4 July 2012
"Everyone will find happiness in their lives when the time is right for them. They will find their own seat of happiness, and it will look different from anyone else's, " said a stranger who slept at the bed beside mine in the hospital. At that time I didn't believe what he said or if I would ever find my seat of happiness. Even now - seven years later - I still didn't. I'm sixteen now and I haven't found anything like happiness... or anything that's even close to it.
My name is Lizette and I was born with the ability to control water and while most people would call me special, a lot more would think that I'm a monster. But don't get me wrong, I know what happiness looks like. I've experienced it myself when I was a kid... and that was before my powers showed up. When my powers showed up, i was about three years old, and at that time, my mom thought that I was a monster.
"Don't call me mom! I never gave birth to you! If only you hadn't been born!" she kept on saying that whenever I call her. My dad divorced her because of me and since then, she would never stop hurting me. The abuse got worse when I was in third grade. She started cutting my wrist with sharp objects. She would never stop even if i cried and screamed. The neighbors knew nothing but took pity on me and always tried to bandage my wounds, but the abuse never stopped. I once lost so much blood that I had to be hospitalized.
When I got to fourth grade, I ran away and found the cops. Back then, I was only wearing a white dress stained with blood, my black hair was cut short and there were bandages all over my hands, feet, and my head. When I was asked, I told them about my mom and the problem got to court. In the end I had to go to my relatives. All of them refused although they didn't know about my powers, because I had become concealed from all my mom's abuse. But an aunt who was a lawyer took me in, and somehow the both of us worked things out and i ended up staying with her until now.
I am Lizzette. I am now 16. This is a story of how I finally found a boy who accepts me for who and what I am.
My Own Seat : Prologue • Opuss № I