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Chapter 1

8 YEARS AGO Bronx, NY

BANG BANG BANG!

Olivia Pope hears the knocks but does not want to get out of her bed. She was more than 100% sure she knew who it was. BANG BANG BANG! There is goes again. Ugh, she was not in the mood for this. She had a test in the morning. This test could change her life for the better and get her out of this neighborhood and city. BANG BANG BANG! Liv runs to her door looks through the peephole and sighs. She was right, who else would bang on her door at 2am like she was the damn police. She was not in the mood to deal with O'lissa's problems. Her sister had chosen the path of drugs and she was sick and tired of putting her in rehab only for it to backfire. O'lissa would always go back to Ralph, the past six years she had had enough of it.

Olivia flung the door open and all but yelled "What is it?"

O'lissa stood in her doorway yet again beyond skinny with a bloody nose, eyes bloodshot red, (from crying no doubt), hair disheveled, clothes dirty, lips swollen and a new fresh black eye. Ralph beat her again, she smelled of alcohol and was high. Her sister looked a fucking mess, but this was not the first time she had shown up to her house like this.

Each time before, she had swiftly brought her sister in her house, cleaned her up and listened to what had happened. The next day, she would take her to a rehabilitation center and just knew that a change was finally coming. Not this time. She was fed up.

Shaking O'lissa replied, "Carrie, can I come in? I ... I need to ... I need some place to stay."

Olivia shaking her head, "No."

"But...but I...I really need somewhere to stay. I'm through with Ralph. I promise I am. I'm going to change. I just need -"

"Stop! Just stop I am tired of the same story. Tired of your lies. You have no more favors from me. This is over. Goodbye O'lissa."

Liv closed the door. It sounded so final. She forced her only sister out her life. Although it was the hardest thing she had to do. She had to do it. She had to let Lissy want to get the help she needed on her own. She could no longer hold her sister's hand and force her into rehab. She would let Lissy go and hopefully, just maybe she would get it; that the life she lived had consequences.

8 YEARS LATER - ATLANTA, GA

O'lissa Christine Pope was in a better place in her life. She no longer was on drugs, she did not sleep with men for money and for once in her life she had gotten closer to happy every day. She missed her sister terribly but knew one day she would see her again. Whether it was in this life or the next, she didn't know but she was okay with that.

She was up getting dressed to for work and her daughter Carolyn Christine Pope ready for school. This little girl came into life and changed her life for the better. Seven in half years she gave birth to baby girl who made her change for the better.

"Mommy, are you going to cook me breakfast. I pay attention so I can be smart."

O'lissa loved her baby, she took everything to heart what people told her. That can be good or bad depending on how you look at it, but it was innocent for her. She told her daughter that breakfast was the most important meal of the day and Carolyn made it a point to make sure she told her mother. They finished in the bathroom and went into the kitchen. It was 5:30am. She woke extra early to make sure she was able to give her daughter her eggs and toast everyday seven days a week. Carolyn was her world and she would do anything for her.

As she prepared Carolyn some eggs with cheese and toast, (her daughter's favorite breakfast), she watching the news.

Carolyn sat at the table as she watched her mom prepare her food and she squeaked when she noticed it was her favorite breakfast.

"Cheesy eggs & toast!"

O'lissa smiled as scooped the eggs and placed them on her plate with toast and grape jelly.

"Here you are baby."

As Carolyn began to eat, she also began to talk and O'lissa listened somewhat to her daughter but her attention began to focus on the TV when she seen her sister appear on the news. The great Olivia Pope and she felt a sense of lost of the connection she use to have with her sister and wanted to cry but she refused to cry in front of daughter. She had come a long way from where she had been. Her big sister by only a year and a half had been the perfect role model; honor student, college graduate, business woman lawyer. O'lissa realized that it was her fault for not listening; she regretted a few things but was also glad she went through them because she had her baby. Olivia tried to force her to focus on education on her, things she believed to be "Carrie oriented", she had given her sister the roughest time. When O'lissa met Ralph, (at the time she thought she found love), of course Carrie disapproved of him but she did not pay her sister any mind.

"Mommy... mommy! I'm finished!"

She didn't realize she had spaced out and that Carolyn had been calling her.

"I'm sorry honey, mommy is just a little distracted" she said taking her daughter's plate, washing it and placing on the dish rack. She went to get her daughter some orange juice and gave her a glass. Carolyn drunk the juice and handed the glass back to O'lissa.

"Go get your coat honey so we can get ready to go." Carolyn ran off to her room while O'lissa returned her attention back to the TV.

Olivia was making a statement about some new client she had. Her TV was low and she didn't bother to turn it up because she was not really focused on the detail. She really missed her sister. She had never stopped loving her sister but she was sure that Carrie had blocked any thoughts of her family out. One day she would try to contact her but she feared their reunion.

**Little did O'lissa know she was going to need her sister's help. **

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