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THE SHADOW'S HEART
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Chapter 1:


i had that dream about my earliest memory again. it is odd that i could remember something from when i was two but i do and that is all i can say.The memory is from my eyes of course and i am sitting in my crib that had been hand made by father. he has carved every animal he knows into the wood and i in my curiosity run my tiny hands over the engraved lines that make the animals. i do this for about two hours or so then i look over hearing my mother come in. she is smiling a warm smile towards me as her auburn hair flows when she leans over the crib to see me. i laugh and smile back at her with only makes her smile grow. she is about to pick me up when i see my dad with his short spiky black hair walk in. his expression is scary and it makes me want to cry but before i do he yells something. my mother turns around and says something back. dad yells again and points at me. mom yells this time and puts her hands out in a protective manner. my dad says something in a low voice and it makes mom shake. then i see he grab a pair of scissors and rushes my dad with them. he shoots hitting mom as she drives the scissors into them. they both stand still then, together, they fall down and right as i start to cry i wake up from the dream in a cold sweat. he sigh knowing it has only been an hour since i went to sleep. the pill i took only makes me sleep that long and to be honest i hate taking them. my grandmother makes me take at least one once a week because she doesn't understand i am fine with my insomnia. But she didn't listen and went out of her way to get me the pills that allow insomniacs to sleep. since she got them for me i decided i would take them when she gave them to me luckily she thought one let me sleep for the whole night but the bottle clearly says "one pill equals one hour." but the fact that my grandmother cannot read English leans in my favor for this one thing. my grandma, lee-may vielgray, is Japanese and she never learned english. my grandfather was a war veteran that met my grand mother during the war. he helped take her village from the Japanese soldiers ho had taken it over. my grandma and grandfather said they fell in love at first sight. it was fortunate that my grandfather was the translator of the unit otherwise i don't think they would have lasted this long. you see my grandmother tried to learn and she knows enough English to get around but she never learned to read it which always confused me. when i ask her to learn she jut gets flustered and yells at me in Japanese so after i while i stopped asking.


but i love her and that is one of the reasons i take the pills. i get out of my bed and stretch. i look around my room, that was the basement of the house, and i see the concrete walls with band posters and pictures of things that caught my interests like skulls or grim reapers. my grandparents and me (when i was old enough to choose by my own and had gotten to big to sleep with my grandparents in their room) decided that the basement was a perfect place for a room and since my grandfather had never really used it he didn't mind me making it my room. i walk over to my computer and turn on the modem then the screen. i open up you tube and find a song i like and before i start it i put on my headphones that make me look like a DJ and then put the jack into the modem. then i play the song and go over to some comic and manga sites i like then head to the site i am most addicted to, GAIA. i do my stuff on there and just pass the night/morning changing the songs and just messing around on gaia. when my alarm rings i take off my headphones and pause music. when i get this done i walk over and turn off the alarm after slapping the SNOOZE! button. i get my clothes on that i am gonna were to school, a black t with some black jeans, then head upstairs to see what i can have for breakfast. i walk into the kitchen and open up the fridge then look at it's context. "there is the chicken we had last night, the pasta from the night before and then there is a salad" i tell myself in my mind as i look at the three things that looked appetizing for me at the moment. i decide on the salad since it is already ready to it and i feel lazy. i get a fork and sit down on our comfy couch and turn on our T.V and look around the 500 channels on our comcast and find a movie to watch before i head to school. i watch the movie and eat my salad and then when that is all done i put on a black hoodie and grab my Ipod along with those white headphones they come with. i put it on shuffle then i lock it so it doesn't change the song while i put it in my jean pocket as i sling on my backpack and start walking to my school. it is only two miles away which isn't very far in my opinion. i get there at the same time as my bus and i look at my school. i read the buildings name in my head "Redstone High school" it read. i looked behind me seeing the flood of people get off the bus and head into the school. i sigh and start walking to the school with the intent of putting my backpack in my first period and thus starts another boring school day