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Then ed Daddy was always sad, always crying in his bed at night, which scaredsick I knehat sick was; I’ve been sick before, but it always got better, so I kneould be the sah I hated that she had an owie But I didn’t know that daddies cried

Mo ti too, and the house was full of people, and daddy sat ht I couldn’t breathe Moone to heaven

At first, I was so , that she’d found another daddy and little girl as better thanelse in the world, and it wasn’t her fault that she had to go away

At night I’d stay awake crying silently intoher back, but it never happened A lot of things were confusing after mommy went away First, daddy had asked Aunt Becky to take o to the office It was fun at first, though I missed mommy, and the car was not as nice asmy butt in the torn seat in the back

It wasn’t long before Aunt Becky told daddy about this, and he decided to let her drive mommy’s car I didn’t like that for so because I didn’t knohy I didn’t like it Then Aunt Becky and Victoria would stay over, sending the babysitter daddy had hired to watch ot hoain

One night, I don’t kno long after ht fro that I couldn’t hear

Mommy had looked scared in the dream, and the way herout of bed and running as fast as my little feet would carry me down the hall to daddy’s room

“What is it baby, you have a bad dreaht That’s the first time I saw that look on Aunt Becky’s face My tears dried up immediately, and otten by then Once daddy noticed that I’d seen her, he got up and ledon his robe

My young heart hurt as he held my hand in his, and when he tucked me back into bed, there was a look on his face that I’d never seen before It was as if my daddy didn’t want to look at h they were the same ones he always said when I had a bad dream

After that night, Aunt Becky was over more and ued with daddy, and there was a lot of yelling and screa he kneas best for me, so I was confused because Grandma Eloise didn’t think so, I think She was really mad

Then there was a wedding with not that many people Then Aunt Becky and Victoria moved in with us, and she was always in daddy’s roo s; it used to hurtnice to me, and that look was always there once daddy wasn’t around

Now she was standing there in the doorith that same look while Victoria’s eyes scanned around the room for the doll I’d hidden because, by the tins I knew that everything Grandiven to Victoria At first, daddy didn’t let it happen But then Aunt Becky had said that it wasn’t fair, that ere sisters and should share everything Only she didn’t make Victoria share with me

When I cried to daddy about it, Aunt Becky said that Victoria didn’t have a grandive her stuff, and thatwith her because she either never gives it back, or she breaks it It took me a while to not like Aunt Becky and Victoria It’s like afterbad happened to them too