Words of Sara: Chapter one - Just once

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I knew about him.
I knew about her.
I knew about all of them.
I always knew.

No one ever believes me but I knew they were there. I knew they were here.

My parents said that it was my active imagination and maybe it was at the time but, they never focused on me long enough to know what I knew. My Parents never knew and probably never will.

This past year was the year I forgot about knowing. I thought my parents were right but my parents were never right when it really counted at home and this time, I was right; I'm the one that knew. The time that I didn't only know, I thought, I saw, and I believed.

My parents weren't home; they never were now that I was 18. Both of them had the same schedule. Wake up early, Get home late and spend one day a month with their daughter. They were both workaholics that's how they met. My mom is a proud CEO of a huge Mexican restaurant and My dad is a stock broker. Both make a lot of money. Both inherited a lot of money, and both live for their money.

They weren't ever home, not today and not tomorrow.

For once I didn't like that. For once I wanted my mom to be home to cradle me and to tell me it was alright. I wanted my dad to be home to protect me and to tell me to back away holding one of his antique swords from the revolutionary war.

Just in this moment. Just once. I was afraid.

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