My Parents Remarried Without Telling Me, but I Have the Nation Backing Me

As the second child in the family, I was always stuck in the most awkward position.

When I was little, my parents fought bitterly over their divorce.

My father took my older brother, and my mother chose my younger sister.

I was the only one nobody wanted.

By law, the judge awarded custody of me to my father, whose financial situation was better.

But my father and brother ignored me, and if I failed to do the housework properly, they beat and berated me.

My mother was busy taking care of my sister. She called my brother every night and never mentioned me.

I tried my hardest to do everything perfectly, thinking that was how I could get my parents to notice me.

But when I went to find them, overjoyed and holding my acceptance letter from a prestigious university,

I saw photos on their social media of the four of them vacationing abroad together.

Only after reading the friendly comments from our relatives did I learn that my parents had remarried long ago.

My heart went cold in an instant.

So it wasn't the family that had been put back together, but a life with no place for me.