"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."- William Shakespeare.
I learned at a certain age that the world is corrupted. There was no such thing as innocence, only oblivion and ignorance, we are born with sin and we will die with sin.
It's inevitable.
I'd like to think I learned it's technical definition in my last year of middle school-debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil;etc.-however, it was even before then that I learned the meaning of corruption.
My dad was a lawyer and my mother was a librarian. The combo was strange, a lawyer and a librarian. One who tries to either prosecute or defend and the other who prosecutes and defends the work of either fiction or non-fiction. My mother didn't always want to be a librarian, she had studied nursing and earned her credentials, but she couldn't work because she had to take care of her newborn baby girl-me.
Life was great for a certain amount of time, till I turned 10, and then my veil of oblivion was torn off and I was forced to witness my mother and father arguing about God knows what. They weren't aware of me until I screamed when my d-no sperm donor- had dared raise a fist to my mother. It's a good thing my mother wasn't someone who would take that bullshit. My mom spotted me peaking from the door, and dodged the sperm donor's fist and knocked him unconscious with a punch to the head.
We put up with him until I ended middle school, and was about to enter my first year of high school, when my mother had announced she wanted a divorce over dinner, and a month later they divorced. They signed a prenup so S.D had kept his stuff and we kept our stuff.
The second month of summer vacation and my mom announced we were moving.
I asked, "where?", and she said, "out of the state."
From then on, the gears of my weird and unprecedented destiny had started grinding.