Lydia POVWhat had happened between him and I, almost complete strangers, was abnormal. Wasn’t it?I remembered being an ordinary girl. Of course, that was a few years ago. My last memory of normality was my 15th birthday. Being an only child I was spoiled and my party included everything a girl my age could want: cotton candy machines, popcorn machines, bounce-A-bouts, water slides, you name it, it was all there. My mom made up for her lack of time with material things and, approaching teen-hood, that was fine with me. My dad was never the emotional type. If he hugged me. it would feel like hugging a cactus; that is how awkward and ridiculous it would be. But hey, what family didn’t have its issues? I knew my parents loved me, they just had a hard time showing it, emotionally.It used to confuse me what love was. I grew up thinking love meant fear, restraint, and restriction. That’s how I saw it. I was raised to believe it was because of love that my father had been nothing but the w
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