Why Me ✓ (FINAL EDITS)

Prologue

EMERSON FINDLAY

I fluttered my eyes open in the middle of the night because of the same nightmare that I'd had for a long time now.

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In that, my mother and father took me to Mr. and Mrs. Jonz's house. I had seen them in some of the gatherings earlier. They seemed like good people but, their daughter was never that nice to me. We both studied in the same middle school, but she had never even looked at me. Not even when I tried to wave at her.

In their house, all of the adults asked me to play in the living room while the four of them went into one of the rooms 'to talk'. I tried to play something and keep myself busy but soon got bored. So, I decided to go back to Mom and Dad.

When I was about to open the door to the room where they were, I heard my name," Look, we know it would be difficult for you too but, please take care of her till she is legal and then.....", my dad trailed off. Then, Mrs. Jonz' said," Then what? Leave her to survive on her own? Why do you even want to leave her?" I was getting a hint of the current predicament out of it but, I wanted to hear more. "You don't get it. We are bankrupt and are leaving this country. We cannot take Emma with us. She is just a liability for us right now. We cannot even give her an average life right now. When I came to know that I was going to have her, I thought I would be able to manage but, now I realize I cannot be a good mother to her. I.... I....We.....we don't know what to do.", Mom said. And this was enough for a ten - year old to hear. My very own parents didn't love me. They wanted to abandon me. I was just a liability.

I remember I had run off somewhere; it was a dark corner, where I could cry. The entire time, I waited for them to call for me but, they didn't even care. I didn't even realize when I fell asleep. The following day, I woke up when Mr. Jonz came for me. I clearly remember him making an excuse that my parents had to go somewhere because of work and that I would stay with them for some months. I didn't say anything. I just went into the room they gave me. My bags were already kept there.

After that, they usually made me do their work whenever they needed to. But, their daughter, Claire went a notch higher by making me do all her work. And now, because that was the only place I could say I belonged to, I never refused to do anything. After I got my degree and became an adult, I started working somewhere or the other to pay my own expenses and pay them rent. When I told them that I would pay them the rent from a random month onwards, they agreed without any hesitation. I owed it to them, I thought with a wry smile.

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After remembering every last detail of the past few years like it was just yesterday, I looked at my alarm clock and saw I still had a lot of time and went back to sleep. Tomorrow was my first day of a new job and I needed rest.

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Started :- 10 December '17
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