It has been exactly forty hours and twenty three seconds since I last saw daylight. It's been exactly six hundred and seventy two hours and three thousand and sixty seconds since I last saw my only two best friends. I have been counting every second to hours because I have two superpowers,....well not exactly superpowers but disabilities. One in particular is that I can see in darkness...that's why I have cat-like eyes that my school mates always laugh at, leaving me with only two friends. The other is not sleeping...I hope that answers why I can count from seconds to hours to days if not busy like right now that I have been tied to a wall and eyes tied.
I wonder if anyone is looking for me because my friends are chickens that fear to stick their necks for me and I have no parents...they killed after my birth by my cultural leaders who thought that I was a curse but mercifully decided to banish me from their clan.... leaving me to be mercifully picked by a white lady who I saw later as soon as I begun to understand. Now, maybe she might be looking for me to kill me since she sees me as a sacrifice to richness now.
I ran away from her when I found out and later on kidnapped by people with her type of thinking.
At least am going to die after ten years of leaving.

© Lamaru Janet