Everyone on first meeting Lucinda thought she was a delightful little girl, with her long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, she seemed such a perfect little Angel. She lived with her parents and her younger brother, Damien in a nice large house in the countryside. The family pet was an old retriever named Goldie, who faithfully followed Lucinda wherever she went.
In school term, there was a nice easy-going atmosphere in the house as everyone had a definite routine to stick to. Lucinda went to ballet and gymnastics after school, and Damien had swimming lessons, not that they did him much good. The weekends were usually pretty booked up with sleepovers and camping trips.
Around her eighth birthday, Lucinda had noticed that Damien was always getting a lot of attention, even though he was always the one is trouble, whereas she being thought of as “little Miss Perfect” was not. Something had to be done to rectify that. She decided to run a few experiments on her parents to see what could change this situation. First she decided that she would speak in a low-pitched voice and stop the childish giggling that all her friends did. It made her parents ignore her as they thought she was just going through a phase. This only made her more determined.
She thought the name Lucinda wasn’t the right image, so she refused to answer to it, telling her parents to call her LUCI. They relented to this after many arguments.
Lucinda had been a very popular girl and had had many friends who would invite her over to play, until she changed her image, and then the invites stopped. Her parents were quite annoyed at the friends’ parents for shunning their daughter. After a few phone calls, the situation seemed to be clearer. It became obvious to them that LUCI, formerly Lucinda, has invented an imaginary friend, who was now being blamed for any little mishap. “He dun it” seemed to be a daily phrase. They decided to let it run its course and not to interfere as to bring it attention, according to the psychotherapist online website, would only make it worse, and have their daughter labelled as a schizophrenic.
Lucinda, however, thought she would have to up the stakes, as she still wasn’t getting enough attention. LUCI was taking more and more control and she was finding it difficult making her way back sometimes. He didn’t always do what she wanted. He seemed to have his own plans. What she had thought of as a good prank seemed to go a lot further when LUCI was in charge. Hiding her mother’s best tea set for example, she had always meant to put it back, of course. LUCI had other plans, he broke the china into pieces. That would certainly get their attention.
When LUCI tried to drown Damien, Lucinda’s parents called in professional help, who in turn, called in the priest.
