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The next morning, I woke up sore, my eyes puffy, my nose red, and the worst pains were in my heart. How could I let that happen? I asked myself. I looked over at Natalie’s sweet sleeping form, and smiled through my pain. I decided that, at that moment, I would not pass my grief onto others by telling. My abuser wins. He keeps the power. I shook Natalie and whispered in her ear, “I’m gonna eat all the food.” And then she pounced. She landed on my chest, mad. “You will NAWT eat da FOOOOOOOOOOD!” And with that, we started one of our many play fights. She loves it, and I love seeing her happy. I rolled on her, and she rolled on me, and we just rolled around the room for about ten minutes. I soon forgot about the events of the evening prior, until she asked me a question. “Sis, what happened last night? I heard you crying in your sleep.” I sighed, relieved almost. “I-I had a dream about Mom. And Dad.” She sighed. “I know you miss them, sis, but they’ll be back!” I looked at her, tears in my eyes. I had a dream about that too. “Yeah. They will.” I pulled her in close, starting to doubt that. I’ve been waiting a long time for them to come back, and my dreams say they are, but where are they?? I picked her up, and carried her to one of the guards, while I was wondering, Why do they even need guards? It’s nawt like they try to run away, right? I looked up at him, wonder in my eyes, and asked, determination in my voice, “Do you know where everyone is? We woke up late and can’t find anybody.” The guard looked down on me, a fire in his eyes, but said calmly, “They’re in there.” He pointed to a door down the corridor I hadn’t seen before. I smiled politely, as Mother taught me, and thanked him. I put Natalie down, and together we walked down the darkened corridor, for the sun hadn’t quite risen yet. Unless the curtains were tightly shut. I opened the door quietly, to hear the clicks of something and howls and growls and hisses and such. I looked around and I swore I was in the zoo or something of the same insanity level. There wasn’t a single thing human, other than Thomas and Ms. De-De. I felt a claw in my back, so I screamed. Then there was darkness and silence. When I opened my eyes, I howled. I heard Natalie purring as one of the cute guys pet her.

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