oh where is all that light coming from
i wondered i screamed and immediately
slammed the door
after living in an underground mansion
for 15 years
i had come across a trapdoor that led me
to a whole new world
my name is karen or genevieve i'm not
sure which one to use anymore
yeah about that i'll dive in real soon
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just like any other day i woke up and
got started doing my favorite thing
painting my friend coco just watched i
was busy chatting away with her when i
tripped over the edge of a rug
and fell flat on my face i groaned as i
sat up
that's when i saw the rug had moved and
there was a trap door
under it the trap door led to a tunnel
which led to that door i just opened
coco and i stared at each other in shock
it took me a while to open the door
again
we both stepped out into this new world
what is this now
we were so fascinated that we just
started wandering
staring around and wonder i had no idea
how far we'd gone
soon it started to get dark and i felt
scared
at the top of the slope we saw a sea of
glittering lights in the distance
coco pointed towards it and said that's
where we must go
after some time the ground beneath our
feet went from squishy and green
to hard and black suddenly out of
nowhere
a loud speedy metal box with lights
rushed up from behind me
it flashed by us with a loud honk my
heart was pounding
i had no idea what that was i turned
around to go back
but realized in horror that i had no
idea where home was
we had to keep walking towards the
lights it was getting light again by the
time we got there
and i couldn't stop staring at
everything
everywhere i looked i could see
creatures just like me
but they looked weird wearing these
clothes we were afraid
so coco pulled my arm and we ran into
the nearest room and started walking
around
i stared there were shelves and
shelves piled with stuff i had no clue
about but then i saw something familiar
canned food i quickly grabbed a few tins
and we started running out when a man
pointed at me and shouted
stop the little thief someone grabbed me
to make sure i couldn't escape
while another snatched the cans from me
i tried to explain but they all just
looked back at me with stupid
expressions
and soon enough we were getting our
first car ride
to the police station when we got there
the police tried to investigate us but
they couldn't understand
anything we spent that night in a jail
cell and honestly
i felt quite at home in a room with no
windows the next morning
they got us out and we were placed with
the foster family
and that's where i was given the name
karen coco felt really scared and
refused to go to dinner
so i had to go alone the first night
they gave me my plate of food with a
fork next to it
i thought it was odd but i just started
eating with my fingers
when i was about done i looked up and
saw everyone was staring at me
i noticed they were all eating with
their forks we had forks in the mansion
but i didn't know what they were for i
didn't really like being there
my foster dad and brother were mean
the only person who was kind to me was
my foster mom
she taught me to speak and read coco
would go and hide whenever we had our
lessons
i taught her everything i was learning
when we were alone
one night when i thought everyone was
asleep i was teaching coco
when my foster brother walked into the
room he said
who are you talking to freak i could
tell that wasn't a nice word
i stuttered my friend
he let out a cackle of laughter dad
would you come in here and listen to
this
karen has a friend my foster dad walked
in
and when my brother told him what i'd
said they both roared with laughter
the dad said i knew we got a really
stupid one
can we send her back please they both
left the room laughing
and left me feeling humiliated i was
just glad coco had the chance to jump
under the bed
and that night i packed my few things
and we ran away
we ended up living on the streets for a
while which i liked in a way
i was free to do anything and we didn't
have to talk to anyone
we would dig through trash cans for food
and even found some new clothes
i woke up one day to find coco gone she
had this habit of wandering on her own
every now and then
walking around the city i noticed a few
men off in the distance
they were all wearing black and were
crouching down under a bridge
suddenly i started to see bright colors
appearing all around them
like magic oh my god it looked like
paint
and out of cans of all things i wanted
to be a part of it
i ran up to them so excited waving my
hands wildly
but i guess i scared them because as
soon as they saw me
they all ran away i felt a little bummed
but i was happy they left the cans
behind i shook them and fidgeted with
them for a while
then i pushed the top down and sprayed
myself in the face
my eyes my eyes i staggered around for a
few minutes
as soon as my vision cleared i picked up
all the spray cans and hurried away
coco found me soon after and i was so
excited to show
her my new paint cans after a little
testing i managed to figure out how they
worked
and oh boy there was no stopping me
after that
i loved painting with the spray cans it
was so much better than painting with a
toothbrush
then one day as i was painting in a
parking lot
a few guys came up to me looking at
their black paint covered clothes
i realized they were the people i'd
stolen the cans from
i was afraid they'd hurt me for taking
their stuff to my surprise
they spoke to me kindly and said their
boss had been looking for me
up close i realized they weren't much
older than me
their black overalls looked old and torn
just then
a woman walked up behind them she was
the most beautiful creature i'd ever
seen
she smiled and spoke to me so warmly i
would have followed her anywhere
her name she told me was sharon
she said that she was a painter too and
my graffiti
was some of the most beautiful art she
had ever seen
she also told me i could come and live
with her and she would teach me more
as i was about to get into the car coco
tugged at my hand
i don't have a good feeling about this
she whispered
i looked around hoping no one had heard
her i shook her off and climbed into the
car
she didn't budge fine she could find me
when she wanted to
sharon's house was large and beautiful
and i was so happy she'd found me this
new world was turning out to be
a better place than i thought but soon
enough
i started to discover that things
weren't quite right we were put in a
room with a supply of paints and
canvases
i wasn't allowed to leave the house i
soon realized the other artists lived
here too
and no one could leave without sharon's
permission
i was happy to be painting but as soon
as i was done
sharon would carry away my art and i
never saw it again
and she didn't give me enough to eat if
she was really pleased with my work
i'd get half a chocolate chip cookie as
an extra treat
as time went by she became more cruel
she kept pushing me harder and i was
getting so tired
i didn't really enjoy painting that much
anymore if i hadn't done all the work
she wanted
she would shout at me coco was terrified
of her and stayed hidden somewhere all
the time
one night i was really hungry and i
snuck into the kitchen in the dark
i had just taken a big fat cookie from
the jar
when sharon walked in she went totally
berserk and screamed
at me she threw my cookie in the trash
and locked me up for two days with only
a few apples to eat
i was really miserable there but i had
two silver linings in my life
david and billy david was the kindest
man i'd ever met
he was sharon's personal assistant and
he brought us our weekly painting
supplies
i would be sure to have a lovely piece
painted before he came
because he thought i was just brilliant
i just felt warm and fuzzy inside when
he smiled at me
he was nothing like my horrible foster
dad one time when he dropped by
sharon had just half deafened me with
her high pitched screaming because i'd
accidentally spilled a small can of
paint
she had just stormed off when david came
in he said he would clean up
and handed me a bag of cookies he
muttered sharon's a horrible woman
and i hate working for her too i'll get
you out of here one day karen
you just keep up your painting till then
i'll find a way for us both real soon
i felt ecstatic