At First Sight

Lilibet Masters came from a home she liked to think was like many others, although that was probably far from being true. Her father Joseph was a drunk and her mother Anne was unable to muster up the courage to take her children and leave.

She would crawl into her older sister Elizabeth's bed at night and cover her ears to try and block out their father's yells and their mother's cries.

From the ripe age of 3, Lilibet helped her father and older sister with chores in the barn and out in the fields. When she was old enough to start school, she had chores in the morning before she left and in evening when she returned.

Her father ran a small cattle farm in Wyoming, with just enough cattle to keep their heads afloat. They had chickens, pigs, and a jersey cow so they could have fresh eggs, meat, and dairy for their household.

Lili could remember good and bad days from her childhood, some days she wished she could jump on her horse and ride off into the sunset. But other days she loved her life. She would tell herself her father only drank at night so during the day he was a great father. Which most of the time, he was. Even sometimes when he drank, he was sweet. He would say how proud he was of Lili and her sister. How in love he was with their mother, and how lucky he was to have all his girls happy and healthy.

Lili went to a community college to study agriculture, while her sister decided to study abroad and become a teacher. In doing so, Elizabeth had left her sister to be one to stay behind and help her father with the farm. Lili was okay with this, although she would admit to her self at times she did wish she could switch places with her sister. Be able to build a life for herself without following in her father's foot steps. But she knew, even with everything their father has put them through, she couldn't just leave him to run this place on his own.

So she stayed. She was now a woman. She had thicker callouses on her hands than many of those "cowboys" at the bars who in reality were just tourists. "Cowboys rarely have time to go to a bar" she would say. 

She would work all day on the farm, help out neighbours when they needed it, and she would sing at local bars a couple nights a week.

She cooked as well as her grandmother, which seems fitting as her grandmother is the one who taught her. She made fresh cheese, bread, butter, and pretty well anything else you could think of.

Lilibet has never been in a real relationship before. She was a very focused young lady who didn't want any distractions. After high school, she went straight into college and has been working with her father and singing on the side ever since. Not that there haven't been interested prospects. The Masters siblings weren't hard on the eyes and when the eldest sister was home from college she would convince Lili to go out to parties. With parties came drunk men trying to find someone to take home. 

For Lili, it wasn't the fact that the men weren't good looking or well mannered. Most of them were, it was the fact that she could smell the same alcohol on their breath as she did when their father was throwing one of his many fits. At a very young age, Lili vowed to never end up with a man that was even remotely close to her father. At the ripe age of 25, Lili can say she has stuck to that promise. 

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Author's note: 

This chapter is just so you get to know Lilibet's back story. The main storyline will start in chapter two :)