Chapter Ten: Gelato

Both women looked at me, expecting some kind of response. Who would have things to say after all of that information being thrown at you like a hot potato?

‘Why now? You could have left me there to keep being human. To carry on as a normal person. I have a future planned out for me. I was unhappy for seventeen years, and after almost finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel you show up? You tell me all of those things as if I was supposed to throw my arms around you and all would be forgiven? What is wrong with you people? Why did you give birth to me if I was to be a burden on your lives? You left me to get punched, kicked, slapped, cut, verbally abused. You left me in hell. WHY DID YOU GIVE ME LIFE IF I WASN’T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE?’ There went all the rage at once. The feelings I never allowed to have come to surface as a tsunami. I shook, my face was red out of hatred but I couldn’t cry. I was mad at all of this. Elsbeth reached out for a string of my hair th