Chapter 1: Birth

Darkness it's strangely familiar like I've seen it before. There's a light moving towards me. Agh fish crackers. My head is in so much pain. "You do know little girls are not supposed to be here." wait why do I hear a man's voice. The light is getting blurry. I see I am about to pass out I guess, "Well Alice it seems that you're having a healthy baby boy." The light it's going away. I see nothing.

My eyes are covered with someone's hands "Guess who?" I hear a man's voice say, "Hmmm, Hank." I say without thinking in a female voice "How did you guess?" "Cmon I know what you sound like." "Point taken, and by the way you do know little girls are not supposed to be here." "I am not little and I can go anywhere I want." "Well Alice I think we should get back now before someone notices we're gone." Everything is dark now and I slowly open my eyes and I can no longer speak and I am back to being a boy, I guess it was a dream. But a dream of what? I see the woman who gave birth to me holding me in her arms so i guess i should call her mom. Well while I was asleep it seems I was cleaned and wrapped in what seems like a small blanket. My mother seems to be sleeping, which seems proper since she just gave birth. She's what people would call beautiful I think, her face has great symmetry. Every part seems to be the right size and shape, her skin is this light shade of brown that glows in the sunlight. Her head is small. Well her entire body is small so it fits. Her eyes are round but piercing like if she looked at you long enough she could see into your soul her ears seem to be the right size for her head. I don't know how to put it in other words or thoughts I guess. Her mouth is full and small but as she now smiles I see this glow of happiness as she looks at me, a few strands of her hair fall into my hands it's soft and soothing.

Why do I feel like I've been through this before but how is that possible? I know this is the first and only time I have been born but I feel as if I have more memories there than what I have experienced.

"BASTARD!" "Don't you dare talk to me like that woman." "You only care about.." AGH, it hurts so much. Why is there pain "What's the matter baby?" it's my head you dimwit. What is going on I am trying to say words but all that's coming out is crying.

Now all sound has stopped even the crickets outside. I wonder why my mom has stopped moving and even I am unable to move, and even the pain has stopped at the moment. Yeah just a moment the pains come back again. What was the stopping, "No not stop just slowed." wait where did that voice come from.

Oh lord my nose it burns there is a terrible smell "Hank you've been working all day, how many times have I told you to take a bath after working." "But I just really wanted to see my baby boy." "He was only born yesterday you have a long time to see him, so go take a bath." "Ok ok I am."

Wait yesterday but I thought that I was born only a little time ago, so that's how sleeping works, the human brain doesn't notice the time passing because no information is being received. Wait how do I even know what these words mean or even know words. I'm already tired and my eyes are naturally closing themselves.

I seem to be walking down a dirt path on a warm summer day short grass alongside the path on the left and on the right there is a forest of thin trees and I turn into the forest at some point and through the trees there lies a river where I decide to sit and write in my diary I seem to do a lot more of drawing the forest on the other side of the river than write about my day. Fish float by in the river every once in a while. I hear some noise in the nearby bushes then a pair of big manly hands covers my face "Guess who?" I hear a man's voice say, "Hmmm, Hank." "How did you guess?" "Cmon I know what you sound like." "Point taken, and by the way you do know little girls are not supposed to be here." "I am not little and I can go anywhere I want." "Well Alice I think we should get back now before someone notices we're gone." "But I only just got here a little bit ago." "But your dad will be home soon and you know how he is." "Ok then, I hope to see you later." "I do to Alice."

Hank is the guy I like and yes I know tall scruffy hair big ears most girls would want to stay away from a guy that looks like him but most girls don't know him. He is one of the kindest people I have ever met. He always listens to me and even though he sometimes tells me to do something I don't wanna do like go home, I know he still cares.

I see the dirt path ahead that leads to my home, it's not that long of a walk but that may be because I am sixteen and to me it feels short but to six year old me it felt like it took forever which made every time I walked this path feel like an entire adventure. Oh shit dad is home his cart is at the house "ALICE GET IN THIS HOUSE NOW, I AM NOT HAPPY WITH YOU!��� I open the door and I feel a hard pain jolt through my body. The pain makes my vision go black, I hear footsteps rapidly hitting the ground going right by me.

Then I feel something else hit my chest, "YOU BASTARD!" "Don't you dare talk to me like that woman." "You only care about sleeping with other women and hitting our daughter." "I am the only reason you can eat and sleep in this house." my dad grabbed my foot and pulled me into the house shoving my mother in too. "I feed you, I clothe you, I give you a place to sleep, and all you do is be a disrespectful brat." "But dad I am not being disrespectful." I do not want to hear your excuses." "Do not speak to her like that." "I will speak to my daughter however I want, and you will not tell me what to do." There's banging on the door my dad stands up and straightens out his shirt then opens the door, standing there is Hanks father with a stern look on his face "I just got done working and my son comes running to me about some issues happening over here, so is there." "I don't believe there is, right Alice." I don't say anything but shake my head no to my dad's question. "Your daughter here is saying there is a problem." "Well she has a tendency to lie. So could you please get going." "You know I'm being very nice here and my son told me what's going on and I was hoping you would just be truthful and tell me and we could probably talk this out, but no you just didn't want that. So I'm not leaving until we can resolve this issue." "Your annoying me." "So what I'm not the one beating on my child."my dad swung his fist at Hanks dad "You know resorting to violence doesn't solve anything." and he moved away from the first and grabbed his arm kicking his feet out from underneath him shoving him to the ground "I really dislike violence and I hate putting my hands on people so Hank would you mind getting my friend that I had to leave waiting in the house "Yes sir I will get Mr. Lionstone." "He runs this village and you know what he will do to me, then do not hit those who are unable to defend themselves." "Oh Mr. Fireheart!"

Light is bright when I wake up but what was that dream, I was my mom but how "Good morning my little man I bet you're hungry. Oh yeah that's some great stuff, it tastes great and very filling. What is it called "Breast milk." a voice says in my head. If you're going to say something to me tell me who you are, and I've lost my mind.

"Twig your evil aren't you, I can feel it. Leave now!" Agh what is that who says that why is there so much pain from hearing that. I'm so tired for some reason.