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?"

I didn’t

bad men wanted my father and for all

time and drank cheap alcohol that smelled very bad.I said so to my Mama, "But, Mama, they only wanted to hurt him.They wouldn't

as she said, "But what if they did.I love

pursed my lips and cupped

hurt you

She ruffled my hair.

that.He’s your father and he promised that he'd do better, didn’t

all the time, but my Mama seemed to believe him so I

here more when you start the new school.This is a very good school, sweet angel, you will get to study here and then

I nodded.

"Yes, Marna."

and we both turned around to see a young boy standing there,

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

to give me a better education and to bring a resemblance of control to our lives, most importantly

wondered not for

and branded shirt looked the same as the

said, "Mrs Huxley, Mom is asking for you.She said you can come whenever you are

beamed at the boy and walked

check it now.What if she

that she was gone, leaving