Dollhouse
By K. Weikel
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My family seems to be perfect from the outside looking in. We have the big house, the money for things, the million-dollar-smiles... but nothing is ever as it seems.
We’re plastic. We’re fake. So fake, in fact, that we hide the little things about us, we hide everything about us, to be more specific. My dad does things he isn’t supposed to, and my mom is taking it hard. My brother has a full ride to any college of his choice, and he’s blowing it away like it’s nothing at all.
So what would happen if someone found out about us? If they saw through our little charade? If they looked past the kitchen curtains that hide every conversation my parents have with each other? What if we were exposed for who we really are, instead of who everyone thinks we are?
INSPIRED BY MELANIE MARTINEZ' SONG DOLLHOUSE
K. Weikel
K. Weikel uses her three-dimensional characters to tell stories of life and adventure and magic."The One-Hundred" won the Wattys Award in 2015 and has reached over two million reads. Weikel has also won the 2017 Writers Awards for Building Monsters. She has written 60 books, including her first manga, "Katharsis". To learn more, visit her website: http://www.kweikel.comSERIES:Underdogs (4)Replay (13)Katharsis (1)The One-Hundred (6 Books, 1 Short Story, 1 Novella)The Haunted Mansion (4)The Blood Room [3 Alternate Endings]TRILOGIES:Dead MenMaskless TrilogyTrapped TrilogyCOMING SOON (1)DUOLOGIES:The Unnamed DuologyStop; GoSTAND-ALONES:WaterloggedThrough the Dimension of NightmaresWhen the Sky EatsCreatures of the BelowNord and the BordSamenessBuilding MonstersDollhouseThe Vampire's CarnivalKrystal's WorldLabyrinthFiguresMatchCagedList X
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Dollhouse - K. Weikel
Dollhouse
By K. Weikel
Inspired by Melanie Martinez’ song Dollhouse
Dollhouse
K. Weikel
Published by K. Weikel at Smashwords
Copyright © 2014 by K. Weikel
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Praise for Dollhouse
"…It’s so sad. It’s in its own way beautiful…"
"…This is such a truthful story because these problems actually exist and people don’t talk about them much..."
"Two words: Mind. Blown."
For my parents and family.
And for everyone who is going through what is in this book.
Dollhouse
Intro
1. Doll-Syndrome
2. Secrets
3. Masks
4. Plastic
5. Crystal
6. Love
7. Family
8. Car Radio
9. John
10. Doll Face
11. Why
12. Breathing
13. This Is It
14. Headlights
Epilogue
About the Author
Other Books
Intro
My dad’s a doctor. My mom runs a bakery. My brother’s a superstar in high school. I’m one of the popular girls that everyone knows. We’re a beautiful family. We don’t argue. We don’t fight. We go to church. We know everyone.
On paper, we’re a perfect family living in our big perfect house with money to spend on anything we want to. But nothing is as it seems.
Nothing is ever as it seems.
My dad’s cheating on my mom with a nurse. My mom has a drinking problem because she knows about his woman on the side, but can’t confront him about it. My brother goes out to get high whenever he can and is starting to get bigger with his addiction, trying stronger things each time.
And none of them realize what they’re doing.
I see things that nobody else sees.
1. Doll-Syndrome
"It was so nice seeing you again, Karen! You have such a wonderful family!"
My mom walks away from Karen Morgan, one of her many distant friends. She’s been a whole lot quieter for the last few months, and I have a feeling that it has something to do with my dad. He’s been cheating on her for maybe four months now and she just found out about two months ago. She always had a problem with drinking, but it’s never been this bad. I think it’s because she doesn’t want to confront him about it in fear that she’ll lose him and tear apart this family and ruin our image as perfect.
But it’s just a theory.
We walk out the front doors of church and to our shiny new car. Dad just got a promotion and decided to congratulate himself with a silver Jaguar. He’s a doctor. I never thought doctors could get a promotion until it happened. I don’t even know what for. Might be because of his affair.
Amabel, honey, could you do the dishes when we get home?
my mom asks with a smile. She has short blonde hair and bright blue eyes. It fits her square face so well that it makes her look way younger than she is. The sea foam green suit she wears with the shiny broach makes her look professional though, completely changing your mind on the whole twenty-year-old her face suggests.
Sure,
I smile back, afraid to upset her. I don’t particularly favor her when she’s drinking, which is usually when my dad disappears. She can get really abusive, so I tend to leave her alone when she takes out the flask she holds in her purse.
"Aw, man, mom, I was going to do them," Tobiah jokes, pushing me to the side a little bit. He’s my brother. He always wears too much cologne to cover up the smell of the stuff he smokes. His muscles are huge, mostly because he’s the star player on the high school football team. It’s his senior year after all, and he wants to go out with a bang. He’s worked hard to keep up with the scholarship to play football for college. He’ll get a free ride, even though he doesn’t need it. We have more than enough money for both of us to go.
Every girl falls all over him when he walks down the hall, and he knows it. He basks in the attention. He got my mother’s hair, giving him the look of a superstar, complete with the amazing blue eyes. It’s thick and light blonde, and he always has it combed back perfectly like a ken doll.
I guess it’s kind of ironic, the resemblance to a ken doll he has, considering our last name is Doll. Tobiah Doll and Amabel Doll.
Yeah right,
my dad laughs. You’ll probably head to the gym as soon as we get into the driveway.
My dad works out with Tobiah a lot too, but only twice to three times a week. He’s busy the rest of the time. Work, he says. I don’t know how my mom didn’t see it...
But anyway, my dad has thick, blonde hair too. His eyes are always bright green, joyful to see anyone else but my mom. His eyes always seem to dull when he’s around her. I’ve always wondered why he looked at her that way. What’s so bad about her?
My dad slides into the driver’s seat, his smile filling his entire face as he rubs the steering wheel proudly. Tobiah, though we can both drive, slide into the back seats as my mom shuts the door. The car is quiet as always. When we’re out somewhere together, we talk. Always. It’s only when we’re alone where we see the walls go up between each other, my dad separating his secrets from my mom, my mom separating hers from him, Tobiah hiding his from all of us, and then there’s me. I hide everything I know from the people who don’t know I know their secrets. Even if they knew, I knew it wouldn’t change anything. They would put on their pretty fake faces, smile, and tell me how absurd it is for me to be thinking things like that.
Pretty little fake faces.
I have it too. The Doll-Syndrome. Fake it till you