Kaitlyn
 

     Growing up, our parents always tell us to never take candy from strangers and never trust the strange man with the puppy because that's how you get kidnapped.

     I'm sure whenever you hear this you think oh my god, do they think I'm stupid? What idiotic kid  follows some stranger to their car alone? Well, congratulations, you've found the kid that took candy from strangers.

     When it happened, I was just four years old, and I was at the park with my parents playing hide-and-seek. That was the day my world went to hell.

Sometimes I can still feel the cold floor of the
truck they took me in, I can hear my own screams as I'm torn from my parents, and I can see the look on my mom's face as they speed away. I can still remember Rosalie telling me to be brave. Or Beatrice's face as she died and no one did anything to stop it.

     There were good moments too though, that almost make all my suffering seem worth it, like when I finally got to feel Jace's lips on mine for the first time, or when I met the best friends I've ever had. All I have to do is close my eyes and think about it, and it all comes rushing back. The good and the bad.