brings me back to my loneliness. I live alone in my studio apartment, with Silver, and work as a waitress in a nearby restaurant on the weekends. I go to school on week days, and somehow, I manage to do all of this without exhausting myself.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgKlpxy52eb
As I pick up my garbage and haul it outside, I wonder to myself if being alone is really better than living with someone else. It would really be more convenient, and honestly, I don't think that I can do this all on my own.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJ7atUWu6x
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9l3JBGw0CO
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Hspt9Ovb9
As I manage to throw the bag into the dumpster, I turn to go inside, only to see something red/orange under the mango tree right outside my apartment. I squint in an attempt to see the object properly, before freezing in fright. 869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXN0UYPOn7
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pLcM2GACc
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP50uYFHJIe
Not one... but two. 869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQW460aiEZ
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjx57cm3ER
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVnknP75ic
Balls of fire.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmah2lQ3dLW
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpul0D0YIU
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4O3FUnyGH
As eyes.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPhwcKgU9l
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Zvfa5JNK3
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5DrYGcLEp
On... a bull.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibX1e7seI2
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaet3pvuQsw
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtKlEg0dSI
A huge, black bull, by far bigger than any bull I've ever seen.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9EGQJaLAy1
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1VfY0qLIg
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJk32KoAIwJ
What.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmStSQbKkSu
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADQgx2wUE0
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPx2DKIEXE9
The.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX787E1Dp6z
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8q3FGv6A4N
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEZ2dLVOUi
Hell.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3segnct5D
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RSvSiYNSS
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUiUPb4mn8
Please tell me that this isn't what I think it is.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSkIa0CQaq
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKZBwZqpdN
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlkLKbKs9u
To make matters worse, he's looking right at me, almost as if he's staring me down. I think I just peed a little.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLsa43wpeK
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUIlkhFqTx
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIXALxUjkIU
As if he can smell the fear - and the trace of urine - on me, me makes a grunting noise, as if he's laughing.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb89VslJyTy
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yWFnoYPnl
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OcfKI4E0t
That's when I decide that I've seen enough, and I run back into my apartment so fast, that I trip over the threshold and fall straight on my face. I scramble up to lock the door, my heart beating so hard fast that my chest hurts.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWepuY83QOE
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmldQupIhS
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUwtLx7Sjh
Did I just see...869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ641BYwD735
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAAAR8ktKJ
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1jH9L6S1k
No.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gnyxyqyOL
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnm9vwbZ1I
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcA51hYKiUq
But the eyes...869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigBtbMQNic
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSAghnDBwY
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdqhGNyV9fP
Did I just see a blasted *rolling calf?869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78RbQnZtdq
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfheqKb3r3y
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58VSjmGD4h
Tentatively, I look out my kitchen window, which allows me to see the mango tree - and he's still there. Watching me through the window.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7cUWBD1W0
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9P6uRYnj6o
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO7lEU53LLU
I pinch myself hard enough to confirm that I am indeed awake, then I look up again.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycZLOeG2yT
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4vzoWdUis
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwo9T7hsyt
Still there.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wz5jKeXaN
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0KmOnKssX
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sEZlX5Z61
What's even more interesting, something that I just realised, is that he hasn't moved from under the tree; he didn't chase me.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwm7MKG6cL
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oCTzZiRhl
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EvylDHktL
***869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXRPhs66AW
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcEAQGmipg
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiNqBAp5aqY
*rolling calf: Creature in Jamaican folklore resembling a bull, sometimes said to have blood red eyes, other times said to have balls of fire for eyes and sometimes said to have smoke coming from their nostrils. It is said that rolling calves are the spirits of dishonest/evil people, as well as butchers, trapped in this form, who supposedly kill anyone who crosses their path. Some stories say that they have a particular liking for children. They usually have a bell and/or chains which make noise, allowing others to hear them approach. I have personally heard several stories of people seeing rolling calves, and they seem to have a liking for rural areas. I don't know if the part about evil/dishonest people/butchers is real, but I haven't completely disregarded the people who claim to have seen it/known people who saw it.869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Iha6FMjCT
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfjDuJASLv
869Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3VlQF6yOR2
