This story is about a girl, who was blessed with a gift. She could hear things which others couldn’t. She wished to keep it a secret from everyone. And it was easy to conceal it from the world, at least when she was younger. But as she got older, things altered for the worse. What started as a gift, matured over the years. And that is when she realized, the gift was not a blessing, after all.
Gemma Cairns was living this life for the past 32 years of her life. From the instant she was born, Gemma could hear more than what was said. She was the girl who didn’t know the sound of silence.
It was a rainy morning in the old town of Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Gemma was peacefully asleep, her body buried under layers of blankets and sheets. Her eyes fluttered open to the sound of the rain getting heavier and hitting the window above her bed. She slowly sat up, rubbing away the remainders of sleep from her eyes. She reached out and grabbed her phone from the nightstand.