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Love and Hate

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ROSALINA'S POV(Five years old)

"I want to tell you somethin'" Papa stood at the kitchen doorway, hiding his hands in his pant pockets. Mama paid no attention to him, she kept scrubbing the dishes from the sink.

Papa almost begged, "Alina, are you even listening to me?'"

"I'm listening," Her voice was uncaring. As if she already knew what he was about to say wouldn't have any effect on her.

Papa swallowed a lump trapped in his throat. "I hooked up with a girl once. It was a one-time thing. I just needed to feel something because you were always shutting me out and I..."

THUD!

The porcelain coffee mug crashed into the plates after Mamma dropped it so abruptly that even I shrieked from the dinner table. I was playing with one of the Barbie dolls after my evening dance practice, still in my pink tutu. Mamma shot me a look that made me shrink in my chair.

"Go to your room," She ordered with a face stripped of any emotion.

I grabbed my doll and ran outside the kitchen, but I was s
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