A River of Tears

By Darcy Nussey

Prologue

Everyone this may concern,

I have always been your typical rich girl on the outside; inside, however, I am a normal girl screaming to get out, bleeding with the agony of being locked inside my body, a body that will not contain me any longer. You seemed to force me kicking and screaming inside myself, as though I were a caged animal; but you see I never wanted to become a nice mannered girl, a role model you would say, a snob others would say, all I wanted was to be normal. I thought surely that now I am eighteen you would let me make my own decisions, but no you encaged me even more, if that is possible. I do not want you to be blamed it is mostly my fault; I should have had a civilised conversation with you. But I did not do that and now I am writing this to you, who would have thought it would get so bad that I would choose the coward’s way out?

Crystal x