Victoria discovered her grandfather’s favorite sofa was still in the living room when she went back to his house in Iowa. After sitting on it for a time and reminiscing about her early years, it abruptly cracked. Her entire life was altered by what she found within.
After growing weary of poverty, Victoria’s mother, Ella, left her at an early age and fled to New York with her lover. Victoria’s father, Edward, worked as a warehouse operator at night and as a delivery man in the mornings, but the income was insufficient to support the family.
On top of that, there was Victoria’s grandfather Silas who was in the last stages of his life fighting his battle with cancer and primarily himself. So Ella found an easy way out of her misery by moving from Iowa to New York with her boyfriend.
Victoria was 15 years old at the time. The teenager had hardly gotten over her mother’s elopement when her father passed away in a tragic accident a few months later, leaving her and Silas alone.
Ella paid Victoria visits and talked to her on the phone after Edward’s death, but Silas didn’t like it. He had never liked her in the first place, but after she left them, he hated her even more.
However, when Silas left for his heavenly abode a year later, it forced Victoria to relocate to her mother’s home in New York. Dave, Ella’s so-called lover, clearly didn’t like her, and Victoria didn’t admire him either.