based on a true story
It was a week before christmas. Joy hung in the air around her as she gathered her thoughts. it was a saturday evening. Her parents were divorced she had to have an early christmas for her mother. in the past it was any normal christmas, the whole family around the tree, mom, dad and the two daughters filled with the joy and the elders on their way. but this year it all changed. her sister moved with her dad. her mom went into depression and she was alone. christmas rolled around and here we are at saturday evening. her fake christmas eve and tomorrow her fake christmas. she sat around the table and ate a fake christmas dinner, a pizza. but it didn't feel right. this didn't feel like it was supposed to, something was wrong and she knew it. Christmas will never be the same. she went to her dads that next week and real christmas came. that morning she sat at the tree and broke. surrounded by strangers. the only familiars are her dad and sister but someone was missing. she knew after the divorce nothing would be the same, she just didn't know it would hurt this bad. she ran to her room and burst in tears, she realized it. Her family was separated and broken and it would never be the same.
She was broken.
