"OMG Gina what happened!" My best friend Rachel said to me when I got the bus stop. It was the first day of school. I hadn't seen Rachel all summer because my father wanted me to stay close so he could use me as his punching bag.
My mother and father beat me. Really hard. Rachel was referring to I use to weight 110 pounds but now I weight 95. I also have a lot of bruises all over me face but I couldn't do anything to stop them. I also had dark circle under my eyes from lack of sleep.
My little brother, my little sister and even my older brother needed close attention. My little brother, Todd is 5 always picking fights including with my father that's why I watch him so much. Tara, Todd's twin is shy. Craig my older brother 13 and still watch's Disney Channel. He always is like that. So nice and protecting.
I also hadn't talken to any of my friends because I didn't have a phone in my house except my mother and father's cell phones but they always kept them locked up in a safe. Just incase I didn't try to call the police. Rachel and I were 8 years old.
"Nothing I just thought that maybe I should lose weight so Pam wouldn't say mean jokes to me anymore." I said trying to get off the subject.
Pam is the worst person ever. She was the 'popular' girl in the school everyone is nice to her probably because they are so scared of her. She used to be so nice and friendly. We used to be friends but we got mad at each other about who could blow the biggest bubble with bubble gum in kindergarten. I won and she got mad and said she blew the biggest bubble and that's she won. That's when it all began. I got so mad the next day I told everyone that Pam had been working for the witch in Snow White and was undercover. Everyone believed me. So that was the end of that.
"So what are doing next week maybe, I could come over to your house and we could catch up?" I said trying to avoid eye contact. She knew I was lying. "Gina I am getting really tired of you lying. You are always lying to me… like on the last day of school you weren't there because you were in the hospital with broken ribs and you said you fell down the stairs." She was about to though a fit I could tell.
Rachel usually had real long dark hair. Smiling all the time and cheerful and perky but now her face looked really serious. Something that she never looks like. She looked sad that I wasn't telling the truth like she was going to cry. Whenever she cried I cried. Book to Movie to Each other. We always cried. Lately I have been crying a lot. But even if we are in our own house's. She cry's with me.
Then our bus pulled up. Ron, our bus driver opened the door. The bus was Ron's baby. It was all he had.
"Hot-Diggie-Dog looked who finally came back to see Uncle Ronnie! Genie Crawford!" Ron said looking at me. I laughed. I missed it when people call me that.
After I got in the bus I took a seat and sat down next to a girl who I have never seen before. I guess she didn't hear my sit next to her because she looked startled when she saw me. "Hi my name is Abby!" The girl said. She had light brown hair, brown eyes and Princess Sweatshirt on. "Hi I Gina Crawford but most people call my Genie."