~Eliana~

Life, they say, isn’t a bed of roses. I had never really given that phrase too much thought. Lately, however, I was beginning to understand what it meant. To me, we had always lived well and we could never lack anything. I had thought that I would forever enjoy living like a princess, and I never for once thought that things would someday go haywire.

My family had been thrown into a state of total confusion. Everything had changed, and we weren’t as respected as we used to be. In five days, everything we had ever known as happiness had been taken away from us. I should have known...