008– Bitter Reality

[~♠CORAL♠~]

I wail against mother’s body as she sits with me, holding me down as I poured out the suffocating emotions that threatens my sanity. She just let me pour it all out, not saying a word to me and simply combing her soft fingers through my hair as she plants soft kisses.

“It— it’s not true, right?” I sniffle, my voice croaky and low. I pull out of my mother’s embrace. “Raegan’s isn’t telling the truth, right? He’s just trying to be selfish, right?” I question with a bitter laugh. “I’m your daughter, aren’t I?”

“Coral… Honey, I—” Mother's words clips off and she turns her face away and the possible truth sticks in.

I turn to my father, looking up at him for a hopeful answer. But there’s a look on his face that I can’t properly decipher and he doesn’t meet my eyes either. And I feel my world being blown away like a hurricane.

“This... can’t be happening… how is this even possible?” I mutter. Questioning no one in particular.

“You were found on our land’s boarder,” Father’s deep