Blackmailed For Love

"I don’t like it here.I don’t!"

I stomped my foot as Mama opened the small bag and started to take our clothes out.

"Mama!"

"Hush, now, my pretty angel."

She always called me that but sometimes I wished that she wouldn't, not because I hated it but because I never felt like an angel.

And another reason was because my Mama named me after a Princess who became a queen, and because of that all the students at my previous school] made fun of me.

Spoiler alert, we lived in a trailer park and in no way I was a princess.

She grabbed a few clothes and went to arrange them in the big wooden cupboard near the window.

When she turned around, she came straight to me and crouched down.

My mother had hair like mine, silver with the hint of pink and our eyes were the same too, big and blue.

She took my small] hands in hers, her hands were rough from all the work she does.

"You know we couldn’t live there anymore, don't you?"

because I didn’t know.I didn't want to

bad men wanted my father and for all I cared they

cheap alcohol that smelled very bad.I said so to my Mama, "But, Mama, they only wanted to hurt him.They

squeezed my fingers, her smile affectionate as she said, "But what if they did.I love you so much, my sweet angel, I'd never let anyone hurt

pursed my lips and

want him to hurt you anymore.We should’ve left

She ruffled my hair.

that.He’s your father and he promised that he'd do better,

but my Mama seemed to believe him

said, "And, you would like it here more when you start the new school.This is a very good school, sweet angel, you will get to study here and then one day you'll

I nodded.

"Yes, Marna."

to see a young

came to live in the small town of Black Mountains with its own scenic beauty and scary forests, and one such forest was outside our little cottage that was assigned to

control to our lives, most importantly to run away from my father’s debts,

in front of me, I wondered not for the hundredth time why Mama had to bring

and branded shirt looked the same as the boys who had

he stepped inside and said, "Mrs Huxley, Mom

beamed at the boy

just check it now.What if she

that she was gone, leaving me alone