• My name was Silaina, and ever since I was little people called me different. No one ever liked to be with me, even my mom had left me behind. One night I heard my mom and dad talking and my mom said she couldn’t handle it anymore. She said she couldn’t take care of me and she also said there was something wrong with me. At that time I had no idea what she could have meant, but she had also said I would never be loved by anyone. That I understood perfectly fine. Then Mom noticed me at the stairs and just left without saying anything to me. I never saw or spoke to her again after that. I lived with my dad but he was almost never at home, but I was never alone. My best friends Alice and her big sister Analice were always with me. Alice loved playing pranks on people but Analice would normally hide behind me. But Dad could never see them. Alice told me so.
    Alice and Analice taught me all kinds of things. Alice told me that the reason Dad couldn’t see them is because her and her sister died a long time ago, and that they are spirits. They also told me that there are lots of other kinds of spirits too. The one thing that actually scared me that they told me is that some of them were following me. Now because of the road I chose while still so young I’m where I am now. If only I had chosen something else, please never follow the same path as I did unless you want to end up trapped in this white abyss too.
    So you don’t make the same mistake as I have I shall tell you my story. It all began when I was about eight, just before Mom left us. And just before she hated me, or so I like to think.
    I had just laid down for bed when I heard the sound of someone walking inside my room. I know it couldn’t have been my mom or dad, the door hadn’t opened. So I sat up and turned on my lamp beside my bed. Everything was how I had left it and no one was in my room that I could see so I turned off my lamp so I could go to sleep. The moment my light turned off though I heard a loud crash noise like something big had fallen over in my room. I turned on the light as quick as I could and looked around. My bookcase I had against my wall not far from my bed had been pushed over. There was a girl there too. She looked younger than I was and she was crying.
    Shortly after my dad came rushing into my room, “Silaina! What happened?! Are you okay? How did your bookcase fall?”
    The girl was still standing there but my dad didn’t notice her.
    I told him, “She pushed it down Daddy,” I pointed at where the girl was at, “I didn’t do it.”
    “Silaina, who are you talking about? There’s no one there. Are you feeling alright?”
    “Daddy can’t you see her? She’s standing right there! She’s wearing a white dress,” I turned to face him, “Daddy, can’t you see her?”
    My mom walked in at that moment, “Sweetie, I think you’re just tired. Go to sleep,” she told me, and Daddy agreed with her. I know what I saw, it was a person standing there but my parents couldn’t see her.
    The next morning when I got up I could hear my parents talking downstairs.
    “This stuff happens far too often to be coincidence! It only started after she was born! She’s the reason this is all happening!” I heard my mom yell.
    “Please calm down,” my dad said much softer, “She’s just a child, she can’t help these things. It’s not like she chose to be like this. It’s not like she wanted this, I doubt she even knows about it.”
    “I don’t care if she can’t help it, or if she even knows about it! Let her know she’s a freak! Let her know that she will never be loved, can never be loved! It’ll be impossible for her to live a normal life! I can’t take this! All I wanted was a normal family! A normal child! But no, I get this freak!”
    “Please, not so loud,” my dad said in a quiet shout, “She might wake up.”
    “I don’t care if she wakes up! I don’t care if she knows she can never be loved! It’d be better for her! So that way she won’t have to find out later when people turn on her! She’s not normal! There’s something wrong with her!” after that I heard a sound that sounded like a clap followed by complete silence.
    I took a few steps down the stairs and looked at my mom and dad. My mom had her hand to her cheek and my dad’s back was to me.
    “Don’t ever say that about my daughter,” he said to my mom sounding as if he would hit her, “I swear I’ll-” He stopped short as my mom looked up strait at me. I was so terrified I would be punished for having heard them yelling like that I couldn’t even move.
    My mom turned quickly away and left out the back door. My dad came up the stairs toward me. I looked up to see him walking up to me and my first thought was that he was going to hurt me or something because I heard something I shouldn’t have. I ran as fast as I could back into my room and shut the door as fast as I could. Suddenly all the furniture in the room looked as though it was being thrown at the door to block it.
    “It’s okay. I won’t let them hurt you,” I heard a voice from behind me say so quietly I could barely hear it. I wanted to turn around but was to terrified to. I felt a hand lightly touch my shoulder.
    “W-who are you? W-why are you in my room?” I barely managed to say in under a whisper.
    “My name? It’s been so long since I have had to introduce myself,” she paused.
    My dad was banging on the door, “Silaina! Who are you talking to?! Open the door right now! Please!”
    “I won’t let him hurt you,” she repeated.
    I felt someone hug me around my shoulders then. Then I heard a voice that sounded similar to the other one say, “You know Analice, it’s rude not to introduce yourself.”
    I turned then, and I was face to face with the girl who had knocked over my bookcase the night before. She had very white skin, it looked as though it was glowing, and blue eyes that looked like crystals, and long straight jet black hair.
    “And my name is Alice,” she pointed at the other girl, “And she’s my older sister, Analice.”
    I looked up at Analice and she looked like a taller version of Alice. Both were very pretty, like dolls, but really the word I should use for them is terrifying. They remained silent as if they expected me to say something else.
    “Silaina, please. Let me in,” I could hear my father plead from the other side of the door.
    “Do you want him in here?” Analice asked me.
    “Yes. Please let him in,” I told her and she removed the furniture from in front of the door.
    The door suddenly opened and Analice disappeared, but Alice stayed there. “He can see Analice but he can’t see me. I’ll stay here and protect you, so don’t worry.”
    “Silaina! Who were you talking to honey? What’s wrong? Come here, I promise I won’t hurt you or anything. I just want to give you a hug.” He kneeled down so he was closer to eye level with me.
    “Don’t do it. He’ll run you out as he did to your mom,” Alice told me, and I believed her.
    “No. You’re lying,” I said as took a step closer to Alice, “You’ll hurt me,”
    “Honey, I would never hurt you. You know that.”
    “That’s what you told mom,” I found myself speaking the words Alice told me to speak, “You’ll do the same to me as you did to mom! Get away from me!” I could hear myself yell at him, “I hate you! You’ll just use me and hurt me and make me run away just like mom! You don’t even care about me! Leave me alone!”
    “If that’s the way you feel then,” He said to me as he got up off of his knees, “I guess I’ll just have to hope you’ll forgive me. I only did that to protect you. I just want you to know that.”
    “Really, such lies, to your own daughter. How can you live like that?” I heard Analice speak behind me. I could tell my dad was looking straight at her but he didn’t say anything.
    “By the way I’ll be working more that your mother left.” He began out the door, “I just thought I’d let you know that.”
    As soon as he shut the door I turned to Alice and yelled “Hey! You didn’t have to talk for me! I can talk on my own perfectly fine! And now look how upset you made Daddy!” Suddenly one o my books flew up into the air and hit the wall hard enough to leave a small hole where the binding hit.
    “You dare yell at me again and that will be aimed at you.” Alice said to me sounding much older than before. “You have already almost signed yourself over to us. All you have to do is draw your own blood and we’ll all be set. You won’t have to deal with your dad, we’ll be stronger, and we’ll be able to protect you better.”
    “What if I don’t want to do that though?” I asked with a quivering voice.