The best thing about being young
Is seeing the world- as messed up as it is
But being too innocent to know better.
That's not my story.
My story is wrapping Christmas gifts with my mum on Christmas Eve and writing back on my sisters Santa letters.
For this to become a tradition between me and her,
For every single year.
It was staying up late in the night while the others were asleep playing Mario Kart with her.
It was knowing her in a way the others never would.
The rest that came with it was bearable, because for a few seconds in the night or a few times in the year, I was my mothers best friend. And those are the good things.
Cups of tea with two tea bags.
Out of key singing til our ears were ringing.
Her locking the doors so that when the demons came in my nightmares I wouldn't run away.
Watching her grow while we grew.
The seven of us together against the world.
The memories and the trauma that makes every one of these girls,
My soul mates.
If you don't look for the good waves before the tide,
You will never survive.
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