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Chapter 1 - 1. THE ENCHANTED MANSION

Far , far beyond the mountains,

Deep inside the thick forest,

There exist a huge and old mansion,

With wrecked and dreadful looking.

It was said that, by entering it's rusty gates;

An eerie sound can be heard,

Cold winds will blow, the air around you will change, and a blood curdling voice will start chanting your name, trying to lure you inside.

It was once a place , long ago, where a young and lovely couple used to live ,

Until they were found dead , lying on their own doorways.

They're corpses were nightmarishly horrifying to look at,

They were smiling like a mannequin;

White clothes that looked like feathers of dove,

Not a single blood were spilled in them, it was a miracle,

But on their body, a hole can be seen right through their chests,both of them had no heart.

There was a saying that they do have children, five of them,

But they were missing since that gruesome incident.

Some, use to say that they were killed by their parents and they disposed their bodies,

Some said they killed they're parents and flee,

But there were no proof, just rumours,

Only the corpses of the parents were found,

and nothing more,

Since then, the place has been empty until now ,

Even when hundred of years had passed, no one had dared to lived or even stepped foot inside.

They're dead bodies were buried in their very own garden.

A woman humming a lullaby can be heard inside the mansion,

That can make any living being fall asleep in less than a minutes, they say;

But no soul had never dared to enter,

No living being dared to prove those myths,

A mansion which everyone never want to know about,

But was called 'The enchanted mansion ' even now.

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I lived in a tiny village, never have i slept in a bed, but a pile of hay,

My comfort place, the side of the river near the big tree;

Living alone, never did i cry, but never did i smile,

I do have a mother but she tossed me aside for some younger men and money, i guess .

A father, what i always wanted,

But i had no clue to whom my father was,

I don't even know what it would be like to have a father,

I never even thought about having one.

I lost my ability to smile, when i was, maybe 4?? .

People call me 'the living corpse '

For i was always pale, and skinny

I never put on a smile , physical pains, i felt that but my mind was never suffering, as if it's already dead inside, it feels like I was just simply surviving,

A forever alone child like me can't feel much pain ,

Though living in a same roof, mother never cared about me, so i spend most of my time outside;

I ate every eatable thing i saw,

Sometimes my stomach hurts, I vomit, i faint,

But miraculously, i am somehow still alive.

Having no friend wasn't new for me, people despise me,

They say i disgust them, some beat me up,

Some treated me like i was invisible,

But i never cared about them much.

A promise i made to myself,

Someday i will die too, and when that day comes

I will try to smile for the first time in my life,

I never counted but it seems I'm already 15years old,

I get scolded and get beaten every time mother see's me, so i always avoid her.

Some men, whom my mother use to hangout with often tried to play me, that's why i always stay outside.

When i resisted on pleasuring them , they beat me until i collapse,

Mother saw everything but was still laughing, i wasn't surprised whenshe looked at me with disgust,

Said i was useless, worthless and the cause of all the misfortunes in her life.

And that i wasn't supposed to born

"She's not even a human",

She said and laugh ,that's when i had ran away,

That wasn't new, i endure it so many times , it was like a daily routine for me,

But that's not what makes me emotionless, it was the fact that how i was still alive and can't die even if i wanted to, this wretched life, why can't it just end?

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