None of us was brave enough to see why the door was open. We had heard our whole life never try and get into the locked door. We called it The Masquerade. It looked like a normal door. Until it was open. Despite all of our unwillingness to go in, we could see in. It was like light being fractured into a million tiny pictures. Each very different from the previous one. Until it looked like one of the shards of light expanded over the rest. It was of a crown. Of a kingdom. Each of the 4 kids saw vastly different surfaces. They saw what they wanted most in life. No one could resist. It seemed our wills were all weak. We entered into heaven. For one of the girls she was sent into an actual masquerade ball and lived through an enemies to lovers sequence. She was the bookworm. She was living her own book and flew through the pages exploring everything known to kind. It seemed she was happy. For one of the boys he found himself living through modern world. But he was top of all his classes, graduated with honors, and got to be an astronomist like he always wanted. He was the one who struggled but dreamed of ideas larger than those around him. He was, and he couldn’t believe it, successful and happy. For the other boy he found himself as the king of an empire. Vast riches, women, army. He conquered and he thrived. He grew his army and was able to control his subjects. He was powerful. And he loved it. He was one who was always picked on. Bullied. But here he got to rule. He got back at those who had wronged him. The final girl walks through the door and sees nothing. She walks and walks and walks but only sees nothing. Suddenly 3 screens pop up. She turns to one to see her sister. She turns to see her sister stuck in a jail cell screaming that he betrayed her. That he had loved her once. She sees her sisters beheading in a ballroom that was where the first masquerade ball happened. She forced herself to watch as her sister died beheaded in a place she loved so much. She turns to see her astronomist brother talking to his boss. She sees as his idea was rejected. Something that in this world had never happened to him. She sees as he lost faith in himself and ended up poor and dying in the street. She forced herself to watch as people walked past her dying brother without a care. She turned to see her kingly brother in a meeting. She sees as who seems to be her brothers closest companion pulls a knife out. She forces herself to watch as the blood seeped out of his robes. She saw how her siblings dreams tortured them in the end. A last screen popped up with her grandmother laughing and clapping.

“Encore! Welcome to the family business darling. Those who want for nothing and see those they loved die can achieve anything.” Her grandmother said. The last thing she heard before maniacal laughing and then. Nothing.