chapter 2

                                    

                                          

RJ & Dave walks past me into school as I daydream about what life would be like if I could be them. My best friend Lily comes over yelling earth to rose, hello, rose, snap out of it!
I laugh, saying sorry, then we walk to class; the day goes by fast as the last bell rings, and I'm stuck returning to that dreadful place I'm forced to call home for the next three years.

Oh, how I wish dad was coming back or would have just taken me. I remember asking my birth giver once when I was seven if dad was ever coming back for me; she kicked me down the stairs and told me never to speak of him again. Then he yelled he's never coming back for you; he left because of you, your a useless, good-for-nothing little bitch. I still cry to this day, thinking about that night. I'll be 16 in three weeks; maybe I'll just run away.

"Smack"

I grab my face. Oh god, what did my daydreaming get me into this time? I look up to see May & her friends laughing while Mark is staring at me with the most hateful look on his face yelling something at me. He struck me that my ears were ringing, and I couldn't hear anything from them. I look over & can see RJ & Dave standing there with pissed-off looks on their faces which I don't know why any other time; they walk right past like nothing is happening.

"Smack," then "kick to my stomach."

Dave is now pushing RJ away with the help of a few friends. Mark gets down before me, grabs me by my hair, and yells you ugly worthless mutt. Wtf are you still doing here? Take your ass home. I'm sick of seeing your face. My room better be cleaned, and there better be tacos ready by the time I get home. Now fucking, move, or you won't eat for the following year. I run to lily's, grab Dovey, then home as fast as I can and cut through the football field.

I clean Mark & Mays's room, then run downstairs to start making steak tacos with chips and homemade salsa.
I make myself & Dovey a plate first and run it out to my shad because We're only allowed the leftover scraps, but hey, what they don't know won't kill them. Then I ran back inside and set the table just as the heartless bitch and her offspring walked in from work and whatever they were doing.
I run back out to my shed & eat real fast, so we don't get caught just in case, for some unknown reason, they come to beat me up again.
At about 8:30 pm, everyone goes to their rooms like always, so I head inside and clean up. They didn't leave any food tonight, so thank god I made us some first. I can hear the birth giver & May talk about me, and May sounds sad, asking why it has to be this way. Why can't we go back to being a family?

How it wasn't my fault dad left the bitch slaps her and tells her if you don't want to end up like her, I suggest you STFU and do as I say.
I sneak out of the house and into my little shed and lay on my mattress May gave me six years ago when she got a new one & lay down next to my sleeping Dovey. After hearing their conversations, it got me wondering if May loves me and puts on an act, so the birth giver & Mark don't treat her like me.