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?"

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

wanted my father and for

was bad, he hit 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

said, "But what if they did.I love you so much, my sweet angel, I'd never let anyone hurt you,

lips and

want him to hurt you anymore.We should’ve

She ruffled my hair.

talk like that.He’s your father and he promised that he'd

all the time, but my Mama seemed to believe

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 go

I nodded.

"Yes, Marna."

door opened behind us and we both turned around to see

of Black Mountains with its own scenic beauty and scary forests, and one such forest was outside our little cottage that was assigned to us, surrounding the

an attempt to give me a better education and to bring a resemblance of control to our lives, most importantly to run away from my father’s debts, my Mama had

the boy in front of me, I wondered not for the hundredth time why Mama

same as the boys who had bullied me in

was surprised when he stepped inside and said, "Mrs Huxley, Mom is asking for you.She said you can come whenever you

at the boy

it now.What if she has something important to tell

that she was gone, leaving me alone