The Power Of Love And Vengeance

CHAPTER ONE

They  say that love is  everything, and that it has the power to make or break us. They say that it is so powerful , and it's  like a burning fire. It burns deep inside us .And the best part is should  I say is the worst  part is that if we don't  control that fire, it can burn and ruin us. Living us bare , with patches all over our bodies or in any other cases our hearts . Not even cosmetic surgery  can fix us.

    Ooh am sorry, where are my manners that my mom or should I say I taught  myself. My name is  Ava,am 17 years old. I love in kansas city. I live  with  my parents and two older  siblings. Am the last born. My mum Nikki is a paediatrician and my  father James O'connor   is a doctor.
         My brother  Luke is just a playboy  in college  and so is my sister  Amber.Can I just ask, what is  wrong with people  named Amber?Why Re they always mean and think  that they are always beautiful  when something , well they are but nor on the inside. Just look at Amber fr on Sofia The First ,joy she always behave thinking  she was the most beautiful  in the entire  Kingdom. Well she  wasn't  wrong but  Sofia was also  beautiful.
        Anyway, enough  about that.So basically  we are the O'connor.we aren't  famous  or anything  but we are well known considering  my parents  are doctors. I have a boyfriend  whose name is Aiden  and I can positively  confirm  we are madly in love  .
       Tomorrow  is my eighteenth birthday  and I can wait for it. Although  no one is going to wish me  a happy birthday,  because  no one in my family  likes or even loves me. I know  you might be wondering  why but, they have expressed  their  hate for me ever since I  turned five years old.They starve me, beat me up and am literally  the maid of the house.
       I do  the dishes, clean the house,do their laundry  and still I'm expected to go to school. Am glad that school  is over and I will be going to college  and leaving  them behind  so that I won't  see them anymore.  Apart from the holidays, and that is if I feel like it .
          Anyway back to my birthday, I am so excited that I can't keep still. Not that am going to get gifts or anything, no not really because  I have no friends. But, it's  because am going to meet Aiden  later. He said  he had a surprise waiting  for me.

       I am so caught up in my own thoughts  of Aiden,  that I don't  hear "barbie" , my sister Amber ,who resembles  a barbie  doll due to her many   cosmetic surgerys calling me.
     "Hey peasant , mom and dad are calling  you  down  stairs." She looks at my face. "Are you even listening to  me? Bitch i am talking  to you?"Amber snaps her fingers in front of  my face.

      "Uuh yeah, sorry. I just got caught up  in my own thoughts for a little  while." I answer her.She looks at me annoyed  that she had to repeat herself again. She huffs and sashays out of my bedroom  with a 'whatever '.
        Mmh, I guess someone  is not in a good  mood today. It must be her periods. But with her ,you  never know because sometimes  I think she's  bipolar. Who am I kidding,  she is bipolar.

  I wonder  what mom and dad want that they oh so graciously  summoned me for? Well let me say a little prayer and confess my sins before I go, as it may be my last day on earth. "Dear God, I know I've  done you so many wrongs and am asking for forgiveness. I pray that today before  something  happens to  me that you will forgive me  and make a place for me in heaven, Amen."

    I rush down  the stairs  nearly tripping to see everyone sitting and waiting  for me."Here goes nothing." I say to myself.
     "Glad to see that you  finally decided to join us.Take a seat." My mum all but sneered. I took a seat  and looked at  my so called  family and the  love of my life wondering  what was so important  that they summoned  me for.

" We wanted to tell you that your sister Aiden are getting  married  and that they  are expecting  a baby." My mother told me with a smug smile on her face.

        I was  so shocked and thought  this was just another sick plan they had to make me feel miserable  again on my birthday,  like the other birthdays where they would play a cruel prank on me. I looked at them laughing thinking that they really got me there.
      "What are you laughing  about? Aiden and I are really getting married. Isn't  that right baby?" She looked at Aiden with a huge  smile on her face. I also turned to look at him, and what I saw broke my heart into two.
         Aiden turned to Amber with and held her face in the palm of his hands and kissed her passionately  on the lips. He then turned to me with a wicked smirk curled at the corners of his lips.
"Yes mia amor we are getting married. We should  invite her yo our wedding,don't  you think baby?" He told Amber all while his eyes were still on me.
            "Eww no! We can't  have her come to our wedding and contaminate the guests now, can we? I mean a want a perfect wedding like Harry and Megan's. I don't  want commoners there." Said Amber  while looking at me with disdain.
     "Your  right love we don't want commoners there." Aiden smiled at her.     Tears started to form at the corners of my eyes. I felt some of the starting  to drop. All of a sudden, they broke loose like the Niagara falls. The only question  that was running  through  my head was why. Why did he do that to me when he told me that he love me. That I was his moonlight, his oxygen to breathe, his ride and die.
      I thought that my tears fell like water wax streaming down my cheeks onto lap. I could not find my voice as I tried to open and shut my mouth like a gaping fish. I swallowed  the thick fluid in my throat  and voiced out the only question  I wanted the answer to.
          "Why?" I wanted to know why they hated so much . Why couldn't  they love as the loved Amber. Why they chose to neglect and abuse me instead of showing me love and affection. Why did Aiden lie to me. Did he love me at all or was that just a lie.
       "Ooh sweet cheeks,you think I could ever like or even love a girl like  you?" He said chuckling. "If you think I did ,then think again. This was just a net between Luke and I to see if I could charm you to thinking I was in love with you." He smirked.
      "It was just so easy you know. Your  such a naive and gullible person . You believed everything  I fed into that that ugly head of yours enough for you to sleep with me." He laughed his melodious love which used to and still give me butterflies  looking me in my eyes and said " I never loved you and never will. You were a bet I and that was it. Love Amber  and am going to marry and take care of our baby.  Get  that through  your ugly head." He sneered ruefully  at me .looking at me as if I was dirt beneath his shoes.

        I looked into his dark blue eyes that used to make me weak I  the knees and make tingles appear everywhere  in my body. All I saw in his eyes were disgust and hate for me. There was no emotion of love or even remorse  in them.
      At the corner of my eyes I saw my Luke, my mother and father laughing and rejoicing at my pain. "Ooh, looked at her.She looks like she's  going to pass out. Maybe we should get her a glass of water. She looks so pale." Said my mother in mock empathy.
     "You are a disgrace  to me. Why could  you die instead  of you twin brother." My father said bitterly while looking at me. "It's  your fault he drowned in that lake. If you hadn't  insisted  he joined you , he would still be here with us. I hate you." Luke shouted at me with his fists curled and tears glistening  in his eyes.

   "From now onwards,  you are no longer welcomed in this family . We have tolerated your presence  for so long and now that you have finished high school , you should pack your bags and live." My father shouted at me.
    All along I couldn't  form a word. Tears were streaming down my eyes. I was drowning  in self hate and guilt for what happened  to my  twin brother. I wasn't  even my fault. They never cared to know what  really  happened  that after noon and decided to pin the blame on me. It's  not like they will even belive me even if I told them what really  happened. They have already made up their minds.
    " What are you waiting for. You are no daughter  of mine.what kind of sick child would kill their own twin? I hate you and regret the day I gave birth yo you" My mother told me while pulling at my hair across the threshold  of the house.
    She dragged me out out the house." Go away you whore.You are just a waste of time, space and oxygen. " Amber called out to me while laughing  together with Aiden.
    I stood outside of the gate as the guard locked it following  my parents instructions. I had no where to go, no friends  nor family. I literally  had no one. Nothing. Not even clothes to change into. I fell backwards and rested back on the iron gates and cried to God .Asking him why he brought  me into this world. Begging him to kill me all along thinking of where and how to star my new life.