Forever Your's

It only took my mother a few minutes to locate one of the many light sticks I got them for the performance; she turned it on giving us a little brightness in the eerie dark that surrounded us. My father patted my knee reassuringly, knowing I was already spooked, and as we parted for the night, I was able to keep the night stick after they had gone to their room. I walked slowly out into the hallway and bee lined it straight for my room. When I got in my room I ran straight to my room and changed into my pajamas. I walked out into the living room again to grab my phone, with seeing that face and then the thing with the power, I was not sleeping without it. I held my hands tight on the light stick. ‘What if I see the face again’ I thought shaking with the feeling of no longer being alone
Hearing a noise behind me I spun to face the same person that I had seen outside of my window. Only this time, He was inside of my room- With me! I was so startled that I couldn’t do anything except stand there, panting in fear, he said four words to me: “It is time, Persephone.” I shut my eyes and began to scream in absolute terror. I did not see the lights flicker back on. My mother and father charged into the room, I looked around to see that he was gone, but I hadn’t imagined him right? He was real wasn’t he? “ Ji-eun what’s wrong?” my father asked eyes wide in alarm at my scream. I explained about the man and the words he had said. “Why did he call me by that name?”my father’s turned pale and he motioned for me to sit in the chair at my desk.
As I sat, legs still rubbery from the encounter, my father took a deep breath and said, “Ji-eun, your real name is Persephone. We are your foster parents. This is going to be a little hard for you to take in, but it’s all the truth that I will tell you, now I’m going to tell you about your father and mother,” I stared at them in shock and disbelief. All these years, and they weren’t my real parents??