16 | Different yet similar

Celeste's POV:

I never knew there are children without parents. I never knew the meaning of the word ‘alone’. I never knew the experience of emotion like sadness. I never knew what it meant to miss someone.

That was until my family was together and my daddy was alive.

I only cried when Mom wouldn’t listen to me and I would cry until daddy met my foolish demands. I was eight when Kathy was born. I remember seeing daddy smile through tears. I didn’t even know those two could coexist. I felt jealous of Kathy at first but gradually she found a spot in my heart and eventually became the heart itself.

One evening, at the age of thirteen, I was lying on my stomach on the rug in our living room, back in New Jers