She was breathing hard, like she’d been wronged in sor
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She paused for a moment to get her crying under cont and then continued.
“But there’s a limit, we can put up with the little things when it comes to something this big, something like b marrow, you come here and ask as if it’s nothing, like y don’t want to put our parents in an impossible situation
“If they don’t agree, you’ll say they’re heartless. If they they’re risking losing both of their daughters.”
“How can you be so evil, why can’t you just let us be happy?”
As she spoke, she hugged my mom tightly.
After hearing what she said, my mom finally broke into tears of hurt.
‘Sarah, don’t… it’s all your father’s fault, the fault of wanting to have both a son and a daughter, if it wasn’t hat…”
She didn’t finish what she was saying, but we all knew ;he meant.
She was saying, if she hadn’t had me, then none of this would be happening.
Matt stood up too, they stood on either side of my mor heir eyes full of resentment.
arah tilted her head back, looking determined.
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“Ava, I won’t give you a chance to hurt our parents. I a telling you now, I will not donate any bone marrow to y
She looked like she was ready to go to battle for them.
“This has nothing to do with mom and dad, if people ta about them being heartless, tell them it’s all me. I am t selfish, because I can’t bare to see my mother lose her daughters.”
“I will take the blame, I will not donate anything to her!
She looked so serious that it seemed as if she was rea give her life to save us.
I was fumbling with the test results in my pocket and I laughed.
After a while, I said, staring straight at Sarah, “Are you sure? You’re not donating, under any circumstance?”
Sarah gently wiped away her mother’s tears and looked she was ready to face the gallows.
“Absolutely not!” She said.
“If you need to be mad, then be mad at me. Don’t take out on mom and dad, I am trying to get pregnant, and not giving up my baby for your sake.”
I laughed again, this time with tears in my eyes, and fel twinge of pity for her.
I then said in a soft voice, “That’s a good point, you ca
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kill your baby in order to save another person’s life.”
Sarah, confused by my words, turned to comfort my m
On the other side of the room, my mother had begun tc gasp, as if she was the one who had leukemia and no c was helping her.
She then started to massage her chest.
“It’s your fault, Robert, you idiot! You were so desperat both a son and a daughter!”
My dad, annoyed by the tirade, slammed his hand onto
table.
He went over to where I was sitting and pulled a huge envelope out of his pocket.
He then tossed it onto the table as if he were trying to off a beggar.
“Whether you’re actually sick or not, take this money a get the hell out of here.”
“If you give your mother a heart attack, don’t say I didi warn you.”
The envelope was beautifully wrapped and it was clear a lot of effort had gone into getting it ready.
When I looked at it more closely I saw the words “Congratulations on the show and have fun” written by hand on the front.
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I looked at it mockingly, and asked, “If I use this mone help save my life, it wouldn’t stop your daughter from ! overseas, right?”
My dad looked at me with disgust and his voice was c than ever.
He said, “Don’t try and get a reaction out of me, it was choice to try and be treated like you’re equal. Now, I ha to be as blunt with you as possible.
“We didn’t want you, but after you were born we did w we could to make sure you had food and clothes. You shouldn’t have been greedy, you shouldn’t have tried to pick a fight.”
He then looked away.
“I have always taken your mother’s advice and I have b patient with you. However, today you were completely of line, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
He had finally cast me out.
The room fell silent again.
They all gave me space to leave, waiting for me to leav their presence.
At that moment, I finally understood.
No matter how much I wanted it, I could never be a par this family.
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And honestly, I didn’t care anymore.
So, the next time I looked at them, I was no longer try tread lightly.
I weighed the envelope in my hand and slowly got to feet.
In my heels, I was as tall as my father.
I was no longer the young girl who used to look forwa seeing him every month.
I looked him straight in the eye and calmly asked him,
“If you say you didn’t want me, then why was I born?
“…Did you lose control of your lower half or was I the of a drunken one night stand?”
My father’s eyes went wide and his mouth dropped op
shock.
He stuttered a bit, before raising his hand to hit me.
I moved to the side, causing him to lose his balance.
I then turned to my mother.
“And you,” I said.
“Stop crying! You could have put your foot down a lon time ago, but why didn’t you?
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“Did my father force you to sleep with him? Was your 1. pound body unable to fight him off?”
My mother stopped crying and her look of guilt had disappeared.
She pointed at me, trembling.
“… You’re horrible, we have the same blood, why are yc
so different?
Sarah held my mom and started to cry as if her mother been hurt.
Matt tried to grab my arm.
Their partners also joined in, trying to break up the figh
The room was in chaos.
I was thrown around, before finally getting hit in the fac my dad.
My face snapped to the side and I felt warm blood run down my nose.
“Get out!” My dad screamed.
“From now on, we are no longer family, the Johnsons h no connection to you!”
I put my hand on my stomach.
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At that moment I realized that there was already a connection between me and that small life inside of me
And because I wanted the baby, I couldn’t give up on it
So I raised my face and stared at him, dead in the eye.
“Okay, that’s what you said, I’m not a Johnson anymore
My father stared at me with disgust,
“Exactly! That’s what I said! And I never take back wha Say!”
I wiped the blood from my face.
“Good! From now on, we each have our own fate. The f one to ask for help is a loser.”
