Sadie Carmichael was the second child born to Anderson and Eloise Carmichael. She was the first daughter and she was perfect. She hardly cried, never needed too much attention and was always perfectly adorable just when the couple needed her to be. The perfect accessory. After all, isn't that the real reason people have children? To show them off.
Sadie wanted for nothing. Her parents were exceedingly rich and spoiled both Sadie and her older brother rotten.
All that changed after Sadie's Ninth birthday. While at a dinner party, one of the guests pointed to Sadie's arm and commented on what they called 'a very bad bruise'. Obviously concerned, Sadie's parents took her to the doctor the next morning to show him the black spot on her arm that was now roughly the size of a golf ball. The doctor was perplexed.