“It’s not like we may very well be collectively.” I shrug.

“Why not?”

“Since you’re you and I’m me.”

“What’s that presupposed to imply?”

I flip to have a look at him, and he stands there, arms dangling by his sides and a glance of concern etched on his face.

“Take a look at us, Puck. You’ve got a complete life forward of you. You’ll be able to exit, meet folks, have new experiences, discover the world. I can’t try this. I’m caught right here, and that is all I’ll ever be.”

I realise how dramatic I sound, but it surely’s true. I’ll by no means be allowed to go away right here, besides in loss of life, perhaps.

“Bonnie, you’re not caught. We will-”

However I reduce him off, as a result of no matter he says gained’t change my actuality.

“Sure, I’m. Nobody is aware of I exist!”

I’m shouting now, and tears are pouring down my cheeks. It’s not Puck’s fault, however I do know that it doesn’t matter what occurs, nothing can ever transcend the grounds of this mansion. Daddy simply merely wouldn’t permit it.

“They are going to, Bonnie. If we simply give it time, we can-”

“I DON’T HAVE TIME!” I shout, throwing the clock in opposition to the wall and watching it shatter on the bottom. “I don’t get time to fulfill folks. I don’t get time to wander free. I don’t get time to develop outdated and have a household and see the world. All I’ve time for is you and King and Dax and these 4 partitions.”

Puck steps towards me, crunching a few of the plastic of the clock on his means.

“Bonnie, it doesn’t must be like that. We will run away.”

I giggle bitterly. I could be sheltered and younger, however I’m not that naïve. Operating away isn’t that straightforward, it by no means is. There isn’t a life for me outdoors of right here.

“We’re not Peter Pan and Wendy, Puck. There isn’t any Neverland. There isn’t any second star on the fitting.”

“We will make one.”

I drop to the ground, pulling my knees up and burying my head.

“Daddy would by no means permit it.”

I ponder what my daddy would do if I left. Would he chase me? Seize me and convey me again? Would he act like I by no means existed, which he does anyway, and simply let me be free? If it have been that straightforward, I’d have performed it by now, proper?

However even when he did let me go, I’d by no means cease wanting over my shoulder, ready to be dragged again to actuality. My precise actuality.

After a couple of seconds of brutal silence, Puck’s voice echoes round me.

“I don’t care what Carlo thinks. I don’t care what he permits. He doesn’t get to do that to you, Bonnie.”

“He can, and he’ll.”

“While you’re eighteen, then you possibly can depart. He’ll don’t have any proper to maintain you right here.”

“After all, he’ll. He’s my dad.”

Puck drops down subsequent to me, cradling me in his arms like he’s performed many instances, used to my tears dampening his high.

“That man isn’t any father to you, Bon. A father is meant to like and care and shield their youngster, not do the exact opposite.”

And regardless that I do know it’s true, it makes me sob louder. As a result of all I’ve ever needed is the love and love from him.

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