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I didn't open the letter for days, I didn't even look at the adress she wrote on it, I was to scared.
So, I put the letter in a box, and I didn't look at it for a whole week.
But yesterday, yesterday something happened. I felt ready to look at the letter, even to go to her adress.
So I read the letter... it was my birth certificate.
My father's name wasn't on it, my mother's name was.
When I read her name I couldn't begin to describe what I was feeling.
Her name was also Summers, Dawn Summers.
I had to know more about her, I just had to. I had so many quistions. I wanted to find her. Maybe my cousin knew where she was.
So, I sneaked out of the orphanage, cause for some reason I was still grounded and I went to the adress on the back.
119 PRESCOTT STREET
When I got there I almost didn't go through with it, but I did. I knocked on the door, and my cousin opened the door.
"Hi, have any trouble finding the place ?" She asked me, I just stood there, unable to speak.
"Come in." she opened the door more and I went inside.
I stopped. I had one last quistion before we went in the house any further.
"Hey, what's your full name ? Cause I only know your last name."
She turned to me and said something I'd never expected.
"My name's Dawn, Dawn Joyce Summers."
"Dawn ???" I asked suprised, she couldn't have been my mother, she was to young.
"Yeah, I was named after my aunt, you know, the aunt I said raised me."
That moment my whole world fell apart even more. She was raised by my mother, who couldn't even raise me.
"And where does Joyce come from ?" was the only thing that came in my mind at the time.
"She was my grandmother, I never knew her, but my aunt always calles me Joyce, to avoide confusion between us. You can call me Joyce too, everyone already does."
I didn't say anything, I followed her into the linvingroom.
"Aunt Dawn, it's her. It's Sandy."
There was a woman sitting in a chair, she didn't turn around when Joyce called for her.
She had long brown hair, that was the only thing I could see, then she said something.
"So, she came, she really came."
I recognized the voice, it was that woman I saw that one night, who didn't want to turn around either, it was she who said it was to soon, she was my mother.
Then she stood up, I never thought she'd do that, she stood there for a while, not turning around.
"Prepare yourself." she said, and she turned around.
She was burned all over her face, and her hands, she was probably burned on her arms too, but I couldn't see, cause she was wearing a sweater with long sleeves. It was awfull.
The look in her eyes when she saw me looking at her scars. She didn't want to show them, that much I knew, but still she did.
"I better leave you two alone." Joyce said and she went away.
She could still here her aunt say " Thank you sweety" as Joyce walked away.
My mother sat back down. "You can sit down too, if you like." she said and I sat down too.
"So, you've probably figured out that I'm your mother." she looked me in the eye, I turned away.
She looked a bit sad I did that.
"Yeah, I know, Dawn Joyce said she got her name from her aunt who raised her and from her grandmother."
"Your grandmother was a beautifull woman, nothing like me, she was kind to evryone, even to Spike." and she laughed a bit.
"Spike ?" I asked.
"Eum, just an old euh friend." she didn't really want to say who he was. I wonder if he could be my dad.
Then she changed the subject.
"And how do you like the orphanage ?"
It was unbelieveble she even dared to ask me that.
"It's okay, a family would have been better though. At least they don't ground you for no reason."
"They grounded you ?"
"Yeah, I've been grounded for over a week now, I sneaked out to come and see you."
She looked outside.
"You know, it's getting a bit dark, you better go, and don't tell anyone you came here, and as for you beeing grounded, they probably had good reasons for that, please don't come here alone anymore, if you want to come, just send me a letter and Joyce will come pick you up."
So I left, it was so bizar. I wonder why she wanted me gone so quickly.
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