I was an accident. My mother kept telling my dad she was on birth control, but she has a lying streak. When my dad found out, he wanted an abortion. He hated the idea of fathering an infant girl. And most of all, he hated my mother.

Not because she was pregnant. No, he hated her for a different reason. They would fight a lot and only stayed together so they could parent me easily. But my father warned up to the idea and was overjoyed when I was born. But my mother didn't hold me. About a year after, they had my baby brother. It turns out they had only wanted him so I wouldn't be lonely, but I was always treated as the second priority. I was only a year...