I felt the room close in on me. It felt so fast and slow and painful.

I ducked my head under the covers of my bed as if they could shield me from the monsters that awaited me.
I cried until the sheets had absorbed my very last tear and I was breathing in recycled air.
The noise that protruded and polluted my mind was none other than my very own kin.

He sickened me with the slightest look or movement and frightened me with every strike he threatened to make.
And although his public veil of graciousness fooled the faces he surrounded himself with, they he could not and would not fool me.
I was the only one who had managed to permanently unmask him to see the true horror he brought into my world.

It saddens me that he had to ruin life for me, but at the same time it leaves me grateful that no one else would have to endure the same pain.