There are only two things you need to know about my childhood. One: Manipulation and Two: Goals. I wanted power and by using other people I could get it. My brother Harry liked to cook, so I used that to my advantage; he would cook and I would sell, keeping the measly profit for myself of course. I had dreams, goals, plans. I needed them to go through and I needed to start saving now.
I was going to be a powerful man one day. And Childhood was just a stepping stone. Once I became a teenager, my real life began.
My older sister Bell told me something once, something that she heard from a man that she meet on the street, “Only you can make your dreams reality.”
And that’s just what I was going to do. Once, of course, I got out of this forsaken house.
My mother wouldn’t allow it though said I was too young to be on my own. I could handle myself. I can face the world, but she still refused.
So living on my own right now was a no. But perhaps once Tom moved out I could move out with him. That was a thought.
So I asked over our weekly chess match after school.
Tom had no problem with it. We would just need my mother’s and father’s permission…
So on Pepper’s birthday, I planned to ask my father first so he could ease up to my mother. It was a good plan.
I was excited for it. I had practiced talking to myself in the mirror before hand and I think I got my point across quite well.
So I gave it a go. I wanted to move out with Tom away from my mother. Something about her irked me and I didn’t like it and the fact that we didn’t have any type of technology in our house at all, no computers, no T.V. It not the Middle Ages!
Father wasn’t that keen on me moving out, but he still agreed to ask mother.
… It was another no. Lame.
I discussed my dilemma with my twin sister Carrot, who went by the name Carrie outside of the house. Carrie didn’t understand our mother’s refusal to let us go and neither did I… until…
The day came when none of us would see my older sister Bell… again.
A Root Legacy ~ A DITFT Legacy 