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SPRING…
It’s been thirteen months since Momma passed on. I bet you’re wondering if anything got better over time? Not a single thing. Living with Dad and Donny wasn’t easy at all. My father would give me lectures about how dating is a sin and no one would ever want to date me anyway because I’m a disguising, filthy demon. Oh how I’ve heard that my whole life. Except…when Momma was alive, she would try to keep me sheltered from my father’s words. Now no one is here to protect me. And Donny, he’s gone completely off his rocker. When Dad’s not beating me mentally Donny’s beating me physically. If I don’t do as he says I get hit. He’s always saying “I love you, you know that, but this is the only way to get you under control.” or “It’s for your own good. If you’d just listen in the first place, Tara.” I couldn’t even count how many times I contemplated suicide. But if I did, I wouldn’t ever see Momma again…and I can’t live with that.
So finally I have a shot at life. College at U.C. Sunnydale. Freedom. I pack my bags ahead of time. Not that I have many things. I bring all of my witchcraft books and spell ingredients. And my blade. Dad tried to refuse to let me go but I ended up winning the conversation, how I will never know. Donny drives me all the way up to Sunnydale. I wish we had flown instead. Alabama is a long ride. It was fairly silent though. I sat in the back seat just in case he got angry with me. When we finally arrived, I was so relieved. Birds were singing, people laughing, the sky shining down as if only to dissolve my sadness. It felt good. As if for a moment…just a moment, Momma was looking down at me and the sun was her face. I looked up and smiled at her. A second later Donny honked the horn and yelled “Well, what you looking at the damned sky for? You think you gonna find God up there or sunthin?” I turned to him and blinked my eyes, keeping them closed for a just long enough to take everything in, and then I turned toward campus and walked. I didn’t look back. Not once…
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