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“And you must never let anyone make you feel like there is something wrong with you.”
Its harder when you know how people treats Liz now
I knew they were cross with me. I just didn’t know why. “Don’t worry,” she whispered, tightening her arm around me. “They love you, too, sweetheart. Just like Mammy loves you.”
“You’re always in the fucking way, Lizzie!”
“She’s disturbed, Catherine. A blind man can see that.”
“I’m not leaving her, but I have to get out of this house or I’m going to lose my mind right along with her.”
Ofc
“Does she even know it’s her birthday?” Caoimhe asked then, and it made me cross. Of course I did. I had a birthday cake, didn’t I? She laughed before adding, “She probably doesn’t even know what age she’s turning.” Planting my hands on my hips, I turned to my sister and glared. “Four.” Caoimhe’s eyes widened in surprise. “What did you just say?” “Four,” I repeated, still cross with her. “I’m not silly.” I pointed to the candles on my cake. “One, two, three, four.”
IKTR
“She shouldn’t even be at my school because there’s something fucked-up wrong with her!” Throwing her schoolbag on the floor, she turned to glare at me. “Why did you have to come to my school?” Releasing a furious scream, she looked at our parents. “Why couldn’t you have sent her somewhere else?”
Jesus i have murderous thoughts abt this one
“Why not? It’s the truth. Half the time she’s a mute, and the other half, she’s screaming her head off and attacking anyone who gets near her.” My sister threw her hands up and screamed. “She attacked another child in her classroom, for fuck’s sake. My friend’s baby brother! She drew blood. You can’t honestly think that’s normal behavior.”
“Yeah, from another plague she brought into our lives,” Caoimhe spat. “First Lizzie and now cancer!”
Bitch
Breaking down in front of him, my sister covered her face with her hands and screamed, “I wish I was dead!”
Well thats coming soon
“Because I’m bad.”
:(((
“She’s an extremely bright girl, and you’d know that if you paid her a minute of your time. Do you remember even one of the many positive things our daughter’s teacher had to say about her? No, of course you don’t, because you only hear the negative when it comes to Lizzie.”
Sounds like the fandom
He was always sad when he looked at me, and that didn’t feel good. Not good at all.
“That’s because his sister is a rip-roaring lunatic,” Caoimhe explained, braiding my hair. “Just like her dad was before he died.” “Her dad?” “Grandad Young.” “What’s a lunatic?” “Someone who’s crazy and hears voices.”
Oh no...
“You are fine. There is nothing wrong with you. You don’t hear voices. You aren’t sick. It skipped over you, just like it skipped over me and Dad. You’re just a regular kid, and all these weird, little quirks will fade away.”
love my sister, I do,” Caoimhe argued. “And I understand why we’ve had to do what we’ve done, but you guys need to put me first this time. I don’t have a chance of fitting in if you send her to Sacred Heart with me.”
So you dont love hed
“You better hope the cancer doesn’t kill Mam, because if it does, you’ll be out of this house before she’s cold in the ground, and good fucking riddance.”
Omg can this bitch die yet
“Anyone who thinks you’re bad is a stupid fucker.”
“But at the rate she’s going, she’ll be thirty before she graduates.”
Every sentence that comes out of her mouth makes me want to strangle her
“She can keep her mouth shut?”
I have a bad feeling abt this...
“A tasty, little munchkin just for me.”
I feel sick
“You can’t climb onto my lap without any clothes on.”
Sick i tell you
was late on Christmas night when my bedroom door opened inward, and Mark slipped into my room. I smiled when he locked the door behind him because that meant he was going to fix me again.
Oh god
“I’m going to take some pictures of you, munchkin. Special pictures just for me, okay?”
Im abt to throw up
know a secret tickle,” he whispered, moving his hand up higher. “Do you want me to show you?”
Im sick
It always happened when I sat next to Shannon Lynch. It made me want to sit with her forever.
“Hey, do you ever wee red stuff?” “Ew, no!” Her brown eyes widened to saucers. “Do you?” “Sometimes.” I focused on washing the suds off my hands. “When it’s stingy.” “You get stingy wees?”
Oh no
Instead, they stayed right on mine, warm and kind and chasing away the scary feeling in my head.
“It’s because I give you the hots.” “Uh.” He looked surprised and his face turned even redder. “I, uh…” “It’s okay.” Grinning, I grabbed his hand and pressed it to my cheek. “See? You give me the hots, too.” “Uh…yeah, maybe,” he mumbled, pulling his hand away. “Here,”
LMFAOOOO
“Yeah, well, if you don’t want to answer them, just lie.”
Oh my god shut up
I didn’t bother investigating those because whatever piqued Mark’s interest would be of zero interest to me.
You shouldve
