novelxo Chapter 1: Prologue
In These Eyes
In my life, I have learned that the eyes yield many secrets. Some of those secrets are grand and waiting to be told to the world,
while others are ugly and sinful; to be locked away where no one could ever reach them. Then there are those secrets that some
people say are so forbidden, so untouchable, that even the soul shutters every time it recalls them.
So, where does a woman like me begin? From the beginning, I guess. When I was five, in these eyes, I saw my father bring
home our very first television. When I turned ten, these eyes watched as my grandmother's coffin was being lowered into the
ground. When I was sixteen, these eyes saw my three sisters get kicked out of the house on the same day. When I was...twenty,
my eyes saw another pair of eyes. They came home one day, and never really left.
Those same eyes followed me. I fell in love with those eyes, until... Up until that night, these eyes saw something else. In these
eyes of mine, I came to the conclusion that everything in my life is trivial, and nothing else really matters. For in these eyes, the
god in the sky showed me something. In these eyes, he allowed me to see what my life was truly worth. If only the world could
truly see what these eyes of mine got a chance to see then perhaps they would realize just how inconsequential their own sorry
lives really are.
In these eyes of mine, these two, delusional eyes of mine, I watched that man of mine. I watched that man do something that my
eyes will forever hold on to. I cannot close these eyes. No matter how hard I try, I just cannot shut these eyes of mine. I dare not
tempt the fate that awaits me with a salivating breath.
I cannot rest, I cannot sustain myself, I cannot die; these eyes will not allow me to do so. In these eyes of mine...I have crossed
Hell's threshold, and I cannot turn around.