Lia and Felix

~ Introduction to Lia's Life ~

I'm Lia. My real name is Piper Gnaush but after escaping my old childhood home I changed it. I still had a legal last name but I didn't consider it relevant to my story. Ever since I was really young I felt alone. I always had one friend, and even though his friends told him I was no good, he stood by me.

Felix is a strong, compassionate young man, his black hair has grown down the back of his neck and he's honestly perfect. I've known him for so long I can't even remember when we met. We were children, in a play school. I grew up in an area where no one was like me, most people taught their children to be wary of people like me. I would get stuff thrown at me and get called slurs.

I was badly abused at home, both my guardians were alcoholics and my female guardian was a heroin addict. I'd suffer through hours of them arguing and then after both of them taking out their anger on me. I always thought it was my fault they got angry, that I had done something wrong when I clearly hadn't. I was so tired. I wanted to end it all.

They weren't my parents and they never will be. They were just abusers who used me for their own merriness and joy. They didn't care about me, only about themselves and knowing that as a 6 year old absolutely broke me.

Home is not a place. Home is a person or a group. Felix is my home. He makes me feel safe and I can always talk to him about anything with no judgement. We've been through a lot together which I believe is why we've managed to stay so close. He always made time for me and I can always trust him no matter what.

Felix's mother and my guardians were friends but they thought I was odd. My birth giver had cheated on my male guardian with a black man, they were both strict white Catholics. My guardians "resolved" their issues after she went to confession to repent her sins but that did nothing but made the situation worse. 

I was born with vitiligo, where my skin has two varying colours. I'm white on some parts of my body but black on the other. Felix thinks it makes me unique and gorgeous, many others thought quite the opposite. This outraged my guardians more knowing this man had left his mark on me. Many people looked down on me because of how I looked and how my skin colour wasn't up to society's standards, and I guess it never will be.