The It

We had been so perfect. The 2 of us. Back then. Before... It. He had loved me with a deep, burning passion, and I had returned the flame just as strongly. We had shared so many deep kisses and long walks... Just talking. Then, gone. As soon as our romance had begun, it was over. Quicker than I could even register, he was gone. So distant were his eyes that I couldn't even believe that it was the same man I had fallen in love with that short time ago. The It... Was called Sara. It's full name, later to be discovered, was Sarakissihn, given by the dark goddess of the underworld. But he couldn't see beyond the charming looks and fake smiles. It took him under, and broke his spirit like a twig. It ate his very soul, in turn breaking my own soul, by hurting the only one I loved in all the world. Family? I had none. They had abandoned me and died when they found out that I was "gifted". That's what the It called my strange mind-reading powers; "gifts". And he, Josh, had called it unique... At first. When his spirit was broken, and I was trying to mend him, my powers were an "abomination". I cried silent tears that night, as Narisska, goddess of the underworld, and Sara, her minion, snickered through the walls of my mind. Taunting my spirit with harsh words. Tricking me into believing that John was theirs. That he would never again love me, the abomination, ever again. If only I had listened to that feeling, deep in my gut, screaming at me that they were lying. If only...