Danica suffered worse

Danica

I sat with Valeria, more like stared at her.

We looked so alike yet different. Was I inhuman to not feel anything but jealousy towards her?

She had the perfect life, she grew up with a father to call her own, she grew up not being scared of anything, she grew up feeling safe.

"Look, I know you weren't expecting to suddenly have the root of your life thrown at you, but believe me you're not the only one going through it, can we just try to be friends even if you don't see me as your twin sister." She sighed. "I'm not asking you to do it for me, do it for the man who thought two of his daughters were dead, then they suddenly appeared, you gotta imagine how it's going to feel. He thinks he failed you all as a father, he thinks he abandoned you."

I stared down at her manicured fingers twitching, her short gown resting in her body and showing of her curves, her bright coloured sneakers shining. She looked rich.

"—I guess what I'm saying is, can we please try to get along? I know I'm different from you guys, you all have some sort of crazy gifts while mine is dormant like father's...just please, okay, give the family a chance."

"Why don't you call Koala and Tara here, maybe we should all discuss this, since our so called father went back." I sneered.

"Oh no," she corrected me. "He didn't go back because he wanted to go back, he went because he needed to "

"Sure," I agreed. "I've never had a family so I don't exactly know what I'm supposed to be doing, that's why I said we should all be having this conversation."

She smiled, I caught my breath when I noticed how her smile looked just like mine. "If you're interested then it means we're making progress." She tipped her head, considering something before she spoke again. "But I'm scared of talking to Tara though."

I snorted, "why?"

"She looks so intense, it's like scowling is her hobby, I haven't even seen her smirk, and she's a bitch."

I gasped.

"What? It's the truth, she called our father the sperm donor."

And I couldn't hold in my laugh again.

Koala came up to us, smiling crookedly when he saw me laughing. I sighed, wondering just how hurt he must have been when he thought mother left him for me.

"I guess you guys are having a reunion, care if I join."

"Of course not, as a matter of fact I think we should have a talk, if it wouldn't be a burden can you please call Tara? From what I've noticed she listens to you."

Koala nodded, before motioning for Tara to come, Tara rolled her eyes and huffed before walking towards us. "Ignore her rudeness," Koala started. "She's not always so insensitive, she's just going through a lot lately.

"I guess we were rough on the old man." He said to Valeria. "We all thought about ourselves not caring about what he might be going through, I guess we were a little insensitive towards him, but that's not an excuse on how Tara behaved."

"Don't blame me," Tara huffed. "He just comes buzzing into my life and then he tries to play the role of a caring father."

"Again," said Koala, completely ignoring Tara. "It's not an excuse for how Tara behaved, but you have to understand, we just lost someone we all thought of as a father, Tara was closer to him than any of us, because he raised her as a daughter and she saw him as her father."

"Stop talking about me like I'm not here."

"Tara." He scolded.

"What? He can't just waltz into my life and expect me to call him father, I lived as an orphan, I believed myself to be an orphan and then suddenly a man comes and calls himself my father and you expect me to just agree?"

I was enjoying this, way more than I expected.

"At least you had people to call your own, what about me, Knox raised me as his champion and nothing else, at least he showed you love."

"No, no, no, don't speak like that, we were all placed in the same category, he has a daughter already why does he need more?"

"I know you're hurting, but what about Danica?" Koala asked and I stiffened, I didn't like when people talked about me.

"She had no one growing up, she was alone for almost all her life, you had someone in yours, you knew someone cared for you, but Danica didn't, she lived alone for crissakes, she had no one, she was just a little kid, and yet she survived, you had people Tara, I had people caring for me, Danica didn't, and she's not as insufferable as you, she's the one that's supposed to be annoyed. There was someone out there who could have taken care of her, who could have made sure she was taken care of, but she got none, no one knew were she was."

"But—"

"And your father had no idea you were alive, he thought you dead because that was what they told him, that was what they showed him, how could he have known it was all a lie."

"But—"

"So don't blame him for it." He caught her off. "Instead blame the one who separated us."

"But I just can't, I just can't look past the fact that.."

"It's all fate, Tara, you're a dreamer, surely you'd have to believe in fate, think about what you have now instead of what you could have had."

Tara kept quiet after that, resigned to her fate.

Wow, Koala really took charge, and I felt bad for Tara with his red she looked.

I was close to sobbing, I was the one with the most loss, I was the one who suffered the most, I was the one who has to cry and wail in misery everytime I had the dream, I was the one who had to live faraway from the world so I'd be safe, but I am now also the one with a mate who wanteqd me, who cared for me, who wanted to protect me and keep me from harm, who wanted my trust and love, who craved me. What more could I want?

Valeria didn't utter a word, content it seemed, to let Koala do the talking.