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Aurora

"Have a wonderful day, dear," Aunt Verna said as I shouldered my pink and blue rucksack.

"Eat your breakfast," Merriweather added.

"And be kind," finished Aunt Flora.

They all smiled warmly at me and I returned the gesture. I gave them each a kiss on the cheek and left for school.

I walked towards the main road in the overgrown gravel path that led to my aunts' house.

Luckily, I lived in the same general area as "Prince" Phillip Stevens. He always met me at the end of the gravel road to walk with me to the bus stop. We sat together on the bus, too. Something about him just made everything seem easier.

I wished that I didn't need him to feel like my opinions were valued.

Okay, yes. I was a bit of a dumb blonde, but it's not that hard to figure out when your parents wanted a divorce.

My mother and father really loved each other at first, they truly did. But they had very different views on their relationship.

My father wanted to hurry up and start a family, but my mother was still settling into married life. Two years after their marriage, father started seeing a woman from his work, Mallori Audley.

When mother found out that she was pregnant with me, father felt guilty and broke it off with Mallori.

But it didn't end there.

Father didn't tell mother about Mallori, and that's how Mallori rooted her revenge.

She took off of her job, telling her boss that she had cancer, which was a lie. After I was born, she applied to be my babysitter (I needed one due to a lack of geographically close relatives and my parents difficult work schedule).

When father tried to refuse, she threatened to tell my mother of his disloyalty. He was 'forced' to give her the job.

After about two weeks of peaceful babysitting, Mallori attempted to kill me via poison.

If not for Christmas gatherings and the impeccable timing of my aunts Flora, Verna, and Merriweather, I would have died.

Mallori was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Shortly after her sentence, she wrote to my mother and told her all that had happened. She explained her motives and how she did it, either just to rub it in my mother's face or to give evidence that could lead to a longer sentence.

Nevertheless, my mother found out.

My parents stayed together to raise me (and out of guilt because of my condition). but their marriage had become worse than ever. Mother never forgave father for his dishonesty, so their relationship never mended. I knew that they would try to keep it together until I left for college.

At least that's what Merriweather told me. She wasn't supposed to tell me any of it, but when I asked her why my parents had been yelling at each other, she told me everything.

Flora and Verna weren't happy with my knowing, but they settled with the fact that I would have known eventually.

I never mentioned my knowledge of the subject to my parents, and that seemed to satisfy everyone.

Just then, they began to have "busy work schedules and problems," so I was having to stay with my aunts for the majority of the time.

I would have honestly rather stayed with my caring aunts in the middle of the woods than with my feuding parents in a suburban neighbourhood.