Under the Stars |✓

13

When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars.

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I stared at the building in front of me. The building were my family stayed in.  The building that I was supposed to call home.

I tried to make this building a home. My home. I tried to ignore the hard feelings I received from my family. Enduring and being satisfied that at least I get to still have shelter and food and education. But now it seems like it has all been taken away from me. I lost everything.

I stood and observed every nook and cranny of this house. The memories I held and cherished the most were mostly filled with my sister and I, sometimes my dad too.

I saw the almost faded hand print that my sister and I made as children on the wall at the left side of the house, almost near the ground. My dad was painting the house at the time, said he wanted the walls to be a new colour. My sister and I were playing outside, when we decided to both put our small hands into the paint pail and mark our handprints on the wall. I remember dad chuckling and marking his handprint as well.

Growing up, I never complained about anything in my life. I didn't have the need to. In my head, I had the best family a girl could ever ask for. My twin sister who was my best friend, my dad and mom. At least my dad made effort to actually be a father to me. My mom on the other hand, never paid any attention to me, but she did to my sister.

As a child, I thought it was normal. Apparently it wasn't. She just hated me.

I sighed painfully and hiked my suitcase up with my left hand. I walked down the pathway leading away from the doorstep of my house. If I can still call it that.

I glanced at my sister's window. The light bulb was switched on and I could make out a shadow standing by the window side.

So Lily was around. She was in there and she did nothing to help me. Did I really not matter to her?

I couldn't make out her face or anything, because her window was closed and it was almost dark outside. I gazed at her shadow for a while as she stood there before I turned and continued on my way to God knows where.

I'm pretty sure she was happy now. I was no longer a bother to them. It was what they all wanted after all. They hated me. Everyone did. No one wanted anything to do with me.

Me, the the weird- eyed human girl from another planet who was hated by her own family.

They wanted me gone out of their lives?

Well, now their wish was fucking granted.

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Please excuse her language.