Here's the next part. The first was when she was about 5, and this one is the rest of her preteen years.
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She never really knew the woman's name. Her mother always referred to her as "the witch". They were never really in contact with them much either. They had their own life now. Separate from her father. Mother and daughter had moved back to mom's hometown. It was a small town, and they had settled in very nicely. What was nice about it was Allison's grandma was close by, and eventually moved in with them, when she got too old to maintain her own house.
The three women were a close knit family for many years. There weren't usually men in their lives, since Allie was too young, her grandmother too old, and her mother, who was just the right age, had sworn off men. They liked it that way, and they were happy.
Then he and the witch had a baby, and he wanted Allie to meet her. Her mother couldn't bear to take her to the hospital, so her grandmother volunteered.
When they got to the hospital, she saw her father standing outside the nursery, beaming from ear to ear. She tried to remember the last time he looked at her like that. She couldn't. He saw her and immediately went in and picked up the baby, bringing her outside to his older daughter. He leaned down to Allie's level.
This is your sister
He'd said it so proudly. Obviously, Allison hadn't been able to remember her own birth, but she didn't know if her father had been that happy then.
She peered down at the baby, and scrunched up her face. It was the strangest looking thing she'd ever seen. Her name was Carrie. Carrie Cameron. Apparently, her step mother liked the alliteration.
It was a very confusing time for Allison. She didn't know what her father wanted from her. Did he want to stay in her life and be the perfect father he had always been? Or did he want her out, gone completely, so he could ride off into the sunset with his new wife and new daughter? These were questions that she couldn't answer. She was only nine, and she was already dealing with things that were way beyond her comprehension.