Zoraya

"Who is that?"

I sat in my room outside the gate and watched as the guests came in. It was Elena's birthday and a party had been thrown to celebrate her coming of age.

Everyone kept looking at the cubicle where I had come to call my room. Even though there were several rooms in the house, that cubicle was the place I knew as my room.

I spent my whole life sleeping in the cubicle alongside our dog, Zara.

Even though, I always wondered why I was made to stay in the cubicle with Zara ...