Lily: A Short Story

Why does T-Ray care if Lily lives at August’s house for the rest of her life? He has never cared about Lily before. First, T-Ray treats Lily like a bag of garbage. He yells at her for the silliest reasons. One time her yelled at her for reading her book while she was working his peach stand. He said he wanted her to just sit all day and sell peaches but no one even came to buy them. Another cruel thing T-Ray did to Lily is slap her. When T-Ray found Lily at August’s house, Lily refused to go home with him. When Lily said she would not go T-Ray slapped her across the face. The most common form of punishment T-Ray will put Lily through is kneeling on grits. T-Ray assumes the worst in Lily and if he suspects she is doing something wrong he would
He got mad at her for asking the question and changed the subject. Another thing he does is he never asks her what she wants. Lily is constantly talking about how she has always wanted a charm bracelet for her birthday or Christmas, but T-Ray does get her anything for her birthday and he just gets her a set of pajamas every Christmas. T-Ray does not put himself in Lily’s shoes. Lily was already having a hard time knowing that she accidentally killed her mother, but T-Ray just makes her feel worse about it. One time when T-Ray was mad at Lily he told her that Deborah not only left T-Ray but she also left Lily. Lily had always thought that T-Ray was the reason her mother left. Once T-Ray told Lily that her mom purposefully left Lily behind as well as him, Lily was devastated. A reason T-Ray could have wanted Lily to come home with him is because she is like the last piece of Deborah he has left. August has always said that T-Ray used to worship Deborah. August said that T-Ray even loved Deborah more than she loved him. At first Deborah turned down T-Ray when he asked her to marry him, but in the end she said yes because she was pregnant with