Prologue

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  Glaring grudgingly, I watched as the rain poured and soaked my blonde hair. How naive I was to think that love actually exists. To think that mother and father were perfect, no flaws in their relationship at all. Oh how wrong I was.
  The images flashing in my mind repeatedly, almost making me go insane. Perfect family? Perfect life? Yeah, sure. Yes, I have everything a teenage girl myself could dream of. A nice car, money, a school where I had plenty of friends. I wasn't bullied. I wasn't beaten. I was fine.
  But that was the problem. I was fine. I wasn't happy. I wasn't sad. I was fine. Nothing else to it. I didn't feel any emotion besides annoyance these days really. Annoyed at my friends for their bubbly laughter, annoyed at my mum for looking at me, annoyed at the weather, and sure as hell annoyed at my father for whatever the hell he did.
  It didn't matter. He could be talking, or even just lifting a brow while watching some American tv show I was into. I wanted to slap him, to scream and just let out all my pent up rage.
  Love. What a stupid idea.
    I looked up, staring up into the dreary sky that seemed to be reflecting my fowl mood. Feeling my face heat up and tears come pouring down in unshed wrath, I screamed. "I will never fall in love! I swear to the Heavens!"
  I repeated the phrase over and over, until my tongue was numb and my throat was raw with caked blood. Little did I know Aphrodite had decided to take me up on my challenge.

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