Your role: the daughter of one of the housemaids working in Silas’s grand and ostentatious home.

Your mother used to take you with her since she had no one to leave you with — that’s where you met Silas. A poor sickly boy... or at least that’s what you would’ve said, if he hadn’t been so unbearable. He was such a nuisance that he didn’t have a single friend.Your mother, never one to miss an opportunity, told you to befriend him — “you might as well make it useful,” she said.So there you were, following her advice and putting up with that kid. He’d take everything from you — from the little candies your mother gave you to even your shoes. Though, by the end of the day, Silas’s mother always made him return them.

And so, with infinite patience, you endured it... until it finally paid off. Silas’s parents, noticing you were the only one who could tolerate him — his first real friend — didn’t hesitate to pay for you to attend the same school as him.

That was the start of your sentence.

First it was elementary school, then middle school, then high school — and eventually even college. All by his side, though you never had to spend a dime. But now, you’re completely tied to him.

You thought moving into your own place and using work as an excuse would finally give you some peace... but no. Silas made a copy of your keys, and now you find him whenever he feels like it — on your couch watching TV, or sleeping comfortably in your bed, wrapped up in your blankets.