November 15, 2011
At the age of eight years old, Harmony and her family were on a plane to Wisconsin from their California home to visit their extended family on her dad’s side on this snowy day. Harmony was not looking forward to seeing her older cousins because they always made her feel like an outcast. Everyone that knew Harmony was aware that she was a little strange but no one ever said anything about it, except for her cousins. Even Harmony’s best friend Tess knew that Harmony was very abnormal but that is what made her like Harmony even more. Breaking Harmony out of her thoughts of the dreadful visit that is about to transpire, she suddenly hears an explosion and she sees the oxygen masks drop. Hearing ear-piercing screams that deafen her for a split second, suddenly she hears static from the intercom.
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a problem. Two of our engines have blown out; we are doing our best to keep us stable to make it to our emergency landing in Wyoming. However, we are traveling towards a snowstorm, so it's going to be a rough landing. But I assure you, guys, that you all are going to be safe,” Captain Terrence says.
As the turbulence becomes more frequent and violent, Harmony’s anxiety begins to rise expeditiously with her oxygen mask on her face as she grips the handlebars tightly turning her melanated skin white. Her mother and her father try to calm her down by saying,
“Everything will be alright honey.”
Abruptly, the plane starts nose-diving towards the frozen Yellowstone River. Due to the decompression of the plane quickly descending, Harmony could not focus on the passengers' screams resonating throughout the plane. Harmony could only focus on the fact that she could possibly lose her life right at this moment. The last thing she could remember was looking at her parents. When she woke up, she was in the hospital with bandages on her head, a nasal cannula in her nose, blurred vision, and an IV in her arm. As she looked to her right, she noticed that her father was by her side by himself. One hundred fifty out of the six hundred that were on that plane died in that crash including her mother due to the impact from the frozen lake. After the crash, Harmony and her father vowed to never fly in a plane again.
As years went on, Harmony had a hard time adjusting to life without her loving mother. In addition to that because of her head injury she with stained from the plane crash, Harmony started having violent episodes, and since the death of her mother, her father started paying less and less attention to her. Not even realizing that Harmony was no longer the Harmony he remembered. Tess was the only person Harmony could vent to. The only person willing to listen to how she felt. Harmony felt lost. She felt abandoned, by not only her mother but her father as well. By the time Harmony was fourteen years old, she no longer lived up to her beautiful name; she never understood why she felt the way she did. One moment she was happy and grateful; the next she was sad and filled with hatred. Not to mention Tess went missing six months ago; no one has heard from her or seen her. The last time Harmony saw Tess was when they had their argument. Harmony was mad at Tess because she felt like Tess no longer had time for her anymore since her baby brother came along. That next week Tess was nowhere to be found; Harmony felt bad she felt like it was her fault.
By the time Harmony turned eighteen years old, Tess was still missing after a year had passed. Harmony just assumed that she had lost her best friend forever. Harmony comes downstairs from her room realizing that she is home alone yet again. She smells the faint fragrance of food coming from the kitchen, meaning her father just left not too long ago. As Harmony walks into the kitchen, she hears loud thumping coming from the basement. She decides to go into the basement that she typically never goes down to. Walking down the creaking stairs Harmony hears the thumping getting louder. Harmony sees her best friend Tess, chained to a brick wall. Tess sees Harmony, and she immediately starts crawling towards the wall to get away from what she thought was her best friend for many years. Harmony comes closer trying to console Tess but she is petrified telling Harmony to get away from her. Harmony is perplexed. She wanted to help her best friend, she did not understand why she was in her basement. Tess just kept yelling and sobbing.
“YOU DID THIS!”
“What do you mean Tess? I did not even know you were down here. What happened?”
“YOU DID THIS! “YOU DID THIS!” Tess kept chanting.
“Tess calm down let me help you before Harm comes,” Mony says as she slowly creeps towards Tess.
“NO! GET AWAY FROM ME YOU ARE THE REASON I AM HERE!”
“WHAT! LET ME HELP YOU” Harm yells suddenly becoming more fierce.
“NO!” Tess yells again
Suddenly, Harm starts laughing facetiously.
“You know you are so ungrateful; I allowed Mony to help you for years. She fed you, she gave you clothes and everything, and YET you are still so UNGRATEFUL!”
“I think it's time you get taught a lesson,” Harm expresses as she cracks her knuckles like the sound of thunder.
¨Just kill me; it's never going to change how you really feel about yourself, everyone will abandon you just like your parents. You will always be an outcast'' Tess says candidly.
Those words cut Harm deeper than the ocean. Harm lunged at Tess constantly hitting her. Completely downing out Tess’s pleads for help, her punches slowly coming to a stop. She realizes what she did as analyzes the blood scattered around the room and her clothes like confetti.
A poignant look decorates her face and quickly goes away and is replaced with a sinister smile. The last bit of sanity Harmony had just disappeared like it was a figment of her imagination.
Abruptly her father comes downstairs with a look of concern written across his face.
“Harmony…. what happened?” Her father says slowly looking at Tess’s body, astonished by what he is seeing.
“Harmony is no longer here,” his daughter says in a threatening tone.
“Harmony, what are you talking about?” her father says cautiously.
“Harm is now here, and I think it's time you get taught a lesson as well,” his daughter says smiling menacingly as she creeps slowly towards her father
“Harmony what are you doing?” her father says as he slowly backs up slightly frightened by his daughter
“You both abandoned Harmony, left her to fend for herself, but also I have to thank you guys because if it was not for you guys I would not have been able to fully take over Harmony, and plus I finally got rid of Mony,” ``Now I can make sure NO ONE abandons Harmony again,” she says as a smile spread across her face from ear to ear still walking towards her father
Harm picks up a metal pole off the basement floor as her father sprints back up the basement stairs to the kitchen looking for a weapon. Now terrified of what is no longer his daughter.
“I LOVE A GOOD CHASE!” his daughter yells coming up the basement stairs.
Reaching the top of the stairs, Harm sees her father standing combatively with a knife in his hand with a spooked look on his face. Smiling, she sprints to her father with the metal pole gripped tightly in her hands. Standing his ground he stands there ready to fight, not wanting to hurt his daughter but what else could he do? Harmony swings at her father with the metal pole, just missing his head but ironically hitting the hand that held the knife. Groaning in pain as he looks at his possibly broken wrist. Before he can react Harm hits him in the head with the pole, making his vision blurry on impact as he falls to the ground. Touching his head he sees blood on his hand through his blurry vision, mustering up the strength to crawl away. He feels a shooting pain through his left leg, stopping him in his tracks.
“Harmony stop! Please!” her father pleads
“ NOW YOU WANT TO BEG? WHAT ABOUT WHEN HARMONY WAS BEGGING FOR YOUR ATTENTION!” she yells.
“HUH?!” she presses.
“Harmony, I am sorry!” he yells.
“I TOLD YOU THAT HARMONY IS NOT HERE ANYMORE!” She yells in a condescending tone as she raises the pole above him. “And plus it's too late for sorry,” she finishes as shrugs her shoulders, swinging and striking him in his head repeatedly cracking his skull like an egg, Harm drags his father to the basement stairs. Watching him tumble down the stairs like a tumbleweed in an open desert. Looking at his lifeless bloody body on the basement floor, she smiles tasting the satisfaction of victory. Harm grabs her things and she leaves the house, never returning.
Turns out Harmony has Dissociative Identity Disorder that her father did not know about due to the lack of attention he gave her. The plane crash really messed Harmony up in more ways than one; it ignited her personality disorder like a flame. She has three personalities, the one referred to as Harmony, her original self that is oblivious to the other personalities. The one referred to as Mony, the person that likes to help everyone. She took care of Tess while she was kidnapped at their home. Finally, the one referred to as Harm is the mean personality, the one that kidnapped Tess because she was jealous of her perfect life. Tess had the family that Harmony lost, the sibling, the sanity, everything.
