"No not at all" Daphne says to him as he walks inside the room. The man takes a chair from the table and sets it near the bed and sits on the chair. I'm pretty sure they are going to ask me questions and I don't know if I want to answer them.

"Let me introduce myself. I'm James" The man says, introducing himself. They are so kind to me and I don't deserve this kind of kindness.

"Why am I here? And where am I?" I ask them. Daphne looks at James and he nods his head at her like they were talking in their minds or something but that is impossible. Daphne takes a deep breath before starting to talk.

"Eliza, you are in my castle and you are here because you don't deserve to be treated like that, no one does" Daphne says, her voice is soft and is above a whisper. I could still hear her. She is wrong, I do deserve all of that punishment. Why go through all of this trouble to save me from everything that I deserve.

"Wait, did you say castle?" I ask them with a serious look saying that if this is a joke then stop joking. I don't know if they are telling the truth or not but I need to trust them since they are helping me which I don't understand why. Somehow I feel like I can trust them, I have always been told never to trust a stranger but I don't feel like they are strangers, like I have known them my whole life but how? How do I feel like I do and want to trust them even when I don't know them?

"Yes this is a castle" James tells me, confirming her words. I don't know if they are telling the truth or not, I mean how the hell are we in a castle. If it is true and if we are in a castle then, are they royalty or something? They can't be royal or can they? I guess I will never know right?

"I'm guessing you have a lot of questions to ask us but for now you need to see a doctor" Daphne says in a soft voice, I have to admit that I enjoy hearing her soft and kind voice. It's good to hear her voice and when I hear it I feel like she can calm me down even in my darkest days and my dark days are almost every day. Wait she said that I need to see a doctor?

I'm kind of afraid to go see the doctor, I don't feel comfortable to have someone look at my scars. Just like the doctors when I was in the hospital. I could see how they were judging me and my scars and my wounds. I don't want people to judge me, I've had so many bad experiences with it.

"Then what are we waiting for?" I say, my smile is as fake as the false diamond someone believes is real. Looks normal, yet isn't. I stand up from the bed but as soon as I'm on my feet I feel dizzy. I'm about to fall down to the floor but James catches me before I hit it. This is the second time he has saved me and I think he enjoys saving me. But lets not make it a habit.

"I think it's better that I carry you, if it's ok with you, of course" James says. I'm standing straight but I have to hold into him to not fall down again. My feet are killing me, all I feel is pain and pain through-out my whole body. I think it's better that he carries me to the doctor, that is one thing for sure and he is going to carry even if I would say no so I don't really have a choice, do I?

I quickly nod my head, I can't find the right words to say. He picks me up bridal style. I feel weak so I rest my head in his chest. When I'm in his arms I feel somehow protected like nothing can hurt me and I kinda like it. He walks through many halls, they weren't kidding when that said this is a castle. This is indeed a castle and a beautiful one to. It's a old fashion castle and the Victorian style shines through.

He opens a white door that has hand carved old patterns on it and walks inside, with me in his arms. He puts me down on the bed and a woman walks inside the room. I'm guessing she is the doctor, I thought the doctor would be male but it's better to have a woman.

"I'm Emily, I'm going to be your doctor" The woman says in a cheerful tone. Emily nods her head at James and he somehow understood it and walks out of the room. Emily seems nice but I can't trust someone I just met. Some people only let their true colors show when you've gotten to know them. Like The Four Wonders.

"I'm going to do some test on you but don't worry, it won't hurt you. Just sit there and relax" Emily says as she starts doing some test on me.

After Emily did all sorts of test on me she puts a cream in my back where my father whipped me. I didn't say a word to her but she tried to talk to me, then she gave up when she realized that I didn't want to have a conversation with her. It's not that I don't like her, it's just I'm not a trusty person and the fact that she has seen my scars is a big deal for me. Soon she was done and James comes inside and picks me up bridal style again. Emily gives him pills that I need to take every day to take away the pain but I really don't want to have the pain removed. I want to feel pain, they are taking the one thing that I feel and I want to feel pain. I don't really feel happiness anymore so pain is the only way I can feel something, even if it hurts me.

James takes me back to the room I woke up in but now I see the doors from the outside and they look different from the outside then the inside. I saw on the doors that my name was written on it in a blue color and the door was also wooden with these strange carvings like most of the doors, it's clear that they are handmade. For they look far to old for any machine to have done it.

He opens the door and walks inside. He puts me on the bed where I was when I woke up this morning or was it noon, I don't what the time was when I woke up but I guess that doesn't matter right now. He sits on the chair that he was sitting on before.

"You have a lot of questions for me and my mother Daphne so ask me anything you want to know and I will answer" James tells me. My head is full of questions and I don't know how to start. There are so many of them.

"How are we in a castle?, who are you?, why did you save me?, why are you so kind to me?, how do you look the same age as your mother?, what was the meaning of the story Daphne told me? And why is my name on the door?" I ask, and when I'm done I realize that I'm out of breath. I didn't ask much but this is the things that I want to know but there will be more questions but I don't want to be rude by asking to many questions.

"This is an old castle that belongs to my family, I'm just a normal man who lives in an old castle nothing special, saving people is what I do, you deserve to be treated with kindness not hatred like that family treats you, she had a surgery that made her younger than me but she is older than me, the meaning of the story is that everyone deserves to be happy, even the moon has found someone to love, your name is there because this is your room and you can live here if you want" James says answering all of my questions. I opened my mouth to say something but before I could say something he cut me off.

"I will answer more questions tomorrow but for now you need to rest" James tells me. He walks to the closet of the room and takes out pajamas, he walks to me and hands them to me. They were beautiful, the shirt is light blue with sleeves that covers my scars and the pants were light blue. I thank him for the pajamas and he leaves the room, obviously to give me some privacy to get dressed, I'm not really comfortable in this dress. Even if it is beautiful. I get dressed in the pajamas and they are really comfy. I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes.

•

"WAKE UP YOU PIECE OF TRASH!!!" My father yells at me to wake me up. I had fallen asleep while he went to eat lunch. He walks to the wall where the whips are he takes one and walks back to me holding his favorite whip because he knows that this one hurts me the most.

He starts whipping me really hard even harder than the last time he whipped me. I screamed at him to stop but he just kept going on and on. The pain increases, and its pure agony.

"W-why are you d-doing this" I whisper, through my tears with fear in my voice. I'm so afraid of him now, I know I'm loosing a lot of blood I can smell it and see it but I can't see how my back looks like but honestly I don't want to know how my back looks like. My father stops whipping me and puts the whip on the table nearby.

"You don't know the truth dearie. You see I'm not your father, your father abounded you and my wife took you in because she felt pity for the baby that no one wanted and that was a mistake. No one will ever love you, your parents never wanted you. My wife was stupid to take the trash to me, to make me deal with you. Do you think I wanted you? No I don't, I don't understand why you haven't killed yourself already, you are just a waste in the world" My father says with a wicked grin and he takes the whip again and starts whipping me but now this time only harder. He told the truth I'm nothing and I deserve to die. I can't understand why they never told me the truth that my biological parents gave me up. I really hope he kills me to end my worthless life. I feel so empty and all alone, no one wants me here.

•

"Eliza, wake up, it's alright. Just a nightmare" I wake up by Daphne's soft and soothing voice. I'm freaking out, this is haunting me so much. I can still see his face when I close my eyes and the whip is in his hands.

"Shh, it's ok just go to sleep" Daphne whispers. I try to go to sleep but I can't, I can hear my heartbeat and I think she can hear it to. I can't slow my breathing, it's too fast, I can't calm down, not after this. She starts to sing the most beautiful lullaby I have ever heard.

Soon I close my eyes hearing Daphne's singing voice. While listing to her singing to me I feel relaxed, for once in my life I feel safe, like I belong.

I wake up by the sun shining in the window that blinds my eyes and takes me out of my sleep. Memories from last night come flashing in my mind, I just want to die to end this all that is all that I want to do now. I remember the lullaby that Daphne sang to me, the song was relaxing and the song was about the moon. It's like she is trying to tell me something about the moon that I don't know. Or maybe she just loves the moon and I got to admit that the song she has sang to me is really beautiful, and the story too.

My thoughts are interrupted when a knock on the doors is heard. I get out of the bed and walk to the door. I can walk now and that is better than being carried around like a doll or a helpless rag. I'm not saying I didn't like being carried around I just want to do everything by myself, I have done it almost my whole life so I'm just use to it by now. I open the door and the person who was knocking is a girl wearing a black dress with a little white in it, a maid dress. She has blonde hair and wears it in a ponytail, she has brown eyes that sparkle in the sun.

"Can I help you?" I ask the girl. I fake smile at her but she buys it and smiled back at me. She looks friendly but I'm not ready to have a friend, I have enough problems dealing with Jack when he really wants to be my friend which I don't want to if course. Thinking about Jackson makes me wonder how he is, I hope he has forgotten about me again, that would be better for both of us. I mean, I have fallen for him again and he deserves a better girl than an ugly, fat bitch, which is me.

"Miss Eliza, I'm Alex, your maid" The girl tells me. She is holding on a tray filled with food and I let her inside the room. Alex puts the tray on the table and she tells me to eat the food, as it is my breakfast. This is a lot of food and I'm not sure if I can eat it all, if I'm going to eat. I'm not hungry so I don't want to eat this all. I have never had this much food and it can only make me fat and that is something that I do not want.

"Just call me Eliza" I tell her. Alex nods her head. Tho I don't want to be rude so I eat some food that is on the tray. While I'm eating Alex makes my bed and takes out a dress for me to wear today then she says that she is going to wait for me outside of the room.

I'm done eating what I wanted to eat which wasn't much but I did eat something from that tray, I don't want to be a rude guest. I walk where Alex had put the dress and it was beautiful white dress with light blue flowers and long sleeves.

I put my hair into a braid like I always have my hair in. I go to the bathroom and I see a lot of make up stuff there so if I'm starting to wear dresses, I can start using make up as well. I put in a black mascara and pink glitter eye shadow and a pink lip gloss. Now I'm ready to go. At least I look a bit better. I walk out of the room and I see Alex, she wasn't kidding when she said she was going to wait for me.

"Eliza, follow me to the throne room" Alex says. Wait, did she just say a throne room? I follow Alex, thinking about this throne room. I thought throne rooms were only for royalties but that can only mean that they are royal. That makes so much sense the castle, the food, the clothes and the maid. There is still one thing missing and that is why James didn't tell me he was royalty. He had the perfect opportunity to do so yesterday.

Alex stops at a large door that two guards are standing in front of, they are dressed in armor and the expression on their faces is emotionless. They open the door and let me and Alex inside then close the door behind us. I see that James is sitting on the throne like a true king. I don't know if I would be afraid, happy, upset, angry, or just showing no emotion, this is far too confusing for me. James stands up from the throne he was sitting on and walks to me.

"I know you are confused but don't be" He only says. I think I'm not going stop being confused, I just want to know the truth, I don't know why but somehow I just have to know the truth and besides I hate when people lie to me. He nods at the guards that are standing randomly in this room and Alex and they leave the room without hesitation.

"Now we can talk in private" He says. I just keep quiet, I don't know if there is something to talk about and I don't have something to say to him or at least not now but I'm pretty sure he has some explaining to do. He is standing in front of me. The doors open once again and a woman walks inside, I have never seen this woman before but somehow she looks familiar to me but I can't put my finger on it. This only brings up more questions that I need answer for.

She is wearing a black and pink dress that goes down to the floor, black high heels with diamond flowers on it, her blonde hair in a braid then wrapped in a bun. A silver necklace with pink diamonds hangs around her and earrings that match and last of all silver crown with diamonds. She is beautiful. She's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life.

"It's nice to finally meet you Eliza I'm queen Clara, James wife" The woman says calmly. So this is all real, James is a king and she's a queen. Then why would a king save me? Did he tell her he saved me? Great now more questions swirl in my head and I want answers for all of these questions, yet I don't get them.