Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

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I was done with life when I decided to jump off the roof with tears in my eyes.

And where was my family?

My parents were happy at their adoptive daughter’s first day of high school celebration.

My brother was there too, clicking away with the camera and welcoming his new sister to middle school.

As kids, they always had a soft spot for Ashley Schmitt. Being an orphan, she’d always get a bit more of their sympathy and support.

I was the one who got told to back off if I ever wanted to take back a toy of mine. Any fight was just me being a brat.

Ashley, with no parents of her own, was living up the life that should’ve been mine.

I had family, but they were always around Ashley.

When I finally wised up, I understood that what they called fairness was really just being partial.

Never in a million years did I think I’d get a second chance in life from the universe. So when I was reborn, I decided this time to just not give a damn about anything.

When I saw my folks holding Ashley’s hand, leading her up to

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me, it hit me. I was back in the past, a five–year- old again, but with the memories of the past. I was re–living the

a few days before she was brought. They were my mom’s best friends, so my mom decided to take Ashley under her

had said, smoothing Ashley’s hair. “You gotta

home. She looked pretty anxious to get her

little orphan card to snag whatever she fancied from me.

surprised; I did not expect her to be so young and so

and I’m into your family, too. I’ll grab whatever I like, and you’ll end up with nothing.” Ashley would say this to me

that, I understood she did not want me as a big sister; she wanted to take away everything from me.

and I’d just get into fights with her, but as soon as we fought, she’d play the victim, bawling her

she denied everything she’d said, accusing me

would make me apologize

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be the

would sometimes make me skip my meals, and other times, make

it. If she wanted something of mine, I should not be

clothes, my toys, and everything were handed over to Ashley. But that wasn’t enough for her. She also took my friends, my innocence, and

she’d take

an unfair past, why did the universe want me to relive it? I couldn’t help but

are fair, and we’ll love you both the same.” That was what mom used to say at the beginning.

a bigger, happy family now.” That