Why I Became Meek

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Prologue

The old plaid couch scratched the backs of my legs as my fathers empty forlorn stare made me squirm. "Darlings, I want you to know that I love you very much and wish with all my heart that I could give you a new momma or raise you to be respectable young ladies myself... But I can't. My heart belongs to your momma... May she rest in peace.... and I am not fit to bring you too up all by myself..." Papa said sullenly.

What the heck is going on.... Papa's been raising us just fine... We are fed at least twice a day and my dress needs to be let down, but I can do that myself...

" That's why you and your sister will go and live with your aunt Thelsey at her school for girls and young ladies." Papa said with a sigh. "Come girls let's head out.... I've packed your bags and they are on the porch... All I have to do is call the cab and you will be on your way to Aunt Thesley." Papa said as he got up and used the black phone to call the cab.

The cab came and Papa loaded our bags into the trunk of the orangeish yellow cab. Papa hugged and kissed my younger sister Alexis and buckled her seat belt when she got into the foul smelling back of the cab.

When I went to get into the cab he pulled me aside onto another hug. He squatted down held me at arms length and stared into my blue grey eyes. "Eliza promise me that you will do anything and everything to keep your sister safe" Papa said in a strained voice.

Alexis was Papa's only peice left of Mama. She looks exactly as Mamma did when she met Papa for the first time at the age of six.

"I will Papa." I replyed in a strong voice even though on the inside my strength was failing and I could feel tears coming. I quickly jumped into the cab and closed the door.

When we got to Aunt Thesley's school for girls and young ladies I paid the van driver with money Papa had given me. Aunt Thesley embraced Alexis and carried her inside.

"Were will we be sleeping?" I asked Aunt Thelsey. She led me to a little room underneath the stairs.

The room contained a mattress, a few shelves and a bare lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. I didn't know it at the time but this was to be my room until I finally escaped Aunt Thesley's house.

Later that night after being forced to cook dinner, do all the dishes, by myself, and start the laundry for the next day, I decided I would beg Aunt Thesley for her to let Alexis to room in one of the student's dormitories.

"No! And if you don't go back to cleaning and doing everything that I tell you to do.... You AND Alexis will be out on they streets!" Aunt Thesley yelled at me in disugst.

I wouldn't have believed her if it weren't for the hatred in her eyes and the scar she left on my back after hitting me with the buckle end of a belt.

I never knew my aunt hated me until then. And I still don't know why she hates me. But I do know that moment was when I decided I would learn to do and submit to anything I'm told do. That is the moment I became meek for my little sister.