The girl next door

Ayra's backstory

I didn't really get to explain everything that happened when I was younger. So, like I said my mom was my hero. I used to live with her full time and sometimes had visitation with my dad one days that he could actually some pick me up and wasn't drowning in a bottle somewhere bitching about how 'horrible my mom is'. At least she stayed. Well, for a while. My mom was my everything, she would patch me up when I was hurt, she would tuck me in at night and read me stories, she would play with me when my "friends" had left. She was my hero. She was everything I wanted to be and more. But, as I got older my mom got colder and meaner. She wouldn't laugh with me anymore, when I got hurt I had to start patching myself up. Sure, I had to grow up sometime but I was 9. I still wanted someone to hug me when I was sad, or play with me when my "friends" had left me for someone cooler, I was still a kid. Once I turned 13 my mom just left. I woke up one morning and she was gone. No warning to where she was going, if or when she'd be back, nothing. So, I called her and didn't get an answer. I was terrified. I mean, I had been left in the house all by myself with no warning beforehand. 

I stayed there for a couple days, worried that if I left and she came back she would be mad. And honestly, I couldn't think of anywhere to go. Eventually some neighbors called CPS and I was stuck with my dad. 

Life with my dad was a lot different then life with my mom. My dad was gone all the time, I never knew when he was coming home but at least I knew that he was gonna come home. My dad was drunk almost all the time, but after a while he calmed down a bit on the drinking. He then met his now wife, Charlene. Charlene was everything my mom used to be and more. A couple months after they got married I started calling her mom. She didn't care and started responding to it when I called her that. She actually cried when I called her that for the first time. 

See, Charlene can't have kids of her own but she's always wanted some. But because she couldn't have any she never thought she would hear someone calling her 'mom' and when I did for the first time she was so happy she started crying. She told me: "Ayra, baby come here. I will love you more then anything for the rest of your life. Your real mama didn't treat you the way she should've and I promise you I will. Thank you for giving me the chance to be a mom. To be your mom." 

I love Charlene and everything she's done for us. My dad was a lazy drunk before he met her. No job, no money, didn't even have legal custody over his own kid. But now he hardly drinks, he has a stable job, a stable income, and full custody over me. I was some lonely sad kid, with no mom, no friends, no nothing. I was completely alone. But now I have Charlene, my dad, and Taylor. 

Everything is gonna be just fine.