She closed her eyes and focused hard on her breathing, hoping that the sound of her parents fighting would fade away. However, it didn't. Her father was screaming, telling her mother that she was nothing without her father.

A few hours later, Alena woke up from yet another nightmare. She wiped a tear from her right eye and blinked a couple of times. She looked across the room at her alarm clock which read 3:30 AM. She groaned loudly and sat up in her bed.

She swung her legs off the side of her bed and stood up, stretching her limbs before making her way towards her bathroom and brushing...