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

and for all I cared they could

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

if they did.I love

lips

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

She ruffled my hair.

your father and he promised

time, but my Mama seemed to believe him so I didn’t

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 to college and

I nodded.

"Yes, Marna."

to see a young boy standing there, he looked

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

our lives, most importantly

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

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

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

Mama beamed at the boy and

check it now.What if she has something

with that she was gone, leaving