CHAPTER ONE: Welcome to Nowhere, Pennsylvania
"Don't keep the change," I tell the driver as I hand him twenty dollars. Fresh dollars.
His greedy, brown eyes stare at the cash before snapping to me. I raise my eyebrows, extending a hand impatiently for the money I should get back. The sleazy man groans before pulling out his nearly empty wallet and digging through it to find me five dollars. I need all the money I can get - I'm especially not going to waste it on a slimeball like this. I earned that money, whether or not fair and square.
"Thank you," I mock, snatching the green out of his fat hands and exiting the blue cab. Opening the trunk, I take out my two back-packs and watch the man drive away as soon as I shut the back.
"Caleb Rivers?" a voice behind me demands. I pucker my lips before slowly turning around with my charming smile.
"Yes?" I ask, raising my eyebrows again as I tug my home back-pack over my shoulder.
"I'm Janet Reeds, your new . . . foster mother," Janet drawls, her voice harsh. "Welcome to your home for the next few months." I immediately know what sort of foster home I got landed with. The kind that just wants the money; the kind I've had plenty of.
Yeah, I snort to myself, welcome to Nowhere, Pennsylvania.