Hush Hush Sweet Charolotte

by Usagi's Oven

What if you were forced to keep secrets all your life, and one of them was almost too painful to keep? ... (rated PG13 for violence, language, and breif sexual content)

1. Another Secret to Keep [Prologue]

Prologue

 For my entire life I was forced to keep secrets, and none of them are anything I can be proud of … when my father catches me watching him fool his clients, another secret to keep, a lie to tell, or when mother is out in the boathouse with someone other than my father, another secret to keep, a lie to tell.

 Father said once to me that sometimes a little white lie is good, and at the time I actually believed him. Now I know better. Now I am smarter. Never the less some secrets are just too hard to keep … and some secrets are impossible to keep.