Prologue

have patience

I looked out from the window in my attic. It was raining out side, it started out as a light rain but was soon becoming harder and harder. As the drops turned from pink, pink, pink to not being able to decipher one rain drop to the next I closed the curtain on the giant window and walked away.

 

I looked in my walk in closet. It had slash mark from every day I had been here. I added today’s mark, without counting I knew I had been here for 1437 days…almost four years. I sighed almost four years without ever taking a step off this secluded property.

 

It wasn’t a bad place for me. I got everything I ever wanted; all I had to do was ask. It was a big house and a very old one so I was always find secret hide-a-ways and tunnels. Well, I thought they were secret, but I knew that Jasper knew all of them. He pretended to be excited none the less when I told him that I found a new one.

 

I had a special teacher that taught every day so that I could finish high school. He knew everything and was the best teacher a student could ever want, though I’ve never seen him in real life and I couldn’t tell him anything personal, not even gender or age or my name. He just teaches me via internet.

 

Jasper was good to me too. He was kind and tended to me every need. Even if I had a tiny little paper cut he would drop everything and come to help and comfort me. I’ve always thought that weird, especially since he’s the one who captured me.

 

Yes, I said captured. My name is Alice Stone. I’m 17 and I’ve been kidnapped by a serial killer and have been kept in this house for a long, long time. Oh yea, one other thing he’s in love with me, he’s been 27 for over 300 years because he’s a vampire.