Snatched (The Collection)

“Why are you all so pretty?”<br/><br/>It all started when I was six years old.<br/>I was homeless.<br/>They were held prisoner.<br/><br/>I saved them. Even though it put me in the system.<br/>They believed we built an unbreakable bond forged by trauma.<br/>These beautiful, damaged boys saw me differently than the rest of the world.<br/><br/>As much as I wished I could feel the same. I couldn’t.<br/>These boys–men–had too much anger. Too much hate.<br/><br/>They wanted to burn down anything and everyone who had wronged them.<br/>It was eating them up inside. I tried to warn them.<br/>Instead of listening to me, they were set on destroying themselves.<br/><br/>And me in the process.