Ocean's Storm

Prologue

        Villain: a subjective term used to define someone or something that defies societal expectations.

       From a young age, we are taught to root for the good guys and to be just like them. Villains are frowned upon and disliked for the nature of who they are. No one cares to ask why or what made villains turn into a villain. They are just bad people.

       I never liked Disney movies growing up, but my stepsister, Bria, always got to choose what movie we watched for Friday family movie nights. I lost count of how many times we watched Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin;
Cinderella was off limits to watch for obvious reasons. Kaylee was under the impression that watching Cinderella would further drive home my dislike for her and Bria. Little did she know that watching Cinderella would have been furthest from her worries.

     Kaylee and Bria had made their way into my and my dad's life when I was six going on seven. My dad and Kaylee's relationship is the poster of a whirlwind romance. At least, that is how I felt at the time.

One night my dad brings home a woman, whom I thought to be nanny forty-eight, and introduces her as his girlfriend; the next afternoon she becomes his fiancée; and two months later I am living in a mansion with a new stepmother and stepsister.

      Can you really blame me for not taking an automatic liking to this new family?

      I would venture as far as to say that life was perfect with it just being me and my dad in the house. Sure, I would go through nannies like the Brown children in Nanny McPhee, but I was the center of my dad's universe. Sort of.

      My dad has worked at one of Denver's top law firms since before my sister and I came into existence. He met our mother at a Broncos game when Callum, our older half-brother, was two-years-old. Callum's dad, Harrison Goulding, was a wide receiver for the Broncos at the time so Mom would always take Callum to the home games.

      The two of them had hit it off right away and got married after only dating for a year. A few months after they got married, my mom had found out that she was pregnant with twins. Fast forward to July 24th, 2001, my sister and I made our official debut.

       We had a picture-perfect family... until it wasn't. Somewhere along the way in our first four years of life, Mom and Dad amicably decided to divorce. Mom got full custody of Capri and Dad got stuck with me. Callum was shipped off to go live with his dad but would stay with us when his dad was out of town.

       Unlike my dad, my mom never got remarried. Her heart had been his from the start; that much was clear. In a way, I think his heart had been hers too.

        No matter what they had felt for each other, I partly blame them for putting me in this situation. Had they not divorced, Kaylee and Bria would not be in my life. Had they not divorced, I would have never become the villain just to protect myself from getting hurt.

       If only I could go back in time and stop the destruction before it could happen.