For Kate, life in the

new City has been somewhat difficult, as a child she grew up in a small

county with not many inhabitants, where the predominant work is raising

animals and farming. But now that she had graduated from college, she

wanted to grow in the workplace, but never imagined that her life would

change so drastically.

It all started on a rainy day ...

It is 5:00 am and the alarm clock rings it is time to get up and

prepare things for work, today is one of the many rainy days that well

characterize the City, but for a young woman who has just graduated and

with two jobs with a minimum wage a rain can only present one more

problem.

Being a low-income girl, moving around in a city under a

rain without a vehicle and only a small umbrella is quite a challenge.

Once

breakfast is ready and everything is ready, Kate goes to work, she is

an assistant in a publishing house, but her dream is to become the best

editor in the City and thus help her family.- "Good morning Kate" - Magy

greets her friend and colleague enthusiastically.

Although Kate

does not know how it is that Magy a tall girl, snowy skin and blonde by

nature, like a girl taken from a magazine cover can be her friend, she

appreciates the fact that she is, it was she who helped her get that job

for to begin and although at the moment she did not have a well-paid

position, Magy had promised to help her in everything so that she could

be promoted to a better position.Magy, is one of the main editors, so

she had enough resources and influence that could well favor Kate to

have a better future in the publishing world.- "Hello Magy, good

morning" Kate replies, although somewhat discouraged, ---- "For God's

sake, what happened to you" --- Magy realized that her friend had been a

fiasco, her feet were wet one head.- "Silly girl, you should have

called me to go through you, because you didn't tell me that you were

walking, you know that I can go through you always and more these days"

--- I reproach Magy.- "I know I'm sorry\, you know I don't want to be a

nuisance, besides you live in the opposite direction" --- "And that

matters, I can still go through you, I have some clothes in my office,

come on, you need take that off or you will get sick "-Kate felt

uncomfortable because Magy's tastes were somewhat extravagant for her

taste, they used to be very sexy and left almost nothing to the

imagination, but she had no other choice, or she worked with Magy's

clothes or with her clothes all wet.After changing, he resumed his work,

everything continued normal, reviewing some chapters of some not very

important books, taking and bringing documentation and of course the

coffee.Being 3 in the afternoon he finally finishes the last reviews and

leaves work now he only has a short time to eat something before

entering his other job.In the afternoon, she works in a small hotel as a

maid. It is not a great job, but it gives her a little more income for

expenses, as in her job at the publishing house, everything runs

smoothly.It is already 9:00 pm when she finishes her shift and goes to

her apartment, the rain is still continuing, although a little less

strong now it just seems like a breeze, on the way home Kate feels that

someone is following her, so she stops She abruptly turns around, but

there is no one, the street is completely alone, which makes her shudder

because she was sure she had heard a few footsteps behind her.He

continues on his way, but he has barely advanced a bit when he begins to

hear those footsteps again and to make his nervousness worse that night

is even darker than any other.She accelerates her steps, she still has 3

more blocks to go to get home, as much as she tries to walk faster, she

feels that it is not enough, the steps behind her are getting stronger

and closer, before she could realize it. something hits her on the head.

A heavy object hit his head with force and as he collapsed on the

ground he managed to see a large silhouette ...

Everything is dark, nothing can be seen, and then the sound of footsteps

breaks the silence, heavy footsteps echoing in your ears!

Kate

runs, although she does not know where it is because everything is dim,

immediately a stabbing pain begins in her head and a liquid emanates

from it.

She falls to the ground and begins to struggle, but it

is useless, something is on her and does not allow her to move, she

feels like something digs into her left arm, Aah! a pain and burning

begin to arise, she feels something tearing her inside, in her heart, as

well as the tear she felt in her arm.

She continues in her

fight, she does not want to give up, no yet, she begins to feel very

cold and realizes that she has been stripped of most of her clothes;

They have ripped it off, she asks for help, but her words no longer come

out of her mouth, they remain in a gasp in her chest; after struggling

too much, the stabbing pain in his head and the burning in his arm end

the last of his strength ...

- "Kate!" - She hears a cry that

calls her, but she cannot open her eyes, her head hurts, little by

little she comes out of that darkness.

"Kate, are you okay?" -

asks a very scared and anguished Nadya, who is the first face that Kate

manages to see, because her eyesight is still dark.

- "Doctor

come quickly, she woke up!" - someone yells and Kate realizes how

anxious and authoritative that voice sounds and knows that it is Magy.

- "How are you feeling Miss Sedre?" - asks the Doctor.

- "My head hurts too much." - She answers drowsily from the sedatives that two nights ago they had been giving her.

-

"That's normal, you suffered a concussion and trauma due to the blow

you received on your head, tell me, do you remember what happened to

you?" - asks the doctor, checking her.

- "No" - Kate didn't really remember anything\, she didn't know why she was in the hospital.

-

"Do not worry that is also normal, your signs are stable. Try to rest, I

will ask you to bring something to eat" -. he finishes making some

notes and leaves the room.

- "Thank you" - Magy and Nadya replied in unison\, who remained attentive while the Doctor checked Kate.

-

"What happened to me?" - Kate asks her friends, but none of them

responds, they are both stunned and anguished, they don't know how to

explain what happened to her.

There is silence in the room, a

silence that for Kate is eternal in waiting for the answer, finally

Nadya, who is the one with the most courage when it comes to speaking,

breaks the silence.

- "You really don't remember anything that

happened?" - Nadya asks, looking at her like a mother at her little girl

who has just fallen down the slippery slope of the park.

- "No\, I just felt a blow to my head and I don't know what else happened" - he answers raising his right hand to take his head.

---

"This I will tell you will not be easy to assimilate-breathe deeply-

but no one will really know what happened to you until you remember it, I

will tell you what we know, remember that on Monday I decided to do a

double shift at the Hotel Well, I needed extra money to send my

grandmother- Kate nods her head- that day you returned to the apartment

by yourself, about 3 in the morning I received a call from a police

officer, he told me that they had found you a block Before reaching our

Building, right in the middle of that alley that we have to cross- shut

up, breathe and watch your friend- you were unconscious and on a large

pool of blood, a guard who, on his way to watch, found you, he created

that it was an attempted robbery, the doctors say that someone hit you

on your head and because it was a "robbery" in the struggle they stabbed

you in the arm "- Nadya points with her finger to the left arm that

until that moment Kate had not he had realized that he had it bandaged

do and continue with the story.

- "Kate\, this was not a robbery

because I knew what you were carrying in your bag and everything is

there, you have to be strong, the person who did that not only hurt you,

but also abused you" - while said those last words Nadya's voice was

breaking because it was something very difficult to say and believe, he

did not know how that could happen to who he considered his sister and

more knowing how strong she was.

Again there was silence between

the three girls who were in that hospital room, none said anything else,

Nadya and Magy watched Kate's reaction expectantly, but on her face it

did not reflect anything, it is as if they were looking like to a

magical being of those that radiates light, the magic will end and that

brightness will be paid while it turns gray.

Kate couldn't assimilate all the words her friend just said, she didn't think it was real, it must be a nightmare.

'Yes

that's it!' She thought, 'this is nothing more than a nightmare, I must

be asleep' as she said that to herself an image of a large silhouette

came to her mind and with it a pain that tore her heart apart , there he

understood that all this was true.

Kate left after a week

in the Hospital, although she had wanted to leave earlier, she did not

want to be there because the costs were very high, but Magy got in the

way and said no, that she would take care of all that.

After arguing with Magy

regarding the fact that she could not stay so many days in the hospital

because she could not pay for it and understanding that her friend would

not let her out of there until the doctors discharged her, she finally

accepted the help from Magy, but on the condition that Kate would return

all the money to her friend.

Once she was discharged, Kate went to Nadya's apartment, not wanting to be left alone.

More than two weeks have

passed and Kate still does not believe what happened to her that night,

although she tried to return to her normal life, the nightmares at

night have not allowed her to fall asleep so her appearance looks every

time most deplorable.

- "Kate\, how are you?" - Magy asks\, pulling her out of her thoughts.

- "Hi\, I'm fine thank you" - although the truth was that no\, she feels exhausted.

- "There is dear to me

you can not fool me, you look really terrible, you know you can count on

me in whatever it is" -. she says while resting her arms on her

friend's shoulders.

- "Yes I know\, but I'm

fine and I'm over, I must leave all that in the past and focus on the

future, I have a lot of work to do, I'm sorry Magy I have to go" - Kate

did not like to talk much about that subject He knew it was really not

right, but he preferred to focus on his work and try to forget

everything that happened.

- "Okay dear\, take care"

- Magy says goodbye and retires to her office.Since that night Magy had

been more aware of Kate, although although everyone who knew her knew

at least a little, Kate had always been reserved in terms of her

problems and personal things, she almost never talked about such things

with no one, except for Magy on some occasions, but there was only one

person to whom Kate told everything and she was Nadya.

Nadya and Kate work

together at the Hotel and they were also neighbors so almost all the

time they were together, and more since that fateful night.

So much so that Kate had

begun to sleep in Nadya's apartment because at night that black

silhouette tormented her that pressed her until she was breathless.

- "How is your arm still?" - Nadya asks Kate\, while folding some towels.

- "Much better\, at least it doesn't hurt so much anymore" - Kate answers somewhat distractedly and raising her arm to see him.

- "We should go to the doctor again to check you\, that cut was really deep\, and I would not like that ..." - He interrupts her.

- "I'm not well really\,

thank you for worrying Nad" - Kate gives a smile to her friend to leave

her more calm and turns to continue folding towels and clean sheets.

- "Okay let's continue

working we still have room 350 and 356 to clean" - Nadya knows that her

friend is strong and trusts her, but she will never stop worrying about

her well-being, after her grandmother, Kate is the closest to a relative

who has.

Kate loved Nadya very

much because for her she was like her sister since she had come to the

City they had been together, they both came from small counties and

although their dreams were not the same, the two aspired to be the best

for the same purpose, to help his family.

Nadya was a short young

woman with a thin complexion, very long black hair, with large hazel

eyes, at first glance she looked like a fragile 16-year-old girl and not

a 22-year-old girl, but it was only her physique, since she was strong

of spirit and had great courage to face problems.

Although in a hand-to-hand fight she would be at a complete disadvantage, but that's what Kate was for.

Unlike Nadya, Kate did

look very good at 22 years old, she was a young woman with medium-tall

stature, her shoulder-length hazel hair that when she was caught by the

sun's rays flashed golden highlights, she had large grayish eyes that

together with his white skin color they looked very beautiful, his

complexion was slim, although he had strong arms due to the great work

he did on his father's farm as well as the rest of his body.

Kate had the strength of

a boy because she had grown up surrounded by them on the farm and the

hard work she had done since she was a child, although that terrible

night those forces could not help her at all and they abandoned her.

One day Kate decides that it is time to stay at her apartment.

For her there is no

longer any point in staying with Nadya and paying rent for her

apartment, although they had already talked about moving together they

had not done so because the apartments where they lived were really

small and only had one room and just enough space for things of a single

person, but that idea had not been abandoned because they would seek a

better place for both.

After that night, it was

the work of every day, entering Internet pages looking for a new

department, but so far they had not had any luck, all the departments

near their two jobs each had high costs.

As they were

back-to-school dates, many of the young people who entered Midcovia City

Universities had already hoarded the best places to live, so they had

no choice but to keep looking in that same area or looking in more

distant places. taking into account that transportation would be a

disadvantage.

- "Are you sure you want to stay alone?" - Nadya asks with great concern.

- "If I'm sure\, I think

it's time for me to go back to my apartment, it's time to leave all that

behind, don't worry. Nobody will be fine, I'm also right in the next

apartment" - she gives him a hug before get ready to go to your

apartment.

- "Promise me to call me whatever happens regardless of the time?" - says Nadya in an authoritative tone.

- "It's okay I promise you\, stay calm\, good night bye" - she takes her things and leaves the apartment.

-"Goodbye, take a rest"

--. she says goodbye and watches as her friend enters her apartment,

waits until she closes her door to do the same.

For Kate this is the

first time in a month that she has returned to her apartment. He feels

empty and cold, because a long time has passed that no one has given him

the warmth of home.

She decides to take a bath before finishing fixing some things for her work.

Once the shower is over,

Kate looks at her body, she still has marks from that night, including

bruises on her legs, her belly, but above all that huge scar on her left

arm, where she was stabbed.Although it no longer hurts physically, it

hurts in the soul just to see it, because that is one of the marks that

you will have to remember everything that happened to you.

After midnight, she

tries to fall asleep like every night, although it is not easy at all,

after a long time the fatigue of weeks without sleep overcomes her, but

that rest does not last long because during her dreams images of that

night begin to seize his head.

Kate had always had the

same nightmare, a large silhouette that takes her prisoner and does not

let her move, but that night new images begin to emerge, during her

struggle she hears how that silhouette insults her 'bitch' - 'you will

pay for this' - 'You will regret it' and look at one of the arms of the

guy that is on her, in which she visualizes a gold bracelet with a

diamond that glowed in the dark and the letter M.