She skipped at least seven pages of her notebook before each writing in hopes no one would ever read her thoughts. The average person wouldn’t thumb through a journal titled Algebra II should it become lost.
She sat in the center of her Holly Hobbie covered twin bed, crossed her legs, unzipped her backpack, and pulled from it the spiral pad she secretly recorded nearly everything in. She placed the tip of her number two pencil against the paper.
Today she chose make-believe because some things were never okay to write about.
Seven beautiful butterflies. “No!” She ripped the paper in half, balled it up and tossed it to the floor.
Four neon pink mushrooms stood silent and alone, one taller than the rest tried her best to protect the others. For she knew if they were to be removed from their habitat they would surely whither and die, no matter how harsh the elements in their current place. Aware of the seven who came in uniform, disguised as beautiful butterfly angels, she knew their intentions were to separate them from their own.
She erased the first line three times, wiping rubbery shavings from her work. She sighed and stared at what she had written.
Her bedroom door creaked open.
“Please knock before entering my room!” She snipped.
“I put a roof over your head, food on the table, clothes on your back, I deal with your nagging mother, and those three little whiny sisters of yours. Do you think I do all of this because I want to be here? No! I do it for you.”
The springs on the mattress squealed when he sat down beside her and began to run his fingers through her hair.
She sometimes wished for the butterflies.
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