Chapter 1

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I'm running away from something I just can't tell what I'm shivering and scared and just don't know what to do . I wake up in a pool of sweat. I'm happy to be awake I've been having that dream for weeks now. It's started to become very Annoying. I can't tell why I've been having this dream for weeks now I don't know if its trying to tell me something. But I can't think about my dream now I have to summon Emily so she can get me breakfast.  Did I mention that Emily is my servant. Yes I know surprising but my father is a very wealthy man and this 1896. But any ways I have to hurry to get ready because we are going to my cousin. My father made a big deal on how I need to see what a established home with a man and a wife looks like. And my father is all to excited to see that I don't want to go.

As we ride along in the carriage my father is talking about how long it's going to take to get there. When suddenly the carriage tips I don't know what to do. My father is nocked out laying next to me. I'm absolutely terrified Im frozen with shock .When suddenly I start to go unconscious.

I wake up were am I. Then Suddenly someone shouts she's up. Suddenly my father comes bursting into the room. He asking me if I'm ok or if I'm hurt. I'm to dazed to say anything. I finally muster up the strength to say where am I. When my father shouts "she's alright" father say it's ok don't worry we're at cousin leanne's. Very shortly she comes in the room. "Clarissa I'm so glad that your ok" Leanne says. Still something just seems off about this whole thing. Why did we crash and why does my dad not seem more worried.

Ill have the seem stresses make you another dress because that one is ruined say Leanne as she shows me to my room.she seems very quiet like she is surprised to see me.

Once I'm in my room alone I can finally relax. I just don't feel right about this whole situation. Something just doesn't feel right. Just then a maid nocked on my door and comes in with a dress in her hand and tells me it's time for dinner.

When I come in I can tell Leanne is trying to impress my father. Mainly because the feast is just extravagant. There already sitting down with only one spot left for me next to my father. When I see what's out on the table it's amazing exotic fruits all kinds of meats the most exquisite tasting wine. But after seeing all the food the rest of the dinner was such a drag. All my father wanted to talk about was Leanne's  and Christopher's marriage.

Finally we get on another topic but the other topic is me. And how my father is trying to find someone fit for me to marry. Because it is almost my eighteenth birthday. "I remember when your mother was this age" says Leanne. Suddenly my father is all quiet the color drained out of his face. Leanne sees this and she quickly says "sorry Robert I didn't mean to bring it up" it's alright says father he asks to be excused. The dinner quickly fell as a happy one to an awkward one. Leanne quickly says to me in a whisper "I didn't mean to bring up her disappearance"

What happened to my mother was she disappeared when I was five. My father sent out his best men to try and find her. They never found a trace. I've came to a agreement with the pain of her being gone my father has not.

I'm in my room now and I just cannot fall asleep. This place is just to unfamiliar. I decide to go look around . I walk towards the dining room. When I here hushed voices. I follow it it leads to a door. The door is open a crack it's my father and Leanne. "What are you so worried about Robert it's supposed to skip over Clarissa's generation" Leanne says
"But what if I doesn't" says my father
"Calm down Robert it's impossible for it to happen to Clarissa" Leanne says
"You better be right" my father says
"If it was supposed to happen it would have happened to day in the accident" Leanne says.
Why are they talking about me. What skipped over my generation I need to find out.

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