Age 8:
"Hi Mum." I smiled coming into the kitchen. "Hello baby! There is someone I want you to meet." Mum announced. I signed and rolled my eyes, this was never good. Mum went through many different boyfriends all totally useless and normally broke up with her after a week. "Don't look like that. Cameron is different from the others, he really cares about me." "Sure, sure." I laughed. "So when do I meet him?" "This afternoon. He's taking to lunch." Mum smiled looking all gooey eyed.
"Hi Lottie, I'm Cameron!" Cameron said. "Hi camera-on.' I replied. "It's Cam-Ron!" Cameron corrected his face hardening quite suddenly. "Ok Com-Ron." "It's Cam-Ron!" Cameron shouted banging his fist against the table as I flinched backwards. "It's ok honey she'll learn." Mum smiled stroking Cameron's arm and kissing him. "Your right. Sorry Lottie, I didn't get much sleep last night so I'm a little cranky. What do you want for lunch?"
1 month later
"Hello Le-tee." Cameron snarled coming into the house. He'd taken to calling me this since our first meeting when I'd pronounced his name wrong. "Hi Cameron." I said looking at the floor. "Look me in the face please." Cameron said. "No." I whispered tears dripping down my face. "Look at my FACE!" He shouted. "Please no, Cameron." I wept touching the scar on my face from last time. "How dare you, you little brat!" He screeched slapping me so hard I fell to the floor. "Cameron your here!" Mum beamed coming in. "Mummy." I screamed getting up of the floor and running to her. "What?" Mum snapped which was very unlike her. "Cameron hit me! Break up with him! Break up with him!" I cried. "Look honey." Mum said her voice softening as she crouched down to my level. "One day you'll understand. You'll like...maybe even love a boy and you'll put him above everything else and then it will make sense and you'll forgive me."
Present time:
And then I realised. I'd done exactly what my mum had. I'd put Joe before everyone else. I'd broken the heart of a good friend Casper, I'd put Zoe and Alfie through hell and lost an amazing realationship we'd started to build and all for a boy just like mum said I would. I was turning into my mother and there was nothing I could do to stop it except...break up with him.
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Adopted by Zalfie
FanfictionWatching Zoe and Alfie's videos is the only bright thing in Lottie's miserable life at the children's home but being adopted by them is just some fantasy story, isn't it?
