Rags and tatters - Pannos et tatters

It's 2 am. She heard her plastic heart beating uncontrollably. It was not always like this. She was used to hearing nothing but the squeaking of her joints when she moves. Now, she hears something else.

She was once alone inside her doll house. It was her world. She built everything pretty inside it. She shut herself out. She was contented and happy being alone inside her small world. It was all she got - and she was never unsatisfied.

She could be easily distinguished from the rest. She is a pure bred. She was not like them. She could go on a day feeling nothing because that's what pure breds do. They feel nothing. They care about nothing for as long as they have their own doll house to stay.

One day, a human saw her and tried talking to her. She wouldn't mind, but the human was persuasive. He wanted to get an answer to every single question he asks. He wanted her to speak. He wanted her to share something to him. He wanted her to open up. He wanted her to feel something.

She was a pure bred - aside from the squeaking of her joints when she moves, she was not supposed to hear anything else, she was not supposed to hear and listen any voice that is not hers, or even believe it. She should exist in her world alone. She should listen to her own voice. She should not believe anything she was told.

The human - he was extraordinary. He turned her into something she was not. She opened doll house, held her hand and led her outside. He said he wanted her to see what she was missing. He said there are a lot of things more beautiful than her doll house. He said his world is better. He said she won't have to worry. He said she will never wish to come back to her doll house ever again.

A heart started beating. First inaudible, then it became loud. It became as loud as a human's heartbeat. She felt good. It felt good. It was the best feeling she had felt. She couldn't believe that she finally felt it. As she was beginning to enjoy it, the human - he's there, but she can't feel him. It was like he shuts her out. As if a dose of irony, she realized, he was now in her doll house.

Suddenly, he was a pure bred doll himself. Suddenly, she was a half-bred. In a split second, they have shifted worlds. In a split second, she found herself building a wall around her as replacement for her old doll house. In a split second, she found herself stranded with a heartbeat she wasn't supposed to have.