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Mei grudgingly gathered her stuff as she exited the school bus. Sometimes she wished she lived somewhere else, not that her house didn’t look inviting. What went on behind close doors no white picket fence could hide forever. “If people only knew what hell I was living in…well it makes no sense dreaming this world is cold.” Mei thought, as she entered into her home, or as her stepfather so proudly put it his home. She was just an unwelcome guest. Mei opened the front door and placed her purse on the hallway table by the door. She slowly pulled her backpack off her shoulder and dropped it down in the corner next to the front door.

“Honeybee, I have lunch waiting for you on the kitchen table.” Her mom Song Li Paulard exclaimed, as she walked into the kitchen.

Mei’s Father Jacob Gordon nicknamed her honeybee when she was born due to her Chinese and African American heritage. Her mom loved it and hasn’t stopped calling her honeybee since. Jacob was murdered ten years ago in Atlanta, Georgia where they once lived. After he died Mei was never the same, she had constant visions and dreams of her father visiting her and warning her of people who came into her life. Some times late at night she could feel someone gently pulling back her hair. A warm gentle hand gliding over her face, Mei secretly told her mother trusting that she would not think she is going crazy, but it backfired on her, causing Mei years of feeling like she was a freak.

 Mei’s mother Song li Paulard remarried two years after Jacob’s death to his long time friend Thomas Paulard. Mei couldn’t get along very well with her stepfather. Thomas may have been able to get things past her mother, but not her. Thomas had also touched her in places no man should touch her, no matter how many times she told her mother, it would always came back on Mei. Making her look like a liar. The school counselors accused her of just wanting attention.