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A/N : above picture is of Trin
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Oww! Another whip by mother's leather belt, across my bare butt. It stung like a million bees kicking and stinging my legs. It was the third hit and I only had to take one more to get back to be grounded.

Mother swung her arm back and another hit by the-turning red-leather kissed my butt once again. She threw me back in my dark room and my elbow nailed right in the side of the wooden frame of my bed.

"Now stay in this room and no dinner for you!" Mother yelled and spat in my face then she turned around, slamming the door behind her.

Damn, even for an Earth she still manages to piss people off. Most Earths are supposed to be calm and nurturing, but my mother is just a pile of squat. She turned rotten when father died and remarried to shit-pile-of-douche Greg. Most people used to say my mother was the nicest, most beautifulest women there was in Durexon, but that didn't last long.

A small squeal was heard from under the bed, which gave me a small heart attack. I looked underneath, careful with my legs and saw two small glowing purple eyes.

"Jacklyn!" I whisper-shouted, but my ribs ached when I did.

"Trin!" she came crawling out.

I was so excited to see her after a long day at school. Her head popped out, then the rest of her unnourished body came after. My heart skipped a beat.

"Jacklyn, what did mom do?" I asked her, looking at her jagged, short-cut hair. I put a hand over my mouth and reached out to her uneven ends. Her once longs beautiful blonde and brown locks were now an uneven bob on her head.

"Mommy did it." The light died out in her eyes after saying those three words.

Anger rolled and swelled more inside of me. Then I brought it down. "Jacklyn come, I'll fix it."

I look her hand and let her to the small bathroom connected to our room. Mom gave us this room so she wouldn't have to see us come out. The lights automatically turned on as we passed the door. I had her sit on the counter. I took out a pair of old fashion scissors and began snipping away. I fixed it were she looked cute with her short hair; it was short on the sides and more longer on the top and it made her curls look like ribbons off a present.

Jacklyn looked in the mirror and smiled so much her cheeks burned red.

"Oh my goodness," she turned around to me and threw her arms around me.

I hugged her back. "Oh, your welcome, Lyn." (the cute nickname I only use for her.)

She let go and smiled big, showing her white teeth.

"And hey, guess what?" I asked her bending down so I was eye level with her.

"What?" she asked, her eyes getting big.

"Isn't it someones birthday tomorrow?" I smiled a playful smile.

Her eyes lit up for the second time. "Yes."

"And do you know who's it is?" I asked her, laughing.

"Mine," she laughed.

"Yes." I picked her up and swung her around in my arms, never wanting to let her go. She laughed and giggled as I tickled her.

"And how old is the birthday girl gonna be?" I jumped with her on the bed and tickled her, more, laughing.

"I'm turning ten!" she pushed out and laughed harder.

I stopped tickling her. "Oh, the birthday girl is turning ten." I smiled, "Well, dang it." I threw my arms in the air. "I'll have to cancel the beer, the dancing men, and casino."

Jacklyn laughed at my sarcasm. "I'm only ten, Trin."

"Well, good 'cause the only thing I got for you is this." I looked under the bed and saw the black blanket wrapped around it and pulled it free. I brought it out and threw the blanket off. It was wrapped of course but it was this beautiful-expensive-wrapping paper I had found from the shops downtown the other week. It was this amazing swirl mixture of metallic blue, purple, and smudges of real gold.

Jacklyn jumped off and hugged me careful not to crush the wrapped box.

"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." she squealed again and again.

"Of course, but you can't open it until tomorrow." I told her.

She pouted. "Fine." And then smiled.

I ruffled a hand through her hair and laughed softly.

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I hope you guys like this. But since I'm more of a fantasy kind of person I can barely write anything realistic.

(I might try in this one.)

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