Pandora

By Dawn Bates

One outgoing, the life and soul of every event in the social calendar. The other quiet, reserved and as timid as a mouse. He had it all, the notoriety, the love of the community, successful business and the money to go with it. She very rarely left the house and had the love of a man who protected her fiercely.

And then there was Pandora. Defiant, quiet like her mother, and a loner. Obsessed with cold water, of holding her breath until she turned blue, scaring her mother and father on multiple occasions.

Disappearing for days on end, then disappearing into her room and into her books on her return. All of them locked inside their secrets, all held together by one single thread, which if reveal would bring the community to it’s knees.

The question is, is it worth saving face, family and fortune, or saving others?