Once upon a time, not to long ago and in a land not at all far away, there lived a little girl named Marie. She lived with her mother, her brother, and her father. Marie also lived with three dogs, a bird and a cat. The bird would wake the family up every morning, and the dogs would welcome the family home every night. As a little girl Marie was just like her hair; bright as the sun. Her life like her hair was bathed in sunshine. But something happened to the sun when Marie started to grow up, the sun started to go dark. It was flickering out. The sun left Marie’s life, just as the gold of her hair abandoned her as well.
What made the sun leave was her father. His heart, once loving and playful, became self-centered stone. He became so unpredictable mean at times that everyone, even the dogs, would hide when he came home from work. He would yell or swear when things didn’t go his way. Though he acted like a child, he was a man strong enough to enforce what he wanted. Marie’s mother was made to do all the work, to take care of the kids. To Marie, her brother lost his own will; he would do what ever his father wanted even if he had objections.
In these dark times, Marie lost her golden white hair. It became as dark as her life. But Marie still stood strong, even though she was dying in side. Whenever Marie became too forlorn to keep the tears back, her cat would comfort her. She would listen to Marie’s complaints without comment other then her purrs. The cat would cuddle with Marie when she didn’t want to be alone in the darkness of her room and despair. If the cat didn’t the dogs did. They all understood that a storm cloud had hidden the sun from sight.
This dark time when on for years.
Marie became used to the sorrow. She would go to school, come home, do homework, and then go to sleep. Her life was empty. Though Marie had become numb to her life, she still dreaded going home to her father. He had only gotten worse over the years. His heart was now not only stone, but it was also frozen. Marie hated the long drive from school to home; it was an hour long drive. Every minute her qualms got worse. Like I said, she hated it.
Then Marie did something that set a chain of events into action.
She told her mom that she hated going home and didn’t want to do it anymore.
By that time Marie’s mother was sleeping in her room to evade her husband. She was scared of him, and she was angry at him for too many things to count. Marie’s mother was ready to leave as well. The only thing that delayed them was Marie’s birthday. Marie and her mother decided to wait until Marie was twelve.
A few days after her birthday, Marie and her mother took off. They left with everybody watching. The dogs, the cat, the brother, and the father. The father tried to stop them from going, but gave up when he saw that it was no use; they were gone already. One dog accompanied Marie and her mother, so that they wouldn’t get lonely. The next time they came back to get more of their stuff, the first thing Marie took was her cat. The cat was scared senseless, she had thought that Marie had abandoned her, but here she was taking her to a new home that was an intimidating mystery. But the cat soon came to love her new home.
So, after this groundbreaking turn of events for the family, Marie’s life started looking bright again. Though she had lost her child hood home and her brightly shining hair, she was elated to be away from the source of her fear for so many years. But what she didn’t know was that the father’s game had hardly begun.
For the next three years, the courts would decide the family’s future.
The End
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