Still Into You

Prologue

My name is Eloise, ever since I can remember, my young mother and my father always seemed to fight. They kept swearing and throwing things at each other. Whenever those things happened, I always pick up my fairy tale books and cut myself from the world. Father always went home drunk and he would hurt Mother. Days after, I heard them fought over Father having different women.

It took only weeks before the marriage fell apart. Father didn't ever come back. He left Mother and I to rot in our two story house. My father's relatives took pity in my youthful yet forsaken mother. They would visit us in the house and leave food and money. Mother never finished high school so she couldn't find a decent job to feed us two. That's when I thought that I'd never ever choose love before my other priorities. That I would finish college and make my dreams come true.

My uncle came for a visit , it was summer back then. He's the younger brother of my father yet he was only five years older than me. Everything that happened afterward was spiteful and unexpected. I buried it down but I couldn't forget how my uncle tried to touch my lips with his.

When I entered grade school, the elders made me stay with my grandmother, the mother of my father. I had two boy cousins where I was living and They were very mean. They always take my toys and the candies I received from my other concerned relatives. They always beat me up. I remember losing all my baby teeth with their punches. Everyday was bad. I had to toughen up, I thought. I learned how to fight back by becoming a tough and mean boy myself. On our last kid fight, I coughed out blood. Grandmother decided to have me adopted by her sister-in-law.

Mama Arisa, what everyone calls her, took me and reared me up to this day.