AN: I am moving this from my alt account Lirio De Amor. I may slowly move everything from there to here, but I am rewriting this and felt it would fit better here, on this account. Please let me know what you think, etc. Enjoy.
Parents are never supposed to leave their children. It is supposed to be encoded within their DNA as soon as they have a child. As soon as they become a parent, they are supposed to know — they are supposed to put their children before themselves.
But, my father left me and my mother when I was not quite two years old.
He couldn't handle the stress of a family. He liked to drink. He hated my mother. He didn't want a child. He had other things to worry about.
You would think that, that would be enough; that one event like this would be enough on a girl to last her entire life.
You would think. But, you would be wrong.
When people say that everything happens for a reason … well, maybe they should have something really bad happen to them and see how they like it. See if they like the outcome. See if they still think that everything happens for a reason.
I got hit with the final blow when I was 14 years old. My mother practically left me on the doorstep of strangers to go on her so-called vacation with her so-called boyfriend, James, for three months. I should have seen it coming. But I hadn't. I should have seen what was right in front of me, like I normally did, but I hadn't seen what my mother was doing.
Three months. Are you kidding me? Like I didn't have enough on my plate but to have to worry about the strangers my mother was making me live with for three months? So what if she knew them? That was beside the point. I did not know them! I was pretty sure I had never, not once in my life, even met them.
The day she left me with those I did now know, I swear I saw her shadow linger longer than she did from the second story window of my new room. I stared at that shadow for several minutes, then, when I finally closed my eyes and reopened them, it was gone, just like her.
But, like I said: they say everything happens for a reason.
And, then again, sometimes people just get left in the shadows.