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She laughed and laughed on the outside, but inside my head, she taunted me hispers and lies until the statements all overlapped

“You’re a fool”

“Disgrace”

“A princess who lies with dogs”

“Such a disappointment”

“No wonder he doesn’t want you”

“Your father would turn in his grave over what you have become”

I held et, and her final statement hit its mark

“You are hter”

With that parting shot, the need to hurt her took over

My body trembled with raw fury, and when I lifted the vase, turned, and bellowed, “I said that’s enough,” my arm extended, my hand released, and I watched in slow h the air, toward the woman who birthed me

Mother smirked as the vase hurtled toward her, and just when it should have connected with her face, she disappeared, and the vase dashed toward an unintended target The molass shattering echoed in the small space

The shock of it all hadblast My shoulders lifted as I clenched my eyes shut, and I twisted ed and tinkled around me

And then silence

My trehtened asaround at the shattered glass and broken tiles

Sorrow filledfaucet Every drop that fell filled rief, and the drops continued to fall

My face cru and hard, because ht Maybe I was like her

She could have been right about it all Except one thing

She rong about him

Viktor Nikulin lit up the world with a smile, and he orth every heartbreak and more