Walking into the front doors, I knew that this place was going to be special. Beyond these doors my future awaits me, this is my chance to start a new. This is where I can become more than a small town girl who had a cliche stepfather who was a cliche drunk, that liked to beat her and her little sister. This is where she can become the real Lois Lane.
As an seventeen year old girl life looks much harder from my young eyes, not only did I have the regular teen dramas of who is dating who or worrying about my period but, I was also burdened by the responsibility of taking care of the family. Mom tries her best but all she has time for it working her two jobs, this is what she needs to do to try and give us the best life. It wasn't like this before. When my father past away my mother was a wreck, she barley left her room. Everything changed when she meet Keith, he seemed to be the perfect guy. Bought presents for Lucy and even tried to get to know me. Eventually, mom thought it was time to make it official. Keith was now officially her stepfather, years past and there wasn't a real change but for some reason he started becoming more jealous of where mom went which he tried to sooth with a bottle of wine which quickly became a bottle of whisky. The drinking turned him into a whole other person, he was more violent and lost all his ambitions to go an work. This is when mom had to pick up another job. This gave us less and less time with her causing our bond that we had to slip away. Lucy being so little still needed someone to look after her, Keith certainly was not suitable to be the guardian of an eight year old, and with mom off working 70 hours a week that only left me a scared 17 year old who just learned how to drive for the love of god how was supposed to take care of a child. After a year we finally found our groove, school drop offs and pick ups, getting homework done on time, but she still was trying to find a way to be more that just a teen from a small town. I started looking for a way out, a beacon of hope, something that could help my family thrive. This is when I came across a craigslist post for HOT GIRLS WANTED being the curious, dumb teenager that I was I decided to check out the add. They were offering girls that were eighteen a chance to go to Las Vegas to become a model, this did seem too good to be true. The owner of the add Lex, said that he would pay for the chosen girls plane fair to Vegas and give us a place to stay.