'I Built An Underground Cave After a Fight With My Parents'

Until I was 8 years old, I lived in La Romana, a small town with 2,500 inhabitants in the Spanish province of Alicante. But in 2009 my family decided to renovate an old country house nearby. They intended for it to be used on weekends, but the place was so quiet and beautiful that we decided to live there.

Other children came to visit us in the countryside on weekends, but the rest of the time I was alone. I never had anything like a PlayStation or a Wii. In fact, until 2013 I didn't know about the internet. Instead I loved to play outside and build cabins with used materials that I found on our land.

I have always had a great relationship with my parents, my family is a team, and I was never a troublesome teenager, but I would get angry for silly reasons and then defend my position to the end. One particular day in March 2015, when I was 14, my parents wanted me to change my clothes to go into town to see my friends, but I was comfortable in my track suit so I refused. I also knew that my friends and I were going to get dirty and I'd probably tear my clothes, but my mom kept insisting I get changed.

Angry and frustrated at not being able to leave the house, I took a hoe and went to the end of the garden. Under the shade of an olive tree, I struck the ground until I had dug a small hole. As I saw that first little hole emerge, my anger subsided. I actually began to feel happy.

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