Step(Kayleigh Richardson) They say they love me but I know they don’t. I can tell by the way they look at me. By the way they treat me. By the way they throw me around consistently like a ball on a ping-pong table. He has green eyes, but I imagine them red. When they stand above you glaring down upon your forehead. Eye contact is bad with this man. Something I regret.

I miss my dad, I wish he would come back, for me. Now he’s gone, so is my life. I feel invisible, no one cares about me. Not even my own mum cares anymore. I feel as if I’m a unwanted gift that’s been thrown under a bed and forgotten. My step-dad knows I’m here. He’s knows how to hurt me, he knows how to make me cry on the inside and out. He would shout my name for fun, “LILY!”. It would tremble the house as his voice boomed and his feet clambered up the stairs. It’s his game, not mum’s, not mine, his. Jackson, my step-dad - my mum calls him jack. I just call him an idiot. and my mum’s not my mother anymore, she’s known as idiot number 2.

I would prepare, waiting at my door for the devil to come through. To put me through my daily pain and misery. I can’t escape out my window as Jackson sealed it up and blacked it out. ‘I’m a good person’ I would tell myself over and over ‘It’s not me, it’s him, please come back dad, please come home’. But my father would never come home, however many times I cried and wept, he was gone, gone forever. He was dead.

Dad died in a car accident three months after him and my mum got a divorce. My dad was my best friend and to see him move to Connecticut in America after the divorce, destroyed me, to see him die - killed me. Inside me everything just shattered into a million pieces, one by one they would transfer themselves into tears. I didn't stop crying for over a week and everyday since I pray to him to help me. He is my God, he is my helper and I wish he had powers to take me away from hell and follow him into heaven.

After Dad had gone, mum found a new man - Jackson. Tall with short brown hair, an average man I thought at first, but my first impressions were as far as earth to the sun back and forth over a million times. My mum didn't care about me after Jack came. If dad wasn't there apparently I wasn't either. Jack and mum had a baby, my little step sister Emily. She feels like a only child, I feel sorry for her as I sit on the stairs and watch Jack hold her in his arms. The same arms he uses to beat me down to the ground. This man was not fit to be a father, that baby should not be anywhere near the sick man. Mum likes him because he has money and dad didn't, that’s the reason my mum and dad split up. My dad was a hardworking man but didn't get enough money to please my mother. My mother has high expectations for everyone. she thinks she’s the only one that matters. I loved my mum until she turned around to my dad and told him to leave. “Bye Bye daddy” I said not knowing that would be one of my last ever goodbyes. He was a good man unlike Jack, Jack’s soul is black, just like my mum’s. Maybe they were meant to be.
Maybe that’s why they're getting married.

It’s gone now though, I ran away. Alone just me and dad, his spirit beside me all the way. He loves me and doesn't want to leave me. Mum has Jackson and Emily. I’m to her but a shadow in the past. I ran away and the deed was done, I was gone.

At least he finally answered my prayers. Now I’m in the heaven’s with him. He does have the magical powers I wished for.

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