Since I was little everyone has wanted me to do what they wanted nothing more and nothing less. I've become a puppet not by my choice but a puppet none the less. I tried to make someone see that I wasn't any one really but that didn't really happen. The more I tried to become someone who did nothing for people the more I would have to do so I just accepted that I was never going to get out of it.

"Jenna get up!" My mother yelled.

"I am up mother."

"I need you to come make Mikey's lunch for today I've got to go in thirty minutes."

I went down stairs and started getting my little brothers lunch ready. He was going on a trip with his school today to the football stadium today to watch the game. He was the only one that saw what people were doing to me and didn't like it, he was becoming my little hero. Today he was so excited to go, he has waited for this for three weeks now and bought Gotham City Rouges everything. Mikey was the only one that I loved more than anything.

"Bye sweet heart. Oh but before I go can you make sure your brother makes it home today. And I need laundry done sweet heart. You are slaking on your job honey." My mother said.

"I'll get everything done mom, have a good day at work."

"Thank you sweet heart you're a really big help." She said as she kissed my cheek and left.

I had finished high school two years ago but I couldn't leave because i was afraid to leave Mikey alone with our mother so I guess I took the role of being the adult in this house. My mother always had other men in the house and she would be gone every night because it was easier getting drunk every night instead of being the mother. I never knew my father he left when I was five and Mikey's dad was just a dead beat that needed money and he left when there really wasn't anything left for him to stay for. We've had shit luck but they say everything has to get better. I separated all the laundry into piles so when I got home I could get to them faster. I went outside. It was still warm, still nice. Today seemed like one of the best days in a long time, I closed my eyes and let the sun hit my skin and it felt like home. I loved everything about the outdoors it just seemed to calm me down when nothing else could. When I was little I would run out side when my mother brought a random man home and they would start fighting. The outside was my escape from everything and everyone. Why? I don't really know I mean a lot more people outside but they seem to never really bother you and I like that. I hate when people just randomly tell you everything about them. I'm not your shrink and I don't care.

I saw people running home a few hours later and then I turned on the TV and saw it. There was this man in a mask talking about a bomb in the city. I started to freak out because my brother was at that stadium I turned off the TV and started to run to the stadium. There were so many people running back to their houses when I got there. I couldn't find my brother and I started freaking even more. Even though that kid is a pain in my ass he still was my little brother and I loved the kid more than anything. I saw these men with guns and then I saw my little brother in the middle of them. I walked over there.

"Mike, come on now." I said trying to take his hand.

"So you're the sister he was talking about. You're hot." One said.

"Stay the fuck away from me creep ass. Mike let's go home now."

"You even have a feisty side. I like that." He said pulling me by my arm.

I hit him in his face. "I said stay the fuck away from me." I took my brother's arm and started to walk away.

"I'll remember your face sweet heart."

"Don't strain yourself. I know that's gotta be hard for someone like you."

My brother and I were already too far away to hear what they were trying to come back with. All I was thinking was that my mom was gonna kill me because I hadn't finished the laundry yet. I got home and there she was calling everyone she knew about what just happened at the stadium.

"Where have you two been?" She yelled.

"Mikey was at the stadium when that shit went down mom or did you forget?"

"Oh my goodness. How could you let that happen Jenna?" She said taking him in her arms.

"I'm not his mom. I didn't sign the thing that allowed him to go to that stadium."

"Now is not the time to be stubborn or rude Jen."

"I'm just saying you want to blame it on me when you said he could go. I have to finish the laundry."

I stared to walk away and I went to the laundry room and put the whites in with some bleach. My head was spinning and I was freaking out on the inside. One of us needed to be calm for mikes sake. I wanted to wake up from this day and learn that it was all just my imagination playing tricks on me like I always wanted my life to be. A few hours later I heard something coming from the TV so I walked in there.

"What's happening?" I asked.

"The masked man, Bane, is letting the criminals go. I'm scared Jenna."

I walked over to him and held him in my arms. "Don't be, things like this always seem to fix themselves I promise."

"She yelled at you again,"

"I know,"

"Why do you let her boss you around like she does? I mean she's just using you because you won't tell her no for a change,"

"She's my mom and she knows what's best even though I can't see it all the time,"

"So that's your excuse to let her walk all over you?"

"She has gone through a lot that you can't understand now Mikey. One day you will and then you will understand why I let her talk down to me and make me do things that she should be doing,"

"I will never understand."

"You're just a kid I get it."

"You are more like my mom then she is,"

"Mikey that is rude and we don't say things like that,"

"It's true. You were the one that kissed my boo boos and got excited when I got good grades,"

"She was always working. She does it because she's trying to give you the best chance in life,"

"No she isn't, she is just trying to have someone else raise her kid so she doesn't have to,"

"Enough of that, let's change the channel,"

"It's on every channel,"

"Well that's annoying,"

"Tell me about it,"

Our mom walked in and she tried changing that channels but she soon found out what both of us knew already. She rolled her eyes and went back into the kitchen to call her friends again. I was afraid that my little brother was right she didn't really care what would happen to him because she just wanted an easier way out. I got up and went back to doing the laundry. I finished them and went to the kitchen. I was very surprised to see that my mom was cooking.

"Do you need help?" I asked.

"No, I've got this,"

"How was your day other than the crazy man threatening the city with a bomb?"

"I got to work and then the boss started hitting on me like he always does. Then I worked on some papers for a little while and then I got the news. So I came straight home and neither of you were here so I started to get really scared and then you came in a little while after? You?"

"I separated the laundry and went outside for a little walk. Then I heard people screaming when I started walking home. I walked inside turned on the TV and saw the masked dude on the TV at the stadium and went to go get Mike."

"Mike said that there were these men hurting him but you stopped them just before they really hurt him,"

"I just came at the right time. They were creeps and they were messing with a little boy. I got to be a smart-ass and then I left that's all that happened I promise,"

"I'm scared Jen,"

"We all are,"

"Do you believe that man?"

"That, that thing he has, was a bomb? I don't know what to think but I hope not,"

"I'm sorry,"

"For what?"

"I just feel like I need to tell you I'm sorry,"

"You heard him didn't you?"

"Yes,"

"I'm not going to say he didn't mean it because he did. But you can't really blame the kid he hasn't known his mom all these years because you are either working or clubbing. I'm not saying that you should stop working but he needed you and you weren't there and I was. I'm sorry if this makes you mad but it's the truth,"

"I don't mean to walk all over you,"

"Yeah you do. Mom if you didn't mean it then you wouldn't do it. I feel your pain and I get it so I don't care,"

"You never got to go to college,"

"College isn't everything mom,"

"It is to you,"

"Not really. Why do you think I stayed? I could have left at any moment but I couldn't. Why? Because you needed me. I was the one that held your hair when you were too drunk to do it yourself or helped you make dinner when you couldn't think straight because you were busy with work. I couldn't leave you in that state…. You're my mom."

"There are some things that I wish I could redo and our relationship is one of them,"

"Nah I think it's better that we've had ups and downs that just makes us who we are,"

That night I looked at into the sky and just kept thinking of how things could be if my father did stay. The day he left I remember my mom drink so much and that night she had blamed it on me. I never told her about what she said because it really wasn't something you bring up in light conversation. I heard the screaming of a woman out side and I closed my eyes. How could this be giving the city back to the people when you let the criminals hurt the people who you say run the city. The screaming dies down and I was just wondering what had happened to that women. Was she raped? Was she killed? It didn't matter because if I had said anything against it then I would most likely be put in that situation and I can't be, I have too much riding on my life.