Captured Hearts by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

Sadie

Light filtered through the lace curtains hanging over my windows. I could sleep another four hours, but I had plans today that required me to get up. Cracking open my eyes, I stared at the red numbers of my clock on the nightstand beside my bed. They were blurry and became clear after a few more seconds.

6:29 a.m.

I had one more minute before the alarm went off.

God, that’s torture.

I pushed back the sheets and rolled out of bed. Something on my stomach pulled at the skin and it felt like it was crumbling. I looked down, fingering the clear, caked-on substance on my stomach.

What the hell did I get on me?

Was it icing from a pastry I ate last night before bed? It could have been.

I dropped my hand and silently padded across my bedroom to my attached bathroom. Raising my shirt, I threw it to the floor, not caring where it landed. After I did my business on the toilet, I turned on the shower and stepped under the spray to clean myself.

It took a lot of energy to bathe or shower. I wasn’t good about personal hygiene, thanks to my mental illnesses. The thought of having to undress, turn on the shower or bath, wait for it to heat up, wash my body, and change into clean clothes exhausted me.

Normal people—neurotypical people—didn’t understand the mentally ill, or as we liked to call it—neurodivergent people. Neurotypical people complained and scrunched their noses at people who couldn’t find the energy to brush their teeth. They’d call us gross while we were hanging on by a thread and one step away from killing ourselves.

Depression is a real thing, Mackenzie. Stop worrying about whether we bathed and focus more on helping us live another day.

The icing on my stomach was a good reason to clean myself today, and I called that a win.

Once done, I stepped out and pulled on my robe, put my soaking wet hair in a towel on the top of my head, and picked out an outfit to wear today.

My parents had unpacked all of my things from the move and put them back in their place, and I was concerned they might’ve seen my toys. Knowing my dad, he probably had thrown them away and deemed them sinful. It didn’t matter that I was nineteen years old; Dad controlled everything because he didn’t want his family to be perceived as immoral. Dad needed everyone to be proper and play their role as a perfect family because a lot of eyes were on us. He was one of the big three who had some control over our small city—Devil’s City—in Missouri. Which was a funny name to call it since it once wasn’t a city that was overrun by Devils.

Devil’s City was closed off from the rest of the state. There were magical wards that protected the perimeter. They were supposed to keep the outside world from coming in and the Devils out for decades. But the wards didn’t do their job.

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