As I looked out the window of the car, rain drops against the window it was mid July my ipod was playing as loud as possible, I was in my social worker Nancy's car. I'm 13 almost 14. The last time I remember being in one of these cars was when I was nine and they had taken me from my mother but eventually some how she won me back, but soon enough she dumped me on my aunt, who shipped me to my uncle, who then gave me to his daughter. No one ever wanted me. But now it seemed someone did or might, they didn't really know me I give it a month and they'll send me somewhere else or worse back to Daisy my uncles daughter I had been living with for almost two years.
I didn't choose to go away to rehab and be sent to a family who wanted to adopt me. I was here because I hurt my friend whose mom turned me in but since Daisy had allowed all this to go on I was let of the hook and sent me to a rehab center for a couple months while they tried to find an adoptive family for me.
I remember the night that I hurt my friend Heather, she had tears streaming down her eyes. A look of fear on her faces a sickly pale.
"Aubrie what, what the fuck happened what do they know?"
"They found all my stuff the money the booze everything and then Daisy called your mom I'm sorry."
I gave her a hug because we were both in for a rollercoaster ride. We both cried together, we knew that this might be the last time we see each other.
In the end Daisy accused Heather for my bad behavior and Heather's mom got mad at me and accused me and although it was the truth that it was my fault I didn't think so, it wasn't until I was in rehab I realized what I had done to Heather. But all along Daisy knew but encouraged it along with drinking and sex.
My life was a mess not that it ever wasn't, getting high was all I knew. When I was high the world seemed to dissolve around me and all my memories were forgotten. But I hated what I had become, a monster who only wanted people below her so she could feel on top. But now as I sit in this car it seems I'm below rock bottom.
I was so nervous I wanted this family to like me, more than that I wanted to get out of this damn car my legs were numb. We road down a few back roads and onto a very nice street through a development named Eagle Gates I was already guessing I'd be living here. I got more nervous the houses were huge. This was so much different than the apartments and half ass houses I had lived in all my life. The nicest house I had ever seen 'till now was Heather's house. It couldn't be that bad here as we drove by a pool with a waterslide and a huge park that's all I could say to myself. We drove around a corner to a wide street.
"We're almost there" Nancy said "it's just up here" she pointed to a blueish gray house.
The house was huge from the outside with a garden in the front. From what I heard it was a small family a dad who was a Dr. And the mother who was an author and a son and daughter I didn't remember much about them. They were the Gartner family. Nancy pulled the car up the drive way in front of a huge garage. She got out of the car I followed behind her taking one of my bags with me, I didn't own much. I went to the trunk grabbing my small suitcase and carried it to the door I quickly looked up at the sky and said
"Guess I'm home"