Family. Your blood. Your clan. Your genre. Your household. Your kindred.People have many, many names for the word 'family' but yet, it felt like they hardly knew what it meant.People walk around daily using the word freely, calling people family only to still end up betraying them or hurting them. A family is supposed to be your home, your comfort zone. A place where you never have to re-earn your spot at the table, a place where once you've been accepted, you are supposed to be protected, to be kept safe, forever, no matter what.Doris wished her family was like that.Doris's family was the complete opposite of your typical family. Ever since Doris was younger, she never really experienced the joy of being in a family. All through her education, it was just her and Owen, they went to school together, they went back home together. They went to bed together, they woke up together. Even when she got her first period, their maid was the one who helped her through it.Now she was basi
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