A drunken man walked unstable into the living room.
"Daddy, are you drinking again?" Angela asked, keeping her distance from her dad, didn't want to get her arm broken again.
"Mind your own business! You know
what? You're just like your mom, you'll do anything for my money!" He yelled back as he took another big gulp of his beer.
Angela sighed; walked back in her room. Closing the door behind her, but she couldn't lock it, her dad broke it the last time he was drunk.
She lied down on her bed; turned to lie on her left side, the family picture when she was five years old on her desk caught her eyes. Her mind flew back to the dark, rainy night that she lost her mom...forever
"I've had it! I try to keep this family together for all those years, and you still can't get over the thought that I'm married you for money!"
"Don't you get it? It was never about the money! You cheated on me with that client of yours!" Angela was standing by the door, watching they fight, didn't have the guts to stop them. She saw her dad walked towards the door; she ran and hid under the blanket.
"Angela Sun Dovane, who do you love more, me or your mom?" He asked in a voice that was colder than ice.
"I want daddy, and mommy." Angela loved them both and she didn't want to lose any of them. There was silence for a while, she moved the blanket from her face, before she could adjust her eyes to the light, her dad slapped Angela hard.
"I'm moving back to my parents' house, I'll take Angela, you can keep all of your stupid money, I only want Angela." Mom said, appeared at the door with a small suitcase next to her. She hugged her daughter tightly and told her that everything's gonna be all right.
"You can leave all you want, but Angela's mine, you ain't getting anything from me!" Angela's dad hissed.
"Mommy, stay, I'm scared!" The 5 year-old cried.
"It's gonna be okay, now get out bed." She pulled Angela's tiny arms off her and picked her up then left the room with Angela in her arms.
"Like I'm just gonna let you walk away?" Her dad yelled, following them to the front lawn. He took his daughter out of his wife's arms and shove her onto the street. Without a warning, a car ran her over.
"Mommy!" Angela screamed as she saw her mom exhaled and closed her eyes.
Time flew by. Angela was 17 now. After that night, her dad started drinking after that night, and he had became a compulsive gambler. He spent all the money he earned on alcohol and gambling instead on his family, she hid all the cash she could find in the house and then saved it in his bank account. It was worse when he's drunk, Angela shared a lot resemblance with her mother and he often mistaken the two of them. Angela dropped out high school when she was a junior. She had to work to pay the rent, food and also tried to pay back the doubts that her dad owed to the relatives. Letting out another sigh, Angela closed her eyes, hoping that this night would just pass quickly, but it wasn't going to be. Her dad kicked open her bedroom door...