1 Chapter 1

Walking through the front door I hear sobbing and rush up to my sister Alice's room. She had been sick for weeks and the one thing I thought would never happen did. I get to the room and see my mother sobbing while holding my sister's hand, she looks at me and says "You where to late like always, you missed her." The doctor puts a hand on my shoulder saying "I'm sorry for your loss" then walks away. So now a week later standing in a black dress I hold my head low as my older sister is lowered into the ground. My heart fills with remorse but the same could not be said for the rest of the family who was only thinking of the money we had potentially lost. Once we got home, he looked at me and my twin sister. "Alright Nora & Lina which one of you are going to take your sisters place in marrying into the Hilton family?" I glared at him "Father she just passed and you're already trying to get one of us to replace her!?" He sighed "Nora you know I cannot lose this money; my business depends on our partnership." Lina smiled "Father I would be glad to take her place unlike my sister who's trying to derive you of your well-deserved wealth" My father smiled "See why can't you be more like her? She is thinking of the future then present" I watched mother walk over to father and put a hand on his shoulder, "Dear don't you think Nora would be a better suiter for him? She is more mature than Lina" Father thought for a second then spoke "you are right about but I don't see her cooperating with it." He looked over at me speaking "Isn't that right Nora?" I just looked at them "Yes! Obviously, I do not want to! I do not like him! I would be ought to be found dead before marrying a man I don't know" My mother sighed "dear why can't you just get over yourself and do it?" I looked at my mother in disbelief before walking up to my room and slamming the door. I sat against it, my knees to my chest. "Sister, why did you have to leave me with these unbearable people?" Soon I got up and got changed, laying on my bed staring at my staring at my ceiling as I grow tired and drift off to sleep. I awoke to my mother barging open the door "Nora come eat" I sigh forcing myself out of bed. I head downstairs going to sit in the dining room. I head to make a drink, but my mother stops me "You make a plate I'll make your drink. I made a tea I want you to try." I look at her for a second "Alright, thank you" I grab a plate before walking to the table and eating. While eating I think 'She never offers to make me anything let alone something for me to try, Why now all of a sudden?' Shaking my head I sigh 'maybe she's trying to be nicer to me' soon my mother came in setting down a cup of tea, I took a sip and gave a small smile. "This is really good" I ended up finishing two cups of tea that mother made. After I cleaning the dishes I headed up to bed, As I lay there, I felt something of unease. I sigh trying to push the feeling away eventually falling asleep. Soon I awoke to a pain in my stomach. I figured I had eaten or drank too much but this pain would not subside no matter how much I tried. After a few days I brought it to my parents' attention, my mother hadn't the slightest concerned as well as my father. My mother suggested waiting for a few more days to see if it would pass and get better. I agreed not wanting to make a fuss over potentially nothing. I made my way back to my room and laid down, my mother brought me some drink saying it would make me feel better. I drank them thinking nothing of it and went back to sleep, but over the next few days my health only got worse. But what tipped them to call the doctor was when I was pale and not eating, But even then it was all because it would look bad if he had two children die in the span of a month. The doctor said he would come to town as soon as he could, in the meantime father came to check in on me once a day. One day he came to me and said "Get better alright? I can't have you dying on me like you're sister." I gave him a nod and tried to speak but I ended up coughing instead. He placed a hand on my head "Don't speak, please" I nodded again, It hurt like hell when I coughed. He gave me some cough medicine before walking away. Weeks went by with no sign of the doctor, my father got precedingly worried while mother said he was overreacting and that I would be fine, It made me happy to see him care though. My sister Lina visited me every now and again, she never stayed long. I remember one day for a minute everything faded away, All the sounds I heard got muffled and the things I saw faded to black. It felt like I was falling asleep except I felt cold inside. When I woke up my father was shaking me, he sighed in relief once I showed signs of waking up. "Please just hang in there Nora, The doctor should be here any day now." His voice sounded so far but soon I blinked as the light was returning to me I groaned a bit at their voices sounding me. Father seem to have felt relieved "we thought we had lost you Nora" I caught only a glance at mother, but she looked displeased in a way like she was hoping I would die. I shook it off, she my mother she would not want me to die, right? Slowly I started making a recovery. No thanks to our doctor who never showed up. All seemed well till I was slowly gaining strength till one day it all came crashing down. The last thing I remember was coughing up blood and collapsing to the ground. My father rushed over carrying me to my room. He placed me on my bed and the last thing I heard was his voice saying "Nora please, I know I've haven't always been here for you but I'm here now so please stay with us..." That is when everything went dark and cold, I felt so much pain, but I could not move, I could not cry, I tried calling for help but no voice came out. I lost track of time after a while but eventually I awoke from the endless void I was trapped in.