I heard my step-mom & sister planning to get rid of me just so they don't have to share inheritance. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Tears rolled down my eyes as I hid in the shadows listening to them conspiring to separate my father and I. I felt so betrayed as I loved them more than anything. I obeyed everything my step mom said and gave up my happiness to keep my sister happy. I couldn't stand there listening any more I ran out of there into the pouring rain sobbing and shaking. And there she was again the lady with her crooked teeth and a nasty scar on her left cheek. I have seen her watching me while I go to school and come back, when I go outside to shop or go out with my friends, she was everywhere I was always watching my next move. It's like she is prying into my life with her beautiful emerald eyes which was the most beautiful feature in her face. She seemed pretty old but not really old just about my father's age.
I kept on running ignoring the lady but halfway across the road I slipped and fell into a daze. There was a sharp pain in my head. Everything was a blur my eyes started closing and the last thing I saw was two emerald eyes. I jolted awake from the sound of clattering plates which was very unusual at my home. But when I looked around I realized I wasn't home this was a small cozy room with books covering half of the room and the other half with pictures. My head was throbbing and when I touched my head it was all bandaged up. My eyes started wandering around the room until my eyes caught on a picture of a father, mother and their daughter I presume in a park all smiling and happy. I walked towards it to have a closer look and I was shocked. I couldn't believe what I was seeing it was my father and I in the picture and the lady who keeps following me. I was there years in the picture because I have seen this same picture in my home but the picture of the lady was cut out . I always questioned my father about the cut out figure but he got all fidgety and refused to give me a proper answer instead made up some story that while we were taking a picture a woman walked by so he cut out the picture. But now that I was seeing the actual picture I am looking at my birth mother she had emerald eyes who I have never seen in my life before because my father and step mom never showed me even a picture of her or ever talked about her and her family. My mom and dad looked young in the picture I guess they were in their twenties. I could feel two eyes behind me watching me . I turned around and it was the lady she was standing there in the door frame with two cups of hot tea. We sat down and started drinking the tea in silence my eyes scanning the new room while her eyes were fixed on me. She called my name " Alicia " and my eyes scanning the room suddenly stopped on her face. Her emerald eyes same as my mother's. She started telling me stuff about my childhood and my father. She was correct about everything. I can't believe it a question raised in my head " Is she my mother? " before I could ask her anything she told me that she was my mom's sister and was searching for years to find me as my father just disappeared with me one night after my mother was bed ridden from a car accident. There was a rush of emotions in me happy because I met my aunt and know my mom is still alive. Sad that my father has hid this from me for years and angry my dad could do something horrible as leaving my mother when she needed him the most. I hugged my aunt tightly sobbing into her shoulders telling her about what I heard my step mom and sister said about getting rid of me. She cupped my face and promised me they are not going to do anything and I am going to be safe and back with my mother and grandparents. My heart was all warm and happy tears where rushing down my face. My aunt wiped away my tears and we marched into my home where my father had his head on hand sitting in the chair. When he looked up I saw tears in his eyes he ran up to me and pulled me in a hug and started apologizing to me. Our maid like me overhead My step mom and sister conspiring and told my father. And he was furious with her and told them to live my father and I this instance. I hugged him back and forgave him after our heartwarming moment. His eyes fell on my aunt and they got as big as an owl's. My aunt had anger and disgust on her face looking at my father. But I told my aunt to give my father another chance at first she refused but after lot of nagging she obliged. The next day we took a flight to Florida and after a taxi ride we came to a two story house. It looked old yet so beautiful. We walked in where we came face to face with an old couple my grandparents who I am meeting for the first time. I jumped in their open arms welcoming me after a tearful introduction we walked up the stairs to a room filled with pictures, books and on the bed lay a woman her eyes closed sleeping peacefully. I walked up to the bed and sat beside her waiting for her to open her eyes. After a while her eyes slowly opened and I saw two beautiful emerald eyes looking back at me . At first she didn't recognize me but after seeing my father realization hit her. She shot upright unable to move her legs as she was paralyzed waist down. Her arms around me speaking quickly kissing me across the face and which ended with her holding me close to her chest she looked at my father with no traces of anger and beckoned him closer and then we had a group hug. My father promised to never leave my mother again. After a week my father fell on his knees and asked my mother to marry him at the same exact park we took the picture fourteen years ago. After a month there we were in a church with both my parents family. My mom was carried down the aisle by my grandfathers. I was a maid of honour. The e preacher wed them and they kissed. At the reception my mom, dad and I danced together with smiles on our faces. Happy to be together again.
