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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

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

a golden

wouldn’t miss me even if I wasn’t around.

that day, I became the invisible one at home, only existing to

the attention

with my favorite

new toys and

Ashley seemed like someone who was always willing to help, sweet and caring.

I asked for a doll, they’d tell me to take one that

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

always favored Ashley. If I didn’t treat Ashley

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life, it ruined my

anymore.

might pick their favorites, but the future I was

and Dad surprised

dresses.

downstairs, Ashley waved the dresses at me. “Grace, which one do you prefer?”

life and in this one, we never got

with the most used and worn down clothes, becoming a joke throughout the school year. But

“If you like

annoyance at her act.

had her eye on the dress. I’d

up to Ashley. “Grace, you’re the elder sister. You should let Ashley have it. Let’s see

happier she got. My dad and

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voice barely a whisper. “Mom, Grace isn’t too fond of me. Maybe I should return the dress

kicked in, questioning Ashley if I had bullied her.

head timidly, her eyes wide with fear, making me look bad.

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