Chapter One
The clouds cover the skies leading up to heaven, smoke seems to blind as the ashes of the wind blow mercilessly on her golden streaks of sunshine hair.
Her walk is anything, but filled with majestic vigour, she curls herself in the chill of the world and in the chill of what the life she longs to live for offers her.
A drunkard of a mother, she never really knew her father and has no relation to her aunts or uncles, with no siblings either.
How on earth would her mother birth another child in her addiction? She loved no one else other than her wine bottles.
Cecilia Burbern, was always looking for a life outside the one she lived, a life that offered comfort and a life away from her washed out mother. Katherine Burbern, was once a woman people envied, men wished their wives and girlfriends were her and women wanted to be her. Her life was a fairytale dream, all of which came crashing down on her and all that was left were crumbs of a woman she once was and had no idea of becoming again.
Cecilia was just like her mother, but didn't realise it yet, Katherine was reminded of a younger version of herself through her daughter. She remembered every moment of what it felt like being that young and reckless.
Seventeen and about to turn eighteen in a couple of months to come. Cecilia has always braced herself to get out and forge a new life for herself. She hates her mother and even the thought of being birthed by Katherine nauseated her, she wishes nothing but to walk away from a life with her mother in it.
It's not like she was sexually, emotionally or even physically abused, but there was just this wanton hatred and anger she carried towards her mother.
Sometimes Katherine could feel it, it wasn't her fault how she coped with the tragedy that fell on her, it wasn't her fault how everything got pulled from under her in an instant and it wasn't her fault people were uncouth and carried no morals.
It was times like this she wished she had terminated when she found out about her pregnancy, but then again under all the pain she's gone through, her heart wasn't as stone as she wished of it to be...
