The Twin that got left Behind

I sat there with my headphones in my ears humming and bumping my head whilst listening to music drumming in my ears. I love listening to music. Music has been an incredibly big part of my life as a singer, songwriter and performer. Music has changed my life completely. It's healed me. I have been focused on my career as a musician since I was eleven years old, right after I graduated from high school. Yes, eleven. I've always been smarter than everyone in my class and skipped a few grades. I'm a genius. I used to be a child actress when I was little, but dad took me out of acting and said that my education was more important to him, which was a lie, but I agreed to it anyway, because he had promised that I could keep my website and my YouTube channel up as long as I promised to go to school. I planned on going back to acting as soon as I graduated from high school, but it's been hard. My mother tried to stop me at every turn. I found out that she was the reason he sent me to school, because my twin sister was not as great an actress as I am, and they were scared that she would not have a career if I continued to act. As hard as it was to leave acting because I truly loved it, I decided to focus on other things, like my YouTube channel of no less than one-hundred and fifty million subscribers and my website, which both make me millions of dollars a year, and also the occasional supermodel gigs for brands I work with. "Ella-Mai dinners ready" Bonnie yelled, to which I responded by telling her I was coming. Bonnie is the legal guardian my father left me behind with. He gave her legal custody so he could live his life without worrying about me, I guess. I finished editing my video, then uploaded it to my YouTube channel and joined Bonnie and her kids for dinner. I sat down and started eating the food my chef made for us and nodded my head occasionally, indicating that I was listening to Kylie's stories. She is Bonnie's eldest daughter and her pride and joy following in the footsteps of her mother, who was also a soldier. Bonnie has four kids of her own. There is Dylan, a nine-year-old girl, Emory, 19 years old and second oldest, and Brienne, 14 years old. "How far are you with your birthday plans? " Bonnie asked me. I am turning 16 on Valentine's day and have been planning my party for a few months now. "I am done. The party planner has taken over now." "Is your father going to be there?" Brienne asked, to which her boyfriend, Terry, responded. " Obviously not." She likes asking stupid questions about him because she thinks it hurts my feelings when she talks about my dad. ""They are moving back home soon. After the scandal, your mom spent most of her money trying to cover up her son's crimes so he'd stay out of prison and your younger sister's scandal. " My brother Eliot, who they call Ledger, has set fire to his neighbor's house after a fight with their son over a girl they both liked. My 14-year-old sister Vienna had discovered s*x and had been boning guy after guy and, after boning the wrong guy twice, the very jealous boyfriend decided to get revenge, started a website and outed her as a w***e. I was shocked because next to my twin she was my father's favorite child because she had the potential to grow up to be everything he wanted in a young woman. It's been four years since I last saw my father, Dean Rodgers, after he abandoned me at the age of seven years old for my mother and twin. My life changed. People took advantage of the fact that he left and started abusing me badly. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I tracked him down and waited for him in his house. Big mistake. He told me to leave, and I refused until he listened to me, to which he responded by smacking me and kicking me out of his house. I changed my number after that day and never saw him or spoke to him again. I left everything behind after that day, including all the people who spent years lying to my face and cutting them from my life. Over the years, I've learned to get smarter and started blackmailing Bonnie into keeping everything that goes on in my life private, especially when it comes to my career moves, because I realized she kept them informed of whatever movie roles I had auditioned for and hence ended up losing those roles because they knew of it. For years, they lied to me and told me that he was going away to fight in another war, but I knew the truth. I had a YouTube channel and my followers had updated me on his whereabouts after I had spoken about how much I missed him online and as bitter a pill as it was to swallow. I chose to focus on my YouTube channel and my website and that's how I became more famous and made money by using my YouTube platform and website to promote products companies send me and make my own money. I've been making money on my website since I was a child, shortly after I gained fame for being a child actress. I later joined the platform YouTube, where I posted videos from my daily life and started using the platform to promote products sent to me from companies. Over the years, I have managed to build a good relationship with some businesses, and they started paying me millions. Some have paid me millions simply for being a loyal customer and not telling their competitors of their business deals and so forth. I have managed to use the money I have made to invest in other businesses and businesses of my own, which led me to make myself a great amount of $5.5 billion over the years. Despite their lies, I knew the truth. They lied. He left me so he could run back to my mother and my twin sister, all while leaving me behind to be bullied and abused by others. I lived a very hard life whilst he was gone. The beatings I got from people like his brother Luke simply for being better than his children. My uncle hated me for it and used stupid reasons to beat me for nothing. Don't even get me started on the s****l abuse of people like Karina and her daughter Devina, who learned from some websites that they could give you these lethal shots to abuse you into liking girls which had been proven to work, because some of the victims couldn't stand the torture anymore and caved in. Boys like Octavius King would hold me down in the bathroom just so he would touch me and when I rejected him he gave me a very harsh beating to which his mother made excuses for, and he walked away freely. They ended up lying to my father and I continued to suffer. In the end, I got smarter though. Money fixed almost all of my problems. I couldn't take it anymore, so I hired someone to get rid of more than half my problems and whilst some of my problems disappeared, I couldn't quite get him to fix all of them. Which is why I had to make a very tough decision. I Ella-Mai Rodgers has always been very different from my own pears. I was always wiser, smarter and just better in general. I have always been a very upstanding woman, the kind of young woman that was perfect at every single thing she took on. People admired me for it. Mothers want me for their sons or daughters and fathers would kill to have a woman as respectful as me to their sons. It was simply unheard of to have a young woman like myself in this world, especially in a s**t town like the Valley of Saints (VOS), which is where I grew up. So I went to the only man I knew who had the power to end my suffering and offered myself up to his son. In exchange, he would sort out the remainder of my problems, so I would not have to be locked in sellers anymore and live a normal life. Drake Reyes was an even better soldier than my father and a very powerful man at that, and he also happened to be a distant friend of my father's. He had agreed that he would marry me to his second-eldest son, Dalton Reyes. Dalton and I are set to marry after my sixteenth birthday. My father does not know of it yet because neither Bonnie nor I have told him. I have, however, announced that I was dating someone on my i********: but never posted a picture or revealed his face because of the 10-year age difference between us. I had to find the best way to address the media so all the heat wouldn't be on him. "Your mother will most likely throw your sister a huge party, so if I were you I'd go big too, not just because of your sister's party, but because you deserve it. "You work really hard for a fifteen-year-old, and it's time you started celebrating yourself. " She was right, so I told her I'd do it. My mother and I have no relationship at all. She and my father divorced when we were both really young. She took my twin, Elaine, and he took me, Ella-Mai. My father was one of the best soldiers I know and, after being forced to leave his life as a soldier, he was forced to return home and deal with his feelings, which led to a lot of trauma and pain and that led him to drugs. Things got too much for the mother, so she took her daughter, and he took his and they left. Over the years, dad worked on himself and decided to forget our mum and get better so he'd be a better dad for me. We had some of the happiest years together but also some of the toughest times together, but I stuck with him through all of it. The moment he left the drugs, he abandoned me and went back to them. The little I know of my mother is that she is an actress and supermodel. She is a Russian, Brazilian Italian woman who came from a Russian father whom I know is also a soldier and a Brazilian Italian mother known for being a Chef. She does have siblings that I know nothing about, and she has 6 other kids aside from me and the twin, two older siblings from her first marriage and four younger kids from my father. I was a part of her life for a very short time while they were still together. We lost contact and haven't heard from her since, which I'm grateful for. "I haven't told him about you and Dalton yet," said Bonnie after we had dinner. "" Are you afraid of what he may do when he does find out? " I asked her. " No, I just don't know how he's going to react. " " I really don't care what he thinks, I do plan on announcing it to my followers soon, " I said. She knew nothing of the arrangement. My father-in-law never told her. " Should I give you time to tell him first?" " Do as you please. It's not like he cares about you anyway. " I finished my dinner and went to bed.