To the Imperfect You

hat her mum had been forced to turn on the radio, a move that annoyed Kim rather tha

. They would be in there. Opening the door to indeed meet her mum's new boyfriend and his friends in the sitting room did nothing to help her mood. As expected, the room stank of men and drugs and alcohol. There were three men today, one of them fast knocked out already. The remaining two were her mum's boyfriend, Ol' Buddy, a skinny Latino man who never wore anything but Hawaiian shirts and his ugly ass friend with the revolting set of teeth, Akim they called him. Bott

her dad who just had to die, sending their lives into a careening nightmare....Tiana's dad whom they didn't even know.....Buddy and his sick stupid friends that stuck around like dirt....herself

ing off it, but all that didn't matter compared to the feeling of having her sister curled into her, her curly hair tickling Kim's no

roud of y

s voice as she asked in a small voice.

rung into her eyes. She hoped Tiana didn't notice how choked she sounded

r if I came top of the c

ana's hair. She didn't trust herself to speak, and so she kept quiet. After a while, her si

he was doing more harm than good herself by not opening Tiana's eyes to the truth. But she wanted to protect this little girl from the world as much as could. She wanted to protect her from their mother. And the only way she could do that was if she was here, by her side. As bad as the situations were, she couldn't risk upturning