Of No Value
Have you ever felt unimportant? Or worthless? Maybe you got picked last for sport or didn't get invited to the 'party of the year'. Well I've felt like that my whole life. Moving around a lot does that to you, you begin to question why it is they didn't want you in their family. Why it is that your 16 years old and the only home you've had for more than 6 months is a care home where you share a room with 4 other girls? The social workers tell you 'it's not your fault' and 'they weren't ready for a family'. Were they not ready for a family or were they not ready for me? Don't get me wrong I'm not a Lindsay Lohan out of control kind of kid, but I guess you could say I have some issues. But then again what kid in care do you know without issues?
"Rebecca! You are not the only one in this house, other people live here too so could you please refrain form putting up inappropriate picture of young males on the walls" shouted Moss. Mossis the head social worker, she lives with us in the Headley House or as I call it 'Shawshank'. Moss isn't her real name obviously but a few of us named her that after Kate Moss the model, its supposed to be ironic because believe me when I say there is no way Moss will ever get mistaken for the real deal. Anyway that is why I am here taking down pictures of the Kings of Leon. Any other teenage girl is allowed posters of guys on their wall but not me, well I guess I would have been allowed if Laura (the most annoying person in the whole world, the person who you would love to see humiliated just so she knows how it feels) hadn't gone and told on me for putting posters on the walls of the room we share. I mean come on they were fully clothed for crying out loud!
Being in Headley was like being in school there was cliques and a hierarchy. Laura was the queen bee, the most popular girl in school. I was the nerd, the boffin, the invisible one that no-one really pays much attention too. However unlike school there was no escape.
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