Perhaps it was stepping once again into this familiar place, like a protective shell, where everything outside was cut off, that the grudges and memories buried deep within her heart surged into the sea of dreams in tranquility.
Serena Stanton, after a long time, and rarely, dreamed of the day they broke up.
If she could, she would wish to never recall that experience for her entire life.
...
Serena Stanton's life was like a documentary tragedy film.
She was born in a poor, remote area. Her parents married hastily through a matchmaker, just to carry on the family line. When her mother gave birth to her, her father saw she was a girl and, full of disdain, named her Jodie.
In the following years, her mother failed to get pregnant again, her father drowned himself in alcohol, beating or cursing after every drunken stupor.
Eventually, unable to endure a terrifying night, her mother escaped alone, leaving Serena behind to that monstrous father.
