Disclaimer: I don't own Plum characters. A nod of respect goes to Janet Evanovich and her imagination for creating these characters.
My Mother's Daughter
Author: Christie
Rating: G
RQ-Fic Challenge: December 2006: 100 word character sketch
It wasn't easy being my mother's daughter.
Ever since I came along, mommy's world had turned upside down. Unlike my sister, I wasn't the perfect little angel she expected me to be. I would never be her and didn't want to be.
"You're a dreamer," Grandma told me as I cried on her shoulder. "Imagination is a gift. Use it while you can."
"I don't understand!" I sobbed. "I just want to be me."
"One day you'll understand." Grandma wiped away my tears. "You're just like Stephanie when she was your age."
"Really?" I said hopeful. "You think so?"
"Really."
Perfection
Author: Christie
Rating: G
RQ-Fic Challenge: December 2006: 100 word Character Sketch
No one believed me.
I didn't want to be perfect, but not everyone could see past that now. I did what made my mother happy. For two weeks after daddy left, I sat outside mommy's door listening to her cry, knowing she was crying for him. I decided then that I didn't want mommy to cry anymore and I would do anything to make her stop.
I looked in the mirror and shook my head, "I'm not perfect."
It wasn't about what made me happy, the decision was no longer mine. Daddy took that right away when he left.
Challenge: Character Sketches
Original Posting Date: December 2006
Secondary Posting Date: March 03, 2007