Chapter One: Backgrounds and beginnings
Stephanie's POV
I guess I should probably start at the beginning of the story of my existence and then end things with how I exactly wound up living with my older brother and his three friends in their beach house.
So let me start things off with my older brother Mike since his life plays a major part in mine. Okay,so lets start with his childhood since, he's had the actual pleasure to know both of our parents,before being shipped off to our Aunt Kate's house.
From what my brother used to tell me,our mama and daddy were over joyed to have a son that could carry on daddy's name which was Robert Michael,a name that my brother would come to eventually dislike being called but we'll get into that reason why later on.
Anyhow,things between mama,daddy and Mike were perfect until Mike was about five years old and daddy began hanging around bars,other women and was a constant drunk who always took his anger out on mama, then apologized days later when she tried to hide the cuts and bruises from the rest of the family.
Things got so bad one time that mama ended up in the hospital because daddy had beaten her so bad during one of his drunken rants,that Aunt Kate stepped in and took both Mike and mama in her ranch house and had daddy arrested.
Over time mama recovered and raised Mike by herself along with help from Aunt Kate and our cousins Lucy and Clara who sort of became older sisters to Mike and myself during the years we spent living in their house.
Things were finally gong good in everyone's lives until years later when daddy eventually came back into the picture,begging for Mama to take him back with the promises that things were going to be different.
To this day nobody knows why Mama took daddy back. Even though Aunt Kate advised Mama not to go,Mama just wouldn't listen and went back to daddy without even thinking, and ended up having to leave Mike behind because Aunt Kate didn't want him to have to go through seeing his mama get hurt all over again.
