Chapter 1.38: Is Love Worth It?

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"Daddy, I don't understand. Why do you stay with mother if she is an asshole?" the teen asked her father. She couldn't for the life of her understand why he wouldn't divorce her mother, was love really worth staying with such an awful person? The teen would only shake her head as her father tried yet again to explain to her why he didn't divorce her mother.

"I love her, and when you love someone you take a vow to stand by them no matter what they do. I am an honorable man, and I won't break my vow with your mother. Besides if I didn't have your mother I wouldn't have you and I'd be incredibly lonely," the man explained to his daughter. He smiled at her and took her hands in his gently before kissing the top of her hands. She rolled her eyes, and then smiled at him. She had the greatest father in the world, he never let her want for anything and he had been so patient with her as a child.

"Okay daddy," the teen said and went inside to get something to eat. Her mother would have a heart attack if she saw what she was wearing, but she didn't care. She hated her mother for treating father like shit all the time.


"What in the heavens are you wearing?! You look like hoodlum! Like one of those street rats who buys second hand clothes!" Mother yelled at her as she ate her macaroni. Yeah, it was great. She just shrugged it off like she had been doing for the past ten years. "Don't ignore me young lady, we are not done with this conversation! I did not buy you nice clothes so you could wear rags!" her mother continued yelling.

"I'm sorry mother," the teen said, yawning. It was already exhausting listening to her mom bitch at her, why couldn't she wear what she wanted to? Ever since she turned ten five years ago her mother had constantly complained that she didn't present herself like a young lady. Her father would sometimes try and talk to mother on her behalf. Mother would scream at him and tell him he was a terrible father for letting her wear what she wanted to.

She had stopped going to her father about mothers complaining because she hated to see him get called horrible things and yelled at because of her. Sometimes, she wore the dresses her mother sets out for her just to have a day without yelling and fighting. On those days, she wasn't herself. She wasn't the free teenage girl she wanted to be. She was the prim and proper lady her mother was, she was the red headed version of her mother.

She stood there as father cleaned the glass desk table, and shook her head. "I thought cleaning was a woman's job," she said. Father laughed, smiled and turned to look at her. She knew he loved her, and felt it every time she talked to him.

"It is, but you're mother needs a break," Father said. She laughed bitterly, who was he kidding?

"Mother doesn't clean, she just yells into the maid or butler to clean," she said.

"Very true, sweetheart," Father said, still smiling.

Author's Note: This is the first of many special chapters with this family. The POV for the other chapters will still be in first person.

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  1. CeCeAugust 10, 2017 at 12:51 PM

    Um... who are these people? Am I crazy for not recognizing them? Are they some kindly vampire family that Serene is gonna start hunting?

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