Not Your Typical Fairytale

Chapter 2

As a kid things were always hid from

me. Every family has secrets though.

Even if I did know what the secrets

were, I was too young to understand

them. I still have flashbacks or

images that pop in my head telling

me things that  happened. As long as I

can remember everyone has said that

our family is messed up. And as I talk

with people or hear my families

conversations I understand why

everyone says it.

So it started out when I was little.

When I was born my dad was with a

drug addict, which is my biological

mother. She cheated on him every

chance she got with other guys or

even her brothers . My dad didn't

care because he had two daughters

he had to care for. Me(Zoey) and my

sister (Lindsey) so he stayed because

he felt obligated to. I still remember

the day I walked in the hospital to see

Lindsey after she was born. I was

walking down the hallway holding

my dad's hand and saw my biological

mom holding her in her arms. Of

course at that time I was jealous of

her because I was the favorite

because I was the only child and had

no cares .. I was only 3 so I didn't

know what I was thinking, but as

Lindsey grew older and was able to

talk we kinda stuck together. We still

had our fights like every normal

sister's would, but we still loved each

other. We lived with our grandma

and her 5 grandchildren klarie,

klarissa, Kylie, Brody, and Colby. We

all hung out, but definitely not all the

time got along. Klarie and Brody were

the nicest to me and we pretty much

never argued, and klarissa and Kylie

were stuck together like glue, they

did everything together, and Colby

was pretty independent and quite

frankly annoying. He would eat

onions and breathe in our faces and

weird stuff like that.. The reason we

lived with them is because my dad

finally got the courage to get custody

of us and leave the addict. My

biological mother hated the fact that I

loved her best friend more than her. I

refused to.do anything without her.

As long as I can remember I was

always with her. I had other family,

but I didn't visit them much. My dad

took us to see my biological mother

every now and then. I still remember

when I asked her how babies were

made and she called my dad and they

told me it is from parents "fighting".

My dad was basically with a different

girl every week, but we didn't think

anything about it because we were so

young. I used to tell him "go to the

mall and get girlfriends there, like

they do off the movies". He would

laugh at me and say," it is not that

simple Zoey". I would just brush it off

not knowing what it meant. But

eventually he got together with my

biological mother's best friend that I

loved and stayed with her for 7 years.

We seemed like a perfect family, but

we still had our flaws. Because we

had so many people in a house we

had to share beds and rooms. Well

my cousin klarie and I were talking

on the top of bunk beds while our

family was in the kitchen and she

looked at me and said" Let's play

house and I'll be the dad" Well

innocent child me didn't know what

the problem was so I agreed and she

got on top of me and at that moment

my uncle walked in and she rolled off

of me knowing what she was doing

and lied to him saying she was

"playing with her toes". But I was so

young I didn't know what it meant

until I got older. My uncle told my

family, who felt sorry for me because

according to my uncle "she raped me"

but the thing is she tried and didn't

succeed. After that we started

growing apart because I was scared

of her. So I stuck with Brody who

hung out with me. Even as I grew

older I tried to forget what Klarie did

to me and started hanging out with

her again, but my cousin's knew

about it. Even years later they would

tell me not to hang out with her

because she "raped" me. It would

bother me and I would cry saying it

was years ago. As time progressed my

dad broke up with my mom(that's

how I refer to her((my biological

mothers friend)) and he started

dating again accusing her of cheating.