She stood at the window and watched him leave for the last time. Her life suddenly felt empty as she stood there watching feeling helpless the tears falling down her cheeks. She doesn’t understand why this is happening, after all she’s only five years old watching her daddy walking out of her life. Will she ever get over this hurting? Only time will tell.
The little girl is eight now and her mommy’s engaged to be married. Spending time with her mommy’s fiancée and his family including the fiancée’s dad at his home, every one is having fun and playing games, the little girl’s brother and sisters are hanging out with the older kids. All the younger kids are all playing hide and go seek with the granddad to be. The granddad takes the little girl by her hand telling her “Come I know a good hiding place.” The innocent little girl so trusting follows him to the secret hiding place, under the house and there alone he touches her in places he shouldn’t. She’s afraid to say anything, afraid no one will believe her. Later that night the mom calls the little girl named Rebecca (Becky) in to take a bath. After getting the bath ready the mother knows something’s not right so after questioning Becky, Becky breaks down and confesses what had happened. The mother tells Becky to stay in the bath room and confides to her fiancée what had happened. The fiancée got angry at his dad and broke down and cried saying, “I never believed my ex when she told me about my dad touching my younger kids.” He couldn’t stop apologizing enough for what happened.
Two years later Becky’s mom moved the family to Oregon after the break up with her mom and her fiancée. The Mom still grieving over the divorce of the little girl’s daddy leaves to have fun with close friends, singing and dancing in bars. Becky’s oldest sister is now married with a baby and one on the way living in another state, Arizona. Becky’s brother and other sister are out all the time getting high and hanging with their friends leaving Becky alone to fend many times for her self. Becky would go to friend’s houses in hopes to get invited to eat just to have food. Christmas time and all Becky wanted was a pony a neighbor was selling for fifty dollars. Knowing every Christmas her dad would send twenty five dollars she begged her mom for the other twenty five and for Christmas got her dream, a pony, Becky was eleven then. Two months later Becky knows her mom is struggling to feed the pony yet the pony was losing weight. After all they were living on welfare. Saddened with a heavy heart Becky asks her mom if it was alright to give her pony to her friend. Her mom said it’s alright, so she gave her pony to her friend. One month later her friend’s dad then sold the pony to his friend for his grandchildren. The grandfatherly man who now has the pony told Becky and her friend, if ever they wanted to come and visit and ride the pony, they are welcomed to do so anytime. Becky took him up on it she still loved that pony. She was in the stable brushing him when the grandfather came in and started to talk to her about the pony. He walked around her and stood behind her and reached around her and touched her where he shouldn’t. Becky was afraid for he was bigger then she was, and she does love that pony so much, and wouldn’t want to hurt the chance of not seeing Peanut (the pony) again. She closed her eyes and trembled as he touched her. When he was done he handed her a five dollar bill she took the money and ran out and headed for home. At the age of eleven Becky had no idea what a prostitute was. This lasted about three months and it was getting worse when this man began to stalk her by driving past her apartment where she and her mother lived, everyday. It got so bad Becky would hide in the apartment shaking so bad with fright. She never told anyone she was too afraid of him to tell. Finally at age twelve her mother moved them to another town.
TO BE CONTINUED.....
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