All Chapters of BY TWIST OF FATE: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

It’s soothing quiet and warm. Very warm. A sigh of tranquility escapes my just parted lips which later wide in a yawn. I shift my head against the fluffy, lemon and honey scented pillows. The fragrance cause me to smile a little.A flap of the curtain due to the chill breeze coming from the sea grabs my attention. I groaned not really wanting to wake up from my serene slumber as the blazing sun rays shit into the room and fell on my face. Not for long my eyes blink five times before flapping open. I yawn again, slowly raising up from the bed my eyes fixed on the beautiful hanging chandelier above my head.Maybe I should have been a chandelier…hanging up there looking beautiful and bright…sure that would make anyone happyMy subconscious whimper in sadness as reality dawn upon the both of us. It’s another day. It’s suppose to be a grant new day like everyone else but not for me…it has never been and will never be.I g

I walked into the posh white caramel kitchen and Nana engulfed me into a warm hug before taking my face into her old hands inspecting it. When she saw the crimson mark on my swollen cheek, she broke into tears and all I could do was swallow mine and repeat to myself to be strong.“Why? Tell me why Maia? Why are you still here? When it is evident that the love is gone why are you still living here?” she choked out.Nana! She is the closest person I call family. She basically raised me up. She was a mother to me when my own mother left me in the cold in front of the orphanage Nana was the caregiver at. She was coming from a evening walk when she found me crying in my baby carriage and she fell in love with my big doe eyes and took me in. Growing up many wanted to adopt me but I used to refused and behaved naughty just so I get rejected. It was all for one reason; Nana. I wanted to be with her and at the end she gave into my tenacity. She gave me her name and