We all sat in my mom’s bedroom, and I still couldn’t get the image of me and my mom hugging and the fairy wings out of my head, and it was a great memory after all. I remembered her soft laugh and the way she used to tie her hair up whenever she was concentrating on her business with dad. It always filled me with happiness, but her laugh soon disappeared as she packed her things and walked out, keeping the door open to let me see her walk away from me. She made me feel like a mistake, but why do that to your own daughter? I pursed my lips in determination as I set a plan to find out why. I wasn’t a quitter – I am the chosen one, and so many discoveries lay ahead of me.
“Aren’t you going to sleep?” I chuckled as I saw Derek trying to catwalk with a superman flashlight he got on my mom’s ni
