Chapter 22
Chapter 2
My brother Shane’s hatred for me wasn’t without reason.
When I was young, I had a severe fever that left me with mental issues. My parents traveled across most of Bleford trying to find a cure for me. The only responses they received were sighs and head shakes from doctors. My mother developed a severe heart condition due to the stress of my illness. She believed it was her negligence that. caused me to have an incurable disease from a young age. Every time I had a mental
breakdown, she would lock herself in her room and cry for days.
As time went on, my mother’s condition worsened. When I was ten, she couldn’t hold on any longer and passed away. On the day she died, I had another episode. Because my father and brother were at home taking care of me, they couldn’t make it to the hospital to see her one last time. From that moment on, my brother hated me. But with our father at home, he only cursed me when our father wasn’t around, deliberately provoking my emotions, making me have breakdowns in front of the whole school.
The students at school gave me the nickname “crazy bitch” because my brain was damaged and I had mental issues. At home, my father seemed the same as before, but I could sense a change in his attitude. He was distant, rarely speaking to me unless necessary. I believed that if it weren’t for my mother’s dying wish for him to take care of me, he probably wouldn’t have bothered with me at all.
Later, my brother grew up and went to college, and my father left too. He took my mother’s ashes and went on a journey around the world. He didn’t even say goodbye to me before he left, only informing my brother. It was then that I realized my father might hate me just as much as my brother did. He didn’t even want to see me before he left. I haven’t seen my father in five years now.
I once pleaded with my brother to call our father so I could talk to him. My father never answered my calls. My brother shoved me away with contempt in his eyes. “Caitlin, do you think you deserve to talk to him? Let me tell you, we all wish you were never born!”
“If it weren’t for you, Mom wouldn’t have died!”
After that, I never asked my brother to call our father again.
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