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Flashback:
"You two need to leave," she yelled at us while Justin hugged me tightly.
I watched her with tears in my eyes. "But we didn’t do anything," I uttered, my lips curling downward.
Justin’s hold around me tightened even more.
"I don’t fucking care!" she screamed, her expensive mascara smearing across her cheeks.
She began pacing back and forth in front of us.
Right in front of me stood the biggest mansion I had ever seen.
There wasn’t even a single room for us in such a huge house.
And the most painful part was that the woman standing before us, telling us all this, was our own mother.
"He doesn’t like you two," she snapped, stopping her pacing to yell at us again, referring to her new husband. "You two have become a nuisance, a liability."
I didn’t even know what those two words meant. I only knew from the expression on her face that they weren’t compliments. Nor was she showing us any love.
"But Mom, she’s telling the truth. She didn’t do anything," Justin spoke up.
He was only nine years old. That was as loudly as he could speak.
"I don’t fucking care!" my mother shouted again, wiping her cheeks with the back of her hand before catching her breath.
"The two of you can’t stay here anymore," she declared, making it clear that this was her final decision.
"But..." Justin began, trying to approach her, but every time he did, she aggressively pulled away, forcing him to step back. "They became..."
"I don’t fucking care," she snapped. "Your father left me. Your father abandoned me with you two. And I lived. I survived that poverty. I’m pretty sure you two can do the same. I mean, after all, somebody has to pay for your father’s actions," she hissed, refusing to look directly at us.
That was not the real reason she was kicking us out of her new house.
The real problem was that her new family did not accept us. Her new husband’s children hated both Justin and me. They bullied me relentlessly, to the point that my mother made her decision.
I don’t know if I was being selfish, but I wanted her to choose us.
Maybe I was asking too much of her, expecting her to ruin her entire life and give up her chance at happiness a second time.
But I didn’t know.
I was just a child, staring at my mother.
My mother’s eyes were filled with hatred for me, and she seemed desperate to go back inside and hug someone else’s children as her own.
"The council will help you find a home," she finished.
I tried to run after her, but Justin hugged me tightly.
"There is no use," Justin murmured as the warriors approached us, gesturing for us to get into the car.
Warm tears streamed down my face as I watched my mother disappear into the mansion.
End Of Flashback:
I had woken up early that morning, sweating and in tears. That was how it always went.
But I had one important thing to do.


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