1996 - Ontario, Canada
"You need to decide who you want to be going forward, because this…this girl is not acceptable." Siobhan told her fourteen year old daughter
Roisin rolled her eyes, "Or what? What are you going to do, S? You're not really my mother!" She crossed her arms, "There's nothing you can do to me."
Siobhan just turned around and walked away, before she did something that she would regret because right now she had an itch to smack her teenage daughter, but she also never wanted to do that. It was best that she just walked away.
"See I knew it. You won't really do anything to me, because you know it's true. You're not my mother." Roisin remarked before going to her room and slamming the door.
In her room, Roisin found eight year old Felix sitting on her bed. She sighed as she pointed at the door, telling him to get out. Normally she loved her brother, but right now she was not in the mood to deal with his childish games.
"Get out, Felix!"
"Why are you so mean to Mummy?"
Roisin shook her head, "She's not my mother, and she's not yours either, Felix."
"But she loves us." Felix added
"She lies to us, Fee. You don't lie to the people that you love."
Felix furrowed his brow, thinking deeply, "Maybe...maybe she lies to protect us." He always wanted to give the people that he loves the benefit of the doubt.
"If S really loved us, she'd tell us the truth."
"Well I know she loves us, and someday you will realise it again because you used to love her. You used to call her mum." Felix told his sister, before jumping down from her bed and leaving her room.
Roisin shook her head as she closed her door behind Felix. 'So young and naive.' She thought, 'Someday he will realise what I already know to be true. That S has never loved us at all.'
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