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i don't like talking about my childhood

all you gotta know is that my mom got

hooked on heroin and meth and when i was

12 she brought me to a dark alley where

some sketchy man was waiting for us i

was petrified but then out of nowhere

police arrived and separated me from my

mom they told me that she had tried to

sell me to a drug dealer so she could

get another hit of heroin but i have no

idea if that's true my mom got a 20-year

prison sentence and i had to move into a

children's home you normally don't get

adopted if you are over the age of 10

and it was no different for me but my

streak of bad luck wasn't over yet at

age 16 i was diagnosed with cancer a

harmless one though the doctor said i

shouldn't worry too much because my

chance of survival was over 98

but it still sucked because i was

stationed in a big hospital room with

lots of annoying kids well one day a

well-dressed man came inside followed by

a camera crew he said i am proud to

announce that my company will pay for

all medical bills of these sick kids and

make sure they get the best treatment

possible then he looked around as if he

was searching for something finally his

eyes stopped on me he came over and said

my child what is your name emma please

tell us why you are here i have stage 1

breast cancer that's when another child

screamed yes and she's also an orphan

the man was shocked cancer and an orphan

you poor little girl after a while he

told the cameraman to stop filming then

he asked if i wanted to eat dinner with

him and i accepted

so how is it to live inside a children's

home

it sucks most nights i go to bed hungry

because there isn't enough food around

and some of the kids are extremely

violent i've been beaten up and pushed

down the stairs more times than i can

count i'm sorry to hear that you have

such a difficult life and i know the

offer i'm making you now will come out

of nowhere but do you want to move in

with me i have a nice house and promised

to take care of you well i wasn't sure i

didn't want some old guy to take care of

me it was scary and i wondered if he

would feel the same if i wasn't a pretty

girl but i had checked the guy online he

was a public figure and seemed

reasonably nice so i agreed his house

was just as one expects from a

billionaire beautiful and with taste

however when he showed me my room i was

a bit freaked out

everything was pink and girly looking

was this your daughter's room before

what no

i don't have kids

then why do you have a room in your

house that looks like a 12 year old girl

lives inside

oh um

i told my assistant to furnish this room

i must have forgotten to tell her that

you are already 16 but i like it don't

you

i still wasn't sure if this guy was a

creep or just socially awkward but

anyway there was no question that he

cared about me he had high standards and

when i got home with a d on my exam he

told me that was unacceptable no one had

ever held me up to any standards before

and i didn't want to disappoint him

again so i started studying for school

every day and he also hired me a tutor i

really liked the tutor he was cute funny

and yes already 24 years old we often

talked about topics completely unrelated

to school and one time we were just

about to kiss when the old man walked in

on us and screamed hey you are paid to

help or study take your hands off her

i'm sorry but we were just taking a

short five-minute break from studying

don't lie to me i've been eavesdropping

on youtube for a while and all you've

talked about was celebrity gossip i hate

liars like you you are fired i was

surprised to see the old man so angry

and wondered if maybe he was just

jealous to see another guy flirting with

me it felt like he wanted me all for

himself

however i was so grateful that he

allowed me to live with him that i

didn't dare to question his intent

during one dinner i told him about my

plans on studying cinematography after

high school he liked to hear how

passionate i was and arranged for me to

work for a famous director for a month

that's the privilege you get from having

a billionaire daddy however at bedtime

he always came into my room and said

good night to me and one time he gave me

a good night kiss on my forehead again i

didn't know what to make of it i knew

dads kissed their daughters but we'd

known each other for not even a year

the next morning he apologized though

saying that kiss last night might have

been a bit weird it's just that i'm on

the autism spectrum and don't always

know what's socially normal

oh now it all made sense i said don't

worry i've noticed that you can be

different at times but in a good way

so you liked it the kiss i gave you

oh god what was i supposed to respond it

was such a weird question

finally i said

yeah i liked it i guess it means you

care about me

that's when he took me in his arms and

gave me another kiss

well for my 17th birthday he told me to

invite all my friends for a big party at

his house it was really amazing he even

paid a famous singer to perform a

concert but i think he got envious of

all the attention the singer got and

asked her to leave again to make things

worse i saw him chat up all my female

friends i even heard him say yeah i met

drake once at a club in las vegas i got

his number on my phone why was he trying

so hard to impress my teenage friends he

was a grown man and it seemed so

immature but again he was paying for the

whole party so i didn't complain however

back in school after the weekend one of

my friends told me your dad is so cool i

wish he would adopt me too

yeah he's pretty great can you give me

his number maybe he can give me some

career advice he's so smart you know

was she serious i told her no i won't

give you the number of a 40 year old guy

you sound like you have a crush on him

that's disgusting you are only 17.

oh stop it this guy got you an

apprenticeship with

one of the biggest directors in the

world if you won't give me his number

then it only proves how you want him all

for yourself

at first i thought she was crazy for

accusing me of such a thing but then i

realized something

every evening before the man came home i

quickly went to the bathroom and made

sure i looked good if i wore a blouse i

would open another button and often i

even put on some extra makeup just to

look good for him i started doing this

after he bought me a new car not a super

expensive one but i was still so

grateful that i ran up to him and

thanked and kissed him i could tell how

much he liked it i think he wanted to

spoil me like any dad spoils his

daughter and all i could do in return

was to wait for him to come home after

work look pretty and greet him with a

kiss is that weird

now there is one thing i haven't

mentioned yet one day i accidentally

smacked my elbow against the bathroom

wall and noticed the sound was off it

was hollow i tried to measure the

thickness of the wall and it measured

four feet which was way too much i also

checked the other walls and they were

all the same very thick and hollow were

there secret passages maybe that's how

the old man had eavesdropped on me and

my tutor of course i have seen movies

where you'd take a book out of a shelf

and a secret door would open i thought

for a moment where the entry door to the

secret passages would most likely be and

figured it had to be the old man's

office i felt bad going in there without

his permission but it only took me a few

minutes to find a button under his desk

and just like in the movies a bookshelf

slid to the side i guess rich people

have the money to build such gags into

their houses the floor looked perfectly

clean which meant it had been used and

cleaned recently i walked through the

floor and quickly found a small hole you

could slide open when i looked through

it i could see our living room i became

petrified was there a hole to my room

too or my bathroom what if he had

secretly watched me all this time i

nervously walked on this was the wall to

my bedroom it didn't have a hole but i

could see that there once was one it

must have just recently been sealed with

concrete despite how creepy everything

was i didn't confront the old man about

it i told myself he would never watch me

through the walls because he loves me

and would never hurt me in any way right

i wasn't fully sure but i knew he'd get

upset if he found out i'd search through

his office room

one time he'd bought me a new smartphone

and all i said was a quick thank you

apparently this wasn't good enough for

him i didn't show enough appreciation so

he told me to return it i was shocked to

see him so angry but i knew what to do i

said i'm so sorry daddy and then i gave

him a hug and a kiss

that was enough to change his mood

anyway for my 18th birthday he took me

out into the countryside on a hunting

trip he said he told his assistant to

book us a house but when we arrived it

only had one bed he said i'm sorry i

must have forgotten to tell my assistant

that i'll bring a guest this time i hope

you don't mind sleeping in the same bed

with me tonight i also brought a woody

allen movie with me we could watch it

together but sharing a bed was too much

for me so i told him i wanted to go home

but i flew us all the way out here i

thought you wanted to go hunting with me

now i got angry too because he was

pressuring me into something i didn't

like i ended up leaving while he stayed

but on my way home i received a nasty

message from him on my phone he insulted

me and said i wasn't allowed to stay

another night at his house and that he

wouldn't pay for my college tuition even

though he had promised to do so before

was he really so offended by me not

sharing a bed with him he was so

immature and i was so sad i felt like

i'd lost the only person that i could

rely on but guess what six months

forward after i had moved out of his

house i find out that he is now dating

my ex-classmate the one that was on my

birthday party and asked me the

following day for his phone number so

maybe he is a giant creep after all

please let me know in the comments if

you can make any sense of this