Hidden life

We were getting ready for bed when we heard someone crying. We went out to investigate and found a baby girl in a basket with a note that said "I can't have my daughter, please take good care of her".

The baby girl had a similar eye color to the sky and we named her Celeste. We became attached to her and decided to take care of her as our own.

Time passed and the little girl grew up, she became a mature, intelligent and kind-hearted young lady. She helped us on the farm and we hardly allowed her to go to town. That was because it was a dangerous place where the gods used to kidnap women.

The best known case was that of a young woman named Elizabeth, who was walking through the market and a god on a cloud took her away in front of everyone's eyes. She was never seen again but everyone rumored that she was chosen as the wife of some god.

Celeste had grown up without friends and that made her very sad, so we would let her go to town in the company of one of us but never alone. She would get upset because we took care of her as if she were a child but we did everything for her safety.

We thought maybe we were overdoing it and decided to give her more freedom, we made her play with other children in town and introduced her to the other members of our family.

Everything was going well until suddenly, he started having strange dreams. She told us that she saw a man following her, describing him as a young man with angel wings and a seductive voice. We didn't think anything of it and thought it was just a phase, but when we saw that the dreams continued, we thought it was strange, but we didn't give it any importance because it

was just a dream that didn't have to make sense.

People can't control what they dream, dreams are just dreams and we found it impossible to believe that it could have any kind of meaning. We didn't believe it until one night he disappeared, fell into a deep sleep and never woke up again.

Three years ago.

My name is Celeste and I am the daughter of a peasant couple, I recently discovered that my mother was sterile and I always wanted to know how they managed to have me, but they never wanted to tell me.

They considered themselves blessed by the gods and so did I. I was not a millionaire. I could not complain, I was not a millionaire but I had a quiet life in nature and I never suffered from any kind of need.

The only thing I didn't like was being isolated from the rest of the world, since I was little my parents forbade me to talk to strangers and never let me go to town alone. When I turned 18 I thought it would be different but it was not.

One day, while they were taking a nap, I managed to escape and headed to the village. It was my first time going alone and I was going to make the most of it. As I was walking through the market, a young man approached me to ask for directions.

-Excuse me, I just arrived in town and I don't know anything about here. Do you know where I could get a place to stay?

The young man was tall, brown-haired, light-eyed and spoke seductively. I agreed to help him and took him to a house where they rented rooms. He thanked me and asked my name.

-I'm Celeste.

-It's a very nice name, I'm Sebastian.

-It's nice to meet you, you'll love this town, they say the people are very nice.

-I'm sure they are.

He looked at me with penetrating eyes and for a moment I got lost in them. I went into a kind of trance and found it hard to look away. The owner of the house interrupted us and suddenly I reacted again.

-Excuse me, I have to go.

-You're leaving so soon, I would have liked to get to know you better.

-My parents are kind of strict, I'd better go before they realize I disappeared, bye.

-I hope to see you soon.

As I was walking I felt his gaze on me, I turned around to see him but he was gone. I returned home and my parents scolded me for running away.

-Why did you disobey us Celeste, we have told you a thousand times that you should not go to town alone.

-Calm down mom, nothing happened.

-Don't do it again, we think something happened to you.

-I'm 18 years old mother, I don't need to be taken care of as if I were a child.

-It's true, we may be exaggerating, but we are worried that something might happen to you. Since one of the gods kidnapped that girl, everyone has been living in fear ever since.

-Just because it happened to her doesn't mean it will happen to me.

-Still I can't be calm, I have a strange feeling, something tells me that you are always in danger and I can't stop thinking.....

-I'm safe mother, I've been to the village many times and nothing ever happened to me.

-Many times? You mean you've run away before?

-No mother, this was the first time I went alone. If I'm in danger, no matter how much you protect me, if any god wanted to take me with him, he would have already done it.

-You're right, I'm sorry. You have the right to make your own life and I can't protect you all your life.

-I'm glad you understand, everything will be different from now on, won't it?

-Yes, daughter, I will give you more freedom, but promise me that you will take care of yourself.

-I promise.

-You won't talk to strangers, you won't wander in sparsely populated areas.

-No.

-And you won't go out at night.

-No, mother, I promise I'll take care of myself.

-It's okay...

-I'll be fine, really, nothing bad will happen to me.

-I don't know why I keep feeling this way, but I'm going to trust that you'll be fine.

-I don't understand why you're so afraid if nothing ever happened to me.

-No, but you're of age now and you haven't had sex, that's something the gods like.

-Mom, calm down, we've never seen one.

-It's true, I'm calming down.