*Ashlees POV*
Ever since mama died nothing has been the same around here. Yea sure the days still go on. We still get feed. Still do our daily chores. Still go to school. But the happiness has been drained.
Daddy's not the same anymore. Neither is Brady, or Kaitleen, I don't think Noah will ever get over it.
But everyone thinks I've got it worst. I was mama's little girl. Always have been always will be. Usually people don't think parents pick favourites.. But boy do ours ever! Daddy likes Brady we all think because he was born first and hes a boy so he can carry on the family name and of course.... The farm. Thats all daddy will ever care about . The farm this, the farm that. blah blah blah.
Mommy always called me her little caterpillar.... I'm not her little caterpillar anymore.. Ever since shes been gone I've had to grow up. I don't even feel like a butterfly.
I'm Ashlee. The second oldest in my family. First theres Brady hes 18 and will be leaving for college once school starts up again, thats if daddy lets him leave. Then theres me, I'm 17 and I'm gonna be a senior when we go back to school FINALLY! Next theres Kaitleen shes 15 and starting 10th grade, and then theres Noah, Hes the bady of the pack hes starting 8th grade this year and he's 13. All teenagers. When mama died thats the first thing daddy worried about. How am I gonna handle four teenagers blah blah blah. Truth is he isn't much of a father figure anyways all he does is drink, smoke and farm.
*Bradys POV* I remember that morning just like it was yesterday. I woke up to the sounds of the ambulance pulling away and the crys of my little sisters and brother. I rememeber running out seeing daddy on the floor. I'd never seen my father cry before. Not gonna lie I kind of liked it seeing all hes put us through. At first I thought maybe something was wrong with our dog Maggie but when Ashlee looked at me and I looked into her bright green eyes I knew.....
Starting off summer without mama was probably the hardest thing our family has ever had to go through. I graduated without my mom sitting there in the stands clapping the loudest.... .I was valedictorian and everything. I made a special part in my speach just for mama. But she wasn't even there to hear it.
Daddy works me really hard lately. Its only July 3rd and hes already got me working harder than I did all school year round. I'm going off to college in September. Daddy doesn't know that yet... He expects me to stay at the farm forever. Take over the name when he retires. But truth is, I really don't want to. I've always wanted to be a doctor ever since I was a little boy.
I remember sometime I was around the age of 5. Mama was sitting down with Ashlee who was 4 at the time, Kaitleen who was 2 and the brand new baby Noah. I ran out with the doctor set grandma Evans had got me for Christmas and I began to bandage up them all .Instantly I fell in love.
Thats why its been so easy for me to keep up a 90% average all through high school. I've always wanted to be a doctor and I was excepted into the best program in the country.... But daddy doesn't need to know that... Daddy wants us all to stay here.. with him.. forever.
