FINDING MY FAMILY
FINDING MY FAMILY
The cold winds of LA attacked the pedestrians from all angles, the wind cutting apart their ice cold bodies. The freezing atmosphere is nothing compared to what a young girl was experiencing though. In that very moment, her life came crushing down around her.
Life had betrayed her...
Gone was the joyful smile she once wore, now, a grimacing frown graced those chapped lips. Her once tan skin deathly pale and damaged. The scars of her past fit her life a perfect set of clothes, her hair shielding her eyes from the world she is so desperate to leave.
Nothing could make this child smile once again.
She found no reason to be happy. No reason to be sad. No reason to be angry. She felt nothing.
"Liv! Stop writing depressing shit and help me take these boots off!" Shutting my pad with a dramatic sigh, I trudged over to the big lump on the sofa that I called my best friend.
"Megan, did you ever consider the fact that maybe your feet are too big for a size six pair of boots?" Josh asked. Josh is my other best friend, he is that friend every girl need. The one who is harmless and will tell you everything you need to know, but also a little cheeky.
"They fit!" Megan yelled as Josh once again struggled to help her remove the boots.
"Shut up man feet! They're tiny on you!" I joked as I joined in on pulling at the stretching leather on her foot.
"RUDE!" She screamed back, partially joking and partially in pain with the, what must be now, loss of circulation in her foot.
With a few more tugs, a zipper busting off, and a large screaming match. The boot was off. Unfortunately, said boot happened to hit me in the face, making my nose bleed.
"OW!" I yelled as josh tried to stop the profuse bleeding that was escaping my face.
"Oh shit! Liv I am so sorry, I swear it was the boot not me!" Megan said as she began helping as well.
"Ow! Ow! OW!" I kept repeating as they attacked my nose with tissues to try and stop the bleeding.
Once realising we had no hope in stopping it alone, we decided to leave the fitting rooms of Primark, and made our way to the hospital down the road. We arrived at the emergency room and we're assisted by a blonde nurse. Said blonde nurse happened to be Megan and Josh's mum, so after laughing at how her daughter tried to convince me to shove tampons up my nostril, she helped us.
Amanda, Megan and Josh's mum, eventually came to the solution that we had to stick a burning metal rod up my nose to stop the bleeding by burning me face to hell. I didn't really pay attention to the name or description of this 'medical method' when I heard burning and nose in the same sentence.
An hour later I was laying across the backseat of Amanda's car as she drove us back to her house, trying not to touch my nose while Megan stroked my hair soothingly.
"So, Liv, has your social worker been able to find some family yet?" David, Megan's dad asked as we sat at the table eating food at his house.
"David!"
"Dad!"
Megan and Amanda scolded, while Josh gave him a deadpanned glare, assuming I would brake into a ball of tears.
"No, it's okay. He said there might be someone, but they're having trouble getting in contact with them." I responded with a small smile. "Why, are you tired of me already?!" I gasped dramatically, earning a chuckle from everyone else.
"Well, your not as clumsy as this one so i'll take you." He chuckles as he points to Megan, who had just spilled gravy all down her front.
"I would argue, but I can see where your coming from." She says with a grin as she grabs a napkin.
That night we watched some films before we were sent to bed.
Megan went to her room while I decided to sleep in the guest/my room tonight.
And what does a simple girl do when she feels nothing? That's the problem with that question isn't it. No one knows because people who feel nothing can't give you an answer to that. They don't even know themselves.
But this little girl didn't believe in emotions controlling your life. She believed in the freedom to become anything you wish to be, and nothing and no one can hold you back. Not even yourself. So she pledged the horrors she endured would not control who she became, but instead, guide a path to be an even better person than she was before. For life is nothing but a long road. With twists and turns and bumps and dips. It can be an adventure or a nightmare, it just depends how you look at it.
Closing my notepad once again, I took the picture frame on the nightstand and smiled fondly at it. Sat in the back was a woman. She had red hair with blended bits of brown, sparkling brown eyes and a toothy smile that showed how much effort she took in being proud of her appearance. Next to her was a man with blonde hair and brown eyes, the typical dad hairstyle. He had a little bit of a dad bod, and a smile gracing his lips also. In his arms, he held a little girl. The little girl was barley a toddler, she was still a baby, with specs of blonde hair and the same brown eyes as the man, she wore a little pale blue dress with white socks and navy shoes. Holding onto the little baby's hand was a girl. She had her red/brown hair hanging in a ponytail, black square framed glasses resting in her hair as she refused the fact she had bad eye sight. She had bright green eyes and a small button nose, unlike either of her parents. The girl was barely five years old, but her eyes held so much wisdom and curiosity for her surroundings.
That night, I wept myself to sleep thinking of the family I once had. The family I had lost.
Little did Liv know, there was another family out there, and they were determined to get her back.
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After a one-night stand with a stranger, Roselyn woke up to find only a bank card without a PIN number. Still in a daze, she was detained on charges of theft. Just as the handcuffs were about to close, the mysterious man reappeared, holding her pregnancy report. "You're pregnant with my child," he said coldly. Shocked, Roselyn was whisked away in a helicopter to the presidential palace, where she learned the truth: the man from that night was none other than the country's most powerful and influential leader!
Janice, the long-forgotten legitimate heiress, made her way back to her family, pouring her heart into winning their hearts. Yet, she had to relinquish her very identity, her academic credentials, and her creative works to her foster sister. In return for her sacrifices, she found no warmth, only deeper neglect. Resolute, Janice vowed to cut off all emotional bonds. Transformed, she now stood as a master of martial arts, adept in eight languages, an esteemed medical expert, and a celebrated designer. With newfound resolve, she declared, "From this day forward, no one in this family shall cross me."
"You're mine, little puppy," Kylan growled against my neck. A soft gasp escaped my lips as his lips brushed my skin. My mind screamed at me to push him away-the Lycan Prince who had humiliated me again and again, but my body betrayed me, leaning into him before I could stop myself. He pressed his lips against mine, and his kiss grew more aggressive, more possessive as I felt my legs weaken. What was I doing? In a split-second, I pulled away and slapped him hard across the face. Kylan's eyes darkened, but the smirk on his lips exposed his amusement. "You and I both know we can't fight this, Violet," he said, gripping my wrist. "You're my mate." "And yet you don't want me," I replied. "You told me you were ashamed of me, that l'd never be your queen, that you'd never love me. So please, accept my rejection and let me go." "Never," he whispered, his grip tightening as he pulled me closer. "Soon enough, you'll be begging for me. and when you do-I'll use you as I see fit and then I'll reject you."
"Lucien, let's get a divorce," I said in a peremptory tone that was long overdue, the most decisive farewell to this absurd marriage. We had been married for exactly three years-three years that, for me, were filled with nothing but endless loneliness and torment. For three years, the husband who should have stood by my side through every storm, Lucien Sullivan, had completely disappeared from my life as if he had never existed. He vanished without a trace, leaving me alone to endure this empty, desolate marriage. Today, I finally received his message: "I'm back. Come pick me up at the airport." When I read his words, my heart leapt with joy, and I raced to the airport, thinking that he finally understood my love and was coming back to me. But his cruelty was far worse than I could have ever imagined-he was accompanied by a pregnant woman, and that woman was Carla, my closest and most trusted friend. In that moment, all of my previous excitement, all my hope, and all of our shared laughter and tears turned into the sharpest of daggers, stabbing into my heart and leaving me gasping for air. Now, all I want is to escape from this place that has left me so broken-to lick my wounds in solitude. Even if these wounds will remain with me for the rest of my life, I refuse to have anything to do with him ever again. He should know that it was his own hand that trampled our love underfoot, that his coldness and betrayal created this irreparable situation. But when he heard those words, he desperately clung to this broken, crumbling marriage, unwilling to let it end-almost as though doing so could rewind time and return everything to how it used to be. "Aurora, come back. I regret everything!" Regret? Those simple words stirred no emotion in me-only endless sadness and fury. My heart let out a frantic, desperate scream: It's too late for any of this!
Rena got into an entanglement with a big shot when she was drunk one night. She needed Waylen's help while he was drawn to her youthful beauty. As such, what was supposed to be a one-night stand progressed into something serious. All was well until Rena discovered that Waylen's heart belonged to another woman. When his first love returned, he stopped coming home, leaving Rena all alone for many nights. She put up with it until she received a check and farewell note one day. Contrary to how Waylen expected her to react, Rena had a smile on her face as she bid him farewell. "It was fun while it lasted, Waylen. May our paths never cross. Have a nice life." But as fate would have it, their paths crossed again. This time, Rena had another man by her side. Waylen's eyes burned with jealousy. He spat, "How the hell did you move on? I thought you loved only me!" "Keyword, loved!" Rena flipped her hair back and retorted, "There are plenty of fish in the sea, Waylen. Besides, you were the one who asked for a breakup. Now, if you want to date me, you have to wait in line." The next day, Rena received a credit alert of billions and a diamond ring. Waylen appeared again, got down on one knee, and uttered, "May I cut in line, Rena? I still want you."
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