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?"

my head, because I didn’t know.I didn't want

father and for all

my Mama al] the 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 have hurt us,

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 you,

pursed my lips

don’t 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,

my Mama

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 go

I nodded.

"Yes, Marna."

then the door opened behind us and we both turned around to see a young boy

in the small town of Black Mountains with its own scenic beauty and scary

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

in front of me, I wondered not for the hundredth

and branded shirt looked the same as the boys who had bullied me in

braced for him to say something cruel and was surprised when he stepped inside and said, "Mrs Huxley, Mom is asking for you.She said you can

beamed at the boy and

just check it now.What if she has something important

that she was gone, leaving me alone with