With the extra money we had received, we decided to invest it and buy our own resort. It was already partly built, but it was run down, not cared for and just plain shabby. We did get it for a decent price, but we would have to put a lot of work into it to […]

  “You grimy piece of scum, you disgusting pervert!” I yelled at Gru, it felt so good to finally tell him how I really felt. “Ariel, don’t you dare!” Mom yelled at me, moving from her post to get closer to me. Before mom could get to me, I bolted. I just ran and ran […]

“Oh, there you are, Ariel. I need you to come inside please.” Mom said, holding the door open as she waited for me to get out of the pool. I wondered what she could want, since she was getting me out of the pool it must be something important. I swam over to the ladder […]

“Play for me, I want to hear the beautiful music you can make me.” Gru said to me. Mom hadn’t really cared where I had been she just wanted to introduce me to this man, Gru. He was fifty-seven years old and mom had arranged our marriage. I, of course told her no way but […]

Mom told me I could stay here for as long as I wished and that this was now my new home. She told me to go upstairs and pick out one of the guest rooms to become my new room. She warned me though, that one of them was not quite finished yet. Mom seemed […]

How wrong my father had been, the people that were coming to find him and kill him finally had. It wasn’t just some random event that someone had sold my dad that house so quickly. They had sold him that house, the awful people that wanted our whole family dead. I would have been dead […]