Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

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“I’m off to my room,” I said, and then I did, locking the door behind me for some peace.

My personality has changed, I wasn’t always this shy. I fought back once.

There was this one time when I pulled Ashley aside, and even though I barely tugged, she hit the desk and started crying.

Just for that, my mom slapped me and made me apologize. She didn’t even give me a chance to explain what happened.

That time, I tried to stand my ground with a hunger strike, and even left home, hoping they’d miss me.

I waited for them at our usual park all day, but they never came.

When I finally returned, hungry and shivering, they were all snug in the living room, chuckling at the TV. The coffee table was a feast of snacks.

It was enough to make anyone snap.

I lost it, crushed the snacks under my feet, and got a beating for my outburst. After that, they punished me by taking away my lunch money, and forbid me to go out and play with my friends.

Who got out to play with them? Ashley did, and they all loved her.

They said they weren’t playing favorites, but all they cared about

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was that Ashley lost her parents. Did they ever think about how her arrival affected me?

It was really sad. In my previous life, I tried to fight and please them, but even when I jumped off the rooftop, they didn’t care.

My folks had all their love reserved for their adopted girl, Ashley.

was a golden child.

even if I

starting that day, I became the invisible one at home, only existing to go to school and do my

attention was on Ashley.

once filled with my favorite dishes, now

the same old story. Ashley got all the new toys and the best snacks, and I was left with whatever she

eyes, Ashley seemed like someone who was always willing

notebook for Ashley, but when I asked for a doll, they’d tell me to take one that Ashley

a doll Ashley didn’t want, but my folks never batted an

be the black sheep. In my previous life, it ruined my childhood, but

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over, I would throw myself into studying, aiming for a top university. People might pick their favorites, but the future I was working hard for? That was all mine.

Eve, Mom and Dad

downstairs, Ashley waved the dresses at me. “Grace, which one do

and in this one, we never got along, so I just shrugged.

me, my parents only bought new clothes for Ashley, leaving me with the most used and worn down

you like it,

couldn’t stifle my annoyance at

had her eye

Ashley. “Grace, you’re the

it, the happier she got. My dad and

nestled against my mom, her voice barely a whisper. “Mom, Grace isn’t too fond of me.

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dress to her.”

instincts kicked in, questioning Ashley

shook her head timidly, her eyes wide with fear, making me