Run and Don't Look Back (1)

Think of the 'Run and Don't Look Back ()' series as like a separate story on the same timeline explaining a bit of the backstory.

I don't really like it here.

Why is the world so small? I scarcely catch glimpses of the television from the gap between the door.

Ah, I wonder how people in the television feel all day?

Familiar footsteps vibrate the ground beneath me. It's Mom. She opens the door fully and passes me a colourless bowl of mashed vegetables and soup. Her glare towards me is cold and unwelcoming.

I pick up the bowl and slowly consume its contents.

The food tastes bland and unappealing, I wish I got to eat some of the food I see on the television. The food on the television is always so colourful and everyone who eats it looks like they are happy.

I don't know what it felt like to be happy.

I don't know what life is like out of this room.

I take one of the textbooks out from under my blanket, my mom said they were my older sister's past textbooks. My mom always got very angry when I looked at these textbooks, so I hide them under my blanket.

I wonder if my mother will ever let me go outside and play with other children.

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