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Date Posted: 20:11:36 07/08/02 Mon
Author: Megan
Subject: Sits carefully
In reply to: Briar 's message, "Nods..." on 12:26:32 07/08/02 Mon

She sits carefully in the old building and looks up into Briar's curious eyes. *Should I tell him?* She thinks to herself. *Is it safe?* She decides to take the chance and tell him her troubles.
"It's my father." She begins. "Well, no, it's more my mother, I suppose. Or at least, this all happened becasue of her..." Then, thinking he would take that the wrong way, she said, "Oh, she was wonderful, very nice, but a few days after my 16th birthday, she..." She stoped, the tears coming back. "She..She commited sucicide..." She wiped her eyes. "I still don't know why she did it. Maybe it was father. I think he may have beaten her without my knowing, but I can't be sure. I was, ans still am, so, so, sad...but sad isn't strong enough...I meiss her so much...On my birthday, before she...did it, she had this potrait done of me, as a present. I still have it." She pulls out the portrait. She is suddenly afraid. Afraid of everything, her father, this place, Briar. But now that she had started, she can't stop. She needs to get the whole story off her shoulders. She puts the painting away and continues. "Anyway, about 24 hours after my mother...passed away, my father went kind of crazy. He had never really been nice before, but he was never like this." She remembers the day when he changed, and the tears flow stronger and her words become somewhat slurred. She is not really aware of Briar anymore. She is lost in memories. "He tried to kill me, with a crowbar, tried to slam me on the head with it. I kept asking him what I could do to make him stop. I was so afraid. Suddenly, he stoped and wraped me in his arms, kissed my head and stared to cry. He told me that he didn't know what to do, that the love of his life was gone. My mother had provided the money for the family and now we would have no income. He said to me, 'Please...Go and marry...mary a rich man...it will be easy...you are so pretty, my daughter...' and then he went crazy again, yelling, 'GO MARRY!! MARY THE RICHEST MAN ALIVE!! If you ARE NOT MARRIED IN A YEAR, I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND KILL YOU!! I WILL!!' And I know he will! He has strange magic that can help him find me! I ran, so frightened. I have been running for days and now I'm here. I'll never find a husband, but if I don't he'll come here and kill me..." She stops completely, not able to speak anymore. She sobs uncontrolably, making a small puddle on the ground.

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