I was hiding behind the couch in the living room as my father rampaged through the house.
"CASEY!" my name rang through out the house. Not making a sound I curled into a tighter ball. Suddenly the couch was pulled out and standing above me was my father. He grabbed me by my hair as I screamed.
"No! NO DADDY! No stop please!" he griped my hair tighter.
"Shut up you fucking bitch!" I screamed again as he threw me against the wall. From there I saw my mother's body lying in the kitchen in a pool of blood. Then when I looked up my father came at me with a wooden bat
I woke up screaming and quickly went into the corner. Soon the door burst open and Jim came in.
"Samuels! Samuels where are you?" I stayed in my corner. Soon I came eye to eye with Jim still shaking. He reached for me making me scream and kick him.
"I'm sorry Daddy I didn't do it Joey did!" I yelled at him. He looked at me like I was crazy.
"Better get Stern and Della Robbia." He muttered to himself and left the room. Minutes later I heard the door open again and soon Ulrich was in front of me.
"It's okay Casey I'm here." He said to me. He hugged me tightly while I was still shaking.
"Don't… leave… me." I whispered. Soon I drifted back to sleep.
The next day when I woke up I was in my bed and Ulrich was standing over me.
"How'd you sleep?" he asked me. It took me awhile to process this.
"Fine I guess." He helped me stand up. "Now go I need to get dressed." He walked out and I quickly pulled out a green tank top with a grey men's button down shirt and a dark wash denim mini skirt with my favorite hiking boots. I pulled my hair into a bun which was hard because my hair was done to my knees, then I put on my clothes leaving the over shirt open. I put on some black lip gloss that no one could really see and grabbed my bag. I met Ulrich and the others at breakfast.
"Hey Casey," Yumi and Aelita greeted me.
"S'up guys." I said sitting down. Odd eyed my food greedily. "Take it." And he did i was kinda of scared. Soon the bell rang and slammed my head into the table, it hurt but I ignored the pain. "What do we have first?" I asked speaking into the table.
"Physics." Odd answered, I groaned and slammed my head into the table again before getting up. We walked into physics and took our seats mine was next to Aelita Jeremie next to her Odd next to him and Ulrich was on the other side of me. Right before Mrs. Hertz started the lesson Mr. Delmas walked in.
"Oh Mr. Delmas what a surprise." Mrs. Hertz said looking kinda shocked to see him. "How can I help you?"
"I'm sorry for the interruption Mrs. Hertz but we have a new student." He said. "Please come in young man." Soon I heard gasps go around the room. Standing in front of the class was a boy that looked like well, me. It was scary. Everyone turned around and stared at me.
"Turn around if you know what's good for ya." I threatened.
"Well would you like to say another thing to the class young man?" Mrs. Hertz asked he nodded.
"My name's Joseph Samuels, I'm thirteen years old and I was adopted." He said.
"Thank you Mr. Samuels you can sit next to Casey, Casey please raise your hand." I didn't I just said,
"I'm the one everyone stares at!" I added a fake cry making the class burst out laughing. He sat next to me.
"Hi I'm Jo-"
"I know who you are I'm your twin sister." I said cutting him off. Then I slammed my head into the desk again and attempting to get some sleep.
