Prologue

                                    

                                          
I've never really understood this thing, this pain I have in my head and the sudden exhaustion, the feeling of being out of breath and feeling Luke I just ran a mile when I just woke up from a nap. Then Mother comes in with medicine I swallow even though it leaves a disgusting taste in my mouth, the pain goes away soon, and Father gives me some ice cream telling me that I've done a good job. The thing is...I don't understand why. 
                          
Hello. My name is (Y/N) and I am taught privately at my house, I'm Nine years old and I have friends but their all older than me...and take care of me. People always tell I'm too mature for my age but that's just how Mother taught me to be. Making mistakes isn't exactly tolerated in my house, I get few passes for mistakes because I'm young but soon I won't be and I'll have to face my parents head on everytime I mess up. 
                          
"(Y/N)?" I have a caretaker to watch over me when Mother and Father leave for work, she's my best friend. She's told me a lot about her, her name is Annie and she is 19 years old. She goes to college and sells her paintings to make extra money besides the money she gets paid from working for my parents. She likes coffee (I think its pretty bitter) and she enjoys her time she spends with me. She has a bunny named Hansel and she's shown me pictures, he looks like milk with spots of light chocolate or whatever... 
                          
She comes over to my desk, she looks very graceful. She has dyed her hair like a galaxy and wears these very bright but pale contacts that make her skin look very light like cream. 
"(Y/N)~ what's the matter? Are you ignoring me" Annie pinches my cheeks rather gently. "I would never ignore you, I was just...thinking" I answered. "Oh~ okay now you have to tell me (Y/N)'s deep thought of the day!" She looked excited to hear what I was thinking about, she always is not sure why though. 
                          
"I was just thinking about what my mom said I had, um I think its called-"
                          
"Anemia?"
                          
"Yeah that, and how I have to take that medicine when I can't breathe and when my chest starts hurting, and then how mother comes in with some medicine and father comes in with ice cream and then it's all better"
                          
"Well you don't take medicine all the time, a lot of the time your given vitamins, you only have to take actual medicine a few times a week not consistently" Annie corrected me. Annie is so polite when I make a mistake. Is it because she makes a lot of mistakes too? 
                          
"Right, sorry" I apologized, she just smiled sweetly just like she always does. Annie is very motherly. She rubs my head and holds my hand "Well I've got some good news (Y/N) you're parents are enrolling you in a school!"
                          
"A school? With other students? I'm not sure about this..." I sighed, I like having a tutor come here instead, on TV everyone is always distracted by some boy or girl who's making their life more interesting but making their grades worse with some more time consuming distraction. I don't want that to happen to me. Ever. 
                          
"Aw come on~ as much as you love me I know you want friends your own age, and I'll still be here every afternoon to meet you when you get home" Annie pressed on the subject, it made me nervous and mad all in one. How could she say that? I've always been happy with her taking care of me. "But I'm fine with just you" I don't know how I can make it any clearer that I'm not into this whole..."social interaction" stuff. The frown she gave me just proved that I really have no choice, she was sent here to do her job. Break the new so that when my parents tell me it will "lessen the blow". 
                          
"(Y/N) you're only a child, there's no need to act like a moody teenager...you have plenty of time to do that for the rest of your life- c'mon be excited! The school is still a private school there's no downgrade in your education, they'll be other students there to help you in case you get stuck on something, actually going to a psychical school might just be easier than working with Miss...miss-"
                          
"Miss Hattie" 
                          
"Right- um and besides the school's pretty strange, you like ghosts and stuff right?" 
                          
"Are you trying to tell me the school is haunted...? That sounds ridiculous" 
                          
"Well not exactly- oh gods, what I mean is the school is so weird it matches its headmaster- I mean come on! Am I not convincing you at all?! You don't exactly have a choice on if you want to go there or not" I know she's right, its just easier to refuse than except the fact that my day to day schedule is about to be thrown away. Yes that's right, wake up at 7:30, get ready, eat breakfast, make sure I did all my homework from Miss Hattie, Miss Hattie comes then leaves after she's done teaching, I study and eat lunch, then Annie comes over and hangs out with me and helps me clean, we read together, Annie tells me stories about what happens on her college campus and I like listening to them because unlike everything around me it feels real. Then I get ready and go to bed.
                          
"I know I don't have a choice, I know I can't have a say in this because I'm young and you know that whole thing about 'children should be seen and not heard' I know that it's just...I don't want to disappoint my parents...you make a lot of mistakes but I told my parents that I really like you because you don't act like my servant like everyone else, I can tell you anything and everything without a doubt and you won't judge me ridicule me, you just treat me like a friend" A nervous habit of mine? Talking. The words just kept spilling from that point forward to the point of tears, screaming, sobbing. Annie just listened to what u had to say, everything she let me throw a tantrum and complain about the ridiculous things I would never dream of saying to my own parents. 
                          
You see I can't really speak to my parents about anything but to Annie? Oh gods I could tell her anything and she wouldn't tell my parents. Annie is a very important person in my life and I don't know what I'd do. Annie took my suitcase out of closet.
                          
I don't want to go
B
                          
ut it's okay. As long as Annie is here, I'll be fine.
                          
I'll be fine
                          
Fine
                          
It'll be fine.