I Was Living A Lie Until I Found A Video From My Childhood

i lived in a castle and i'm not exaggerating it was a literal castle in the south of europe my parents always explained to me that they were descendants of the nobility and that they had inherited a lot of wealth i was quite comfortable i had a massive bedroom with many windows and a balcony which had the perfect view of the ocean it was located in the uppermost part of the castle and if i had been allowed outside i would have seen that it looked exactly like a tower once when i was a little girl my caretaker hannah was reading the story of rapunzel to me and she sighed oh you poor child you're just like her at that age i didn't understand what she had meant at all before i continue please don't forget to like and subscribe if you do you will someday live in your dream house and it will exceed your expectations while growing up i was surrounded by servants who did everything for me they picked out my clothes cleaned my room brought me my meals wherever i demanded them and even attended the tea parties i had with my dolls and teddy bears i had every single thing i ever wanted but i did not have an ordinary life i had never ever left the castle i'd never been to school a park supermarket or even in my front yard it was huge it had been explained to me that i was allergic to a substance outside and that if i stepped foot out of the castle i'd become terribly ill and die i was always filled with envy and sadness when i watched movies about children my age who were able to enjoy their lives and visit exciting places it seemed like i would be stuck at home forever when i was bored with movies i'd get my binoculars and point them out of my bedroom window i'd spy on the people in a nearby town and i watched them go about their daily lives with absolute fascination sometimes they were children playing games or engaging in sports and i felt so alone and sad i'd never even had a friend when i was a teenager i began to question everything and i asked my parents to give me more freedom one night as my parents were preparing for bed i knocked on their door and told them i wanted to talk to them i was watching a movie last night and the characters were able to use the internet can i have an internet connection i said hoping i could make some friends online no you don't need that you have lots of books besides a lot of bad stuff happens on the internet we don't think you should have access to that my dad replied sternly i'm tired of being all by myself don't you think i get lonely sometimes i asked well i've never really thought about it but now that you've mentioned it my dad started can i at least go to school is there nothing i can wear to protect me from this strange substance outside which i'm allergic to i asked no that hasn't been invented yet and it probably never will your condition is extremely rare he replied well can i get into the school building without actually stepping outside you know if they maybe had an indoor garage or something i asked miranda stop it you cannot leave this house period now get out of our room and go to sleep my mom shouted at me can i have a cell phone i asked no they both shouted i stormed off to my room and cried myself to sleep i just wanted an ordinary life and they were making no effort to understand me although i never went to a school my parents paid the best tutors in the country to come to our house and teach me i was learning as much as other high schoolers my age but i still wanted to be in a real school around other people my age i wanted to have friends join clubs go on dates and maybe get drunk i don't know whatever teenagers were doing i found my solace in my library i read at least five books a week and they made me more and more curious about the world outside as my curiosity grew i became more mistrustful of my parents they had never been able to give me any specific details about my condition and whenever i brought it up they simply changed the conversation one afternoon i heard them leave the house i assumed they were going to visit friends i was left alone with the servants who were all busy doing their work i walked into my parents bedroom and started snooping around i noticed that my mom's laptop had been left open and unlocked i started browsing through her folders until i found one titled private i quickly clicked on it and what i saw next surprised me there were thousands of my childhood pictures and you're probably wondering why i thought they were weird a mother should have her child's baby picture saved somewhere after all right well the strange thing about these pictures is that they were all taken outside there were several pictures of me playing with children at the playground swimming in a lake running through a meadow and eating at a restaurant what the heck i thought now before i continue i must let you know that i don't remember anything that happened before i was five years old i never knew why all the baby pictures my parents had ever shown me had been on me inside of our house i continued to browse i stumbled upon a video i clicked and watched myself playing in our backyard happily i was laughing and running up and down like it was the best day of my life how is this even possible i asked myself i opened another video and it looked as if i were in a park i was playing games with some other children and we were all jumping and having a great time i heard a wrestling sound downstairs so i closed all the files and left the room like nothing had happened the next day i decided to confront my parents after breakfast just before they left for work mom dad what have you been hiding from me i asked what do you mean sweetie my mom replied yesterday i found many pictures and videos on your computer all of them were of me as a child and i was outside i said they looked shocked well my mom started i want the truth i shouted i'm so sorry miranda we did this to keep you safe my mom said we never told you this before because we didn't want to freak you out you are not allergic to anything outside we made up this lie to make sure you stayed inside my dad continued why i screamed well you know that we have a lot of money which other people envy this has been both a blessing and a curse you were having a pretty normal childhood until we took you to the mall one afternoon you were holding my hand but i felt you let go at one point and when i turned around i couldn't find you anywhere we searched for you for three days with no luck then we got an anonymous call from a man who claimed to have kidnapped you he demanded a two million dollar ransom we rushed to meet him right away and paid him but we couldn't risk letting you leave the house ever again we don't know what you went through these three days without us but we reckoned that it was so traumatizing that we wouldn't want you to remember any of it we acquired some pills illegally which we fed to you they erased your memory little by little until you had no recollection of the kidnapping or life outside of the house we then tried to make your life as amazing as we could right here he said you didn't have to lie to me for such a long time i replied i was fuming i was so angry that i stormed right out of the house on my own they screamed at me and begged me to come back but i pretended not to hear and continued walking i walked until i reached the nearby town the same one i'd always admired while looking through my binoculars as a child it was a surreal experience looking at the cars zoomed by and the people walking in groups talking about god knows what i signaled to a taxi like i had seen people do in the movie he got in and didn't give any directions i just told the driver that i'd tell him when to stop he drove for about 20 minutes then i asked to get off that'll be 15 he said my heart began racing i didn't have any money i'm so sorry i think i forgot my person home i said i expected him to scream at me but instead he said it's okay kid here's twenty dollars go buy yourself something nice i smiled as he drove off i took a note of his license plate i walked around until i approached to school i looked through the window and tried to imagine my life as a normal teenager when i got tired of that i walked until i came across a small convenience store i walked inside and bought a drink and a snack i had never seen before it was the first time in my life i ever spent money on something and it was a thoroughly thrilling experience i was able to pick up a map from the store and i looked at it for somewhere interesting i could go after a few minutes i decided on the zoo which was only a few blocks away i followed the map and when i reached there i paid the small entrance fee and went in apart from my pet cat emily i had never seen any other animals up close as i walked around i found all the creatures so fascinating but still they made me very sad the most depressing experience was watching a little koala bear stuck in a glass cage he looked lonely and sad to be confined in such a small space i realized that we actually had a lot in common just like him i had been stuck for a long time i will free you someday i whispered i left the zoo in low spirits and found another taxi to take me home i tried my best to explain the directions then fell asleep miranda i woke up to the sounds of my parents shouting at me i saw my dad pay the taxi driver and my mom dragged me out of the car what on earth were you thinking how could you do something like that anything could have happened to you she said don't you ever do that to us again or we'll lock you up and never let you out of this house again said my dad gosh they've become such monsters i thought my parents were upset with me for a few days after that but i was able to negotiate with them so that i could be allowed to leave home once in a while i had to be accompanied by two strong bodyguards who were not allowed to let me out of their sight i told them about the nice taxi driver who had given me money and they sent him one hundred thousand dollars just to say thanks i also managed to convince them to buy that koala bear from the zoo for me i've made him a comfortable home in our massive garden and he's no longer stuck in a cage we're both a little freer now and life is much better but when i'm older i'm going to leave this place for good

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Published: Mon Oct 19 2020