The Final Goodbyes

Time Went on and bond between Dale and I started to become more and more strained. We moved so much that I began to resent him and Lucy. I couldn't make friends because I wasnt at a school longer than a year. How could anyone make lasting friendships with that kind of time frame?

One day after moving to this place on a hill of West Virgina I started to hear voices coming from my closet. I seen shadows of people but never heard them talk before that day. I tried everything to keep my mind off of them but it became unbearable. So, I went into Dale and Lucys room took some of the candy they took from me as a punishment for whatever I did that month that pissed off the queen and I left.

I didnt know where I was going I just walked. In a blink of an eye I ended up in a cemetary where I seen the name that was similar to my biologigal mothers and I sat there crying. Asking the head stone, who i believed was my real mom who I was told was dead, "Why did you leave me? Why didnt You want me?". After I uttered thos words a young man in a trench coat appeared and said "Don't cry you will see your mother soon". I was startled and I ran as fast as I could out of the cemetary. I looked back and the man was gone.

I ended up at a store where a couple seen me and called the police. Thats when they took me to the station to be picked up. After that day nothing was the same. I was shunned to my bedroom. I never was welcome in any part of the house unless it was time to eat. I no longer tried to be "daddys little girl". They thought medication could cure me of missing my "mom" and cure me of the heart break of knowing I wasn't Dales daughter.

Not long after that they began to expereince things that I had in the home and decided it was time to leave. They took photos of every room in the house and only the basement would come out pitch black. That is the same place the shadow people would come from. I wish they had believed me sooner but of course unless Lucy says it its not true.

Prior to the move Dale came clean and informed me my bio-father was alive. I spoke with him briefly on the phone. I thought it was just a strang man playing a cruel joke. come to find out it really was him. I never asked him why he abandoned. I wish I did. That was the only call I had until the move.

We moved to Tennesse where I turned twelve. I wasnt allowed in the school because I wasnt legally adopted by Dale. They gave him thirty days before I had to be with my real dad or they'd arrest Dale. Of course he couldve gotten paperwork from Will to keep me but Lucy wanted Dale to herself. She raised her kids she didnt want to be responsible for someone else's. 6:00am I was awoken by Dale telling me we had to pack up and go.

I didnt understand but I did what I was told. It felt like hours but finally we were outside this black house. Will was outside red faced and sweaty. He was pissed and couldnt compose himself and he went to attack Dale. I thought he wanted to fight Dale for keeping me away. I found out later it was because he didnt want me either. It's bad enough the man who raised me for twelve years doesnt want me now my own DNA father doesnt either.

Dale and Lucy came to me after things settled down and hugged me, for what I know now, for the last time. "It's never goodbye its see you later." They lied.

I never knew why they never tried to be a part of my life. It's sad that a man can raise a child all those years and wake up one day and say she means nothing. What was so wrong with me that two of my fathers were fighting on who didnt want to take me? Am I just that unlovable?