Part 5:

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

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 my brother and me, it hit me. I was back in the past, a five-

memories

living the same nightmare.

a few days before she was brought.

had said, smoothing Ashley's hair. "You gotta look out

our home. She looked pretty anxious to

play the poor little orphan card to snag whatever

surprised; I did not expect her to be so

and I'm

Ashley would say this to me when it was just the

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

me furious, and I'd just get into fights with her, but as soon as we fought, she'd play the victim, bawling her eyes out to get my parents' attention. Then she denied everything she'd said, accusing me of framing

Every

time, my parents would make me apologize to her and

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

If she wanted something of mine.

my new clothes, my

everything were handed overto Ashley But that wasn't enough for her. She also took my friends,

said, she'd take it all

an unfair past, why did

me to relive it? I couldn't help but

we'll love you both the

happy family now." That was what

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