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

and for all I cared they could have

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

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

lips

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

She ruffled my hair.

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

promised that all the time, but my Mama

sweet

I nodded.

"Yes, Marna."

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

fifteen years old and we 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

a resemblance of control to our lives, most importantly to run away from my father’s debts, my Mama had taken a job as a housekeeper for the Aaron’s, whoever they

I wondered not for

in his ironed jeans and branded shirt looked the same as the boys who had bullied me in my

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

the

if she has something important

gone, leaving me alone with this