To the Imperfect You

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head as she clamped Tiana's sweaty hand tightly in hers was "Lord, let's get home safe please". He mum sat alone in the front seat and her usual smell filled the whole space. Bad breath.....sweat....weed......and a faint smell of what she hoped was not urine. It hap

r heart. Was she finally coming back to them? Of course that had been stupid of her. After the PTA ended by roughly 3:30, they had sat at the parking lot, anxiously awaiting her mum's arrival. Her baby sister had come third in her class and she had been so excited to share the news. She was looking forward to sharing the news with their mum even more. Her beh

o, and that was all the reason she needed to deprive her of it. Like it was the child's fault that her mum had stupidly gone on to get herself pregnant with her, the possible fathers too many count and too worthless to matter either ways. As she constantly liked to say, the only reason she hadn't gotten rid of Tiana in her belly was because she had been far gone before she even realized she was pregnant. Seeing how deep those words hurt Tiana, it had become her

y proud of you". And just by those words, Tiana had clutched her report sheet tighter to her chest and continued to star

he sight of their mum's battered Toyota rounding the corner, but Kim had merely eyeballed the ugly grey car till it finally screeched

ma". She had said shortly, gri

r head towards the back of the car. "Get

come get us?". She had shot back accusingly, all the pent up

ng contest between them till her mum had finally turned to glance at

usly before turning back to their mum. She had only gripped her hand

k slightly with what Kim knew was ex

class?". Their mum, had asked,

g, just one more. That would be all the excuse she needed to pour out the raging words that zapped through her

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