A Degrassi FanFic
Titled:"Why Me?"
Chapter 1: "Get To Know Tiyanna"
Tiyanna Shaun'Treace Moore laid on her bed happy that she moved to Toronto. Listening to The Game's "300 bars" she felt like The Game. If people don't want to accept you, they just don't want you. You don't have to try so hard to fit in. And that was something Tiyanna was doing while staying in Scarborough. Regardless of her family's situation she wanted to hang out with the little preppy slightly wealthy popular girls. But now she realized that she isn't like them, and she should be herself. It doesn't take rap music to figure that out but at least it feels good to know that a rapper that she loves is going through something that she's going through.
Tiyanna's parents are divorced, and her father is a so called "player" and pretty much a slob. So her mother has custody of her and her little sister Chanell. Tiyanna felt at peace, she was just by herself. Just her and her music, she had time to think and have no duties to fulfill. Maybe it was because her mother and grandmother weren't home. Tiyanna stayed with her mother and her grandmother and it was hell. They barely had happy moments. Some people would swear up and down that Tiyanna's grandmother hated her. The old woman would constantly put Tiyanna to work, lie on her, punish her for the littlest things, and just make her life a living hell.
So the moments when her mother and grandmother aren't home, Tiyanna has a good time. Listening to her music, reading, or sleeping is what she basically did during her time alone. Getting up off her bed, Tiyanna popped in a CD that she just burned. It just consisted of her favorite songs. Soon as her finger pressed "play" Jody Breeze' voice was as loud as ever. While his hit "Stackin paper" was being played, Tiyanna started rapping along with Jody and Slim Thug. Looking in her 6 foot tall mirror, Tiyanna started playing with her hair. This just made her remember, to call her best friend Laura to do her hair. But she had to make sure her mother wasn't in a bad mood and that her grandma was out of sight. It was just something about her grandmother's presence that made things horrible.
Shaking her butt to Fabolous' "Girls", it was just something about that song that she loved. Looking mostly at her face, Tiyanna saw that she had a pimple on her chin. "Damnit, I thought this wouldn't happen to me". But she should have figured that it was bound to happen. Every teen gets it at least once in they're life. Looking through her dark brown eyes, Tiyanna saw a rubber band sitting on her dresser. Taking the rubber band, and putting her dark brown shoulder length hair in a ponytail, she grabbed her headphones and plugged them into her radio. She definitely didn't want her grandmother or her mother yelling at her about blasting music in the house that she didn't own.
It wasn't that Tiyanna wasn't properly fed. It also wasn't that she was just this bummy little Cinderella type of girl. Tiyanna Moore was clean, she was properly fed, and she had nice clothes and nice things. The only problem was how she was at times treated. Her mother wasn't the problem. It was just that her mother listened to every little word that came out of Tiyanna's grandmother's mouth. This was something that got very frustrating. Tiyanna just knew that she should keep to herself in the house, and be about her school work. The half Trinidadian female laid on there on the floor wondering how her new school was going to be like. She had been inside and couldn't wait to go. School would be starting in 2 days and she was so excited. Listening to Ciara's hit single "Oh", Tiyanna was fantasizing about her new school and the kind of characters that were in it.
But every school was basically the same. You had everybody in a little clique, and the outcasts, and the mean teachers. Tiyanna hoped she didn't get any mean teachers but if she did it didn't matter. She could put up with mean people. But Tiyanna had been in the school, and she really loved how it was decorated. She enjoyed the atmosphere, and the principal seemed to be pretty cool. She couldn't wait to start school. Tiyanna was one of those kids who actually liked school. She put her focus on her education, and it was a place to be for 7 hours and be away from her mother and G-ma.
Lost in thought about her new school, Tiyanna didn't even hear the door open. All she did was feel her headphones being snatched off her head. She just felt fear and she knew it was her mother. Her G-Ma would have just pushed her or kicked her, something of that sort. But what Tiyanna didn't know was what in the hell she did, or supposedly did this time. Her mother violently grabbed her right arm and tightly gripped it while leading her down stairs. As they entered the kitchen, Tiyanna saw the breakfast dishes in the sink. She then looked at the clock on the stove. It read 4:35 P.M. Tiyanna woke up at around 1:00 P.M, she brushed her teeth, took a shower, read some chapters of the book "Larceny" by Jason Poole, and then listened to her music. She hadn't stepped foot downstairs. So how in the hell would she know the dishes needed to be washed?
"So, Grandma Mary tells you to wash the dishes before we go to your Auntie Kim's house and you just lay around this house doing nothing." While her mother ran her mouth, Tiyanna got a sponge and some soap and let the water run. She then proceeded to wash the dishes when her mother pulled her by the ear. "So why the hell didn't you wash those dishes, and look at me when I'm talking to you little girl!" Tiyanna was started to get frustrated but she didn't let her features show it. Instead she did as she was told, and looked her mother straight in her angry light brown eyes. She decided to answer the question. "I haven't been downstairs all day, and she never told me to wash the dishes. I was asleep and didn't get up till around 1 o'clock ma" Tiyanna stated calmly while looking at her mother dead in her eyes.
"Do you expect me to believe that bullshit, and you tryna call yo own G-ma a liar?" Tiyanna's mother replied as if she was about to hit her. "I'm not saying that, I'm just saying maybe she doesn't remember, and I didn't eat with these dishes and I wasn't even awoke…how would I know?" Tiyanna said wanting her mother to just shut up and leave her alone. So her grandmother lied on her, and her mother had a bad day. That means Tiyanna would have one also. This kind of thing wasn't new. From the way her mother talked to her, to the way her mother handled the situation. Some rage of fury that was in her mother decided to be unleashed. "Are you trying to get smart with me? Do you know who the fuck you are talking to Tiyanna? I brought you into this world; please believe I'll take you out of it. If you don't wanna do any work, I'll send yo ass to live with yo daddy. So you can have a house full of filth. But don't you dare try to refer to your grandmother: MY mother as a liar!" Tiyanna didn't even reply. She just wanted her mother to close her mouth so that she could get done with the dishes.
She just looked at her and waited for her to be finished. But her mother took that as intimidation, she felt like Tiyanna didn't fear her. So all the anger from getting a ticket, her being pregnant, and getting divorced was all taken out on her first born; which was Tiyanna. Her mother pinched her cheek and slowly but with aggressiveness in her voice. "Don't fuck around and make me hurt you. You'll be in the cemetery and me in jail." But the grip her mother had on her cheek was a hard one. Because, when her mother pulled away Tiyanna felt a bit of a sting. It didn't take much to figure out that her mother left a scratch on her face. Satisfied, her mother walked away. Shaking her head Tiyanna thought to herself: Gods going to get you for this ma, he's gonna get you for doing this to me.
While washing the dishes, Tiyanna didn't even think the fact that her father left the house caused this. It was only just 3 months ago that her father left the house, their divorce wasn't final till last week. It was a funny thing that her father still stayed with them while they were going through their divorce. But it took them plenty of months to decide who would leave the house. But the fact of the matter was that her mother treated her the same when her father was in the house, but it wasn't this bad. Her mother talked about getting a divorce since Tiyanna was about 11-years-old, but it was shocking that in the end her father ended up filing for divorce.
Tiyanna always thought that her mother truly loved her father. She would always have food on the table when he came home from work, and do his laundry even when they were going through problems. But Tiyanna really didn't even care about that, it wasn't her problem. After washing the dishes she cleaned up the kitchen and headed upstairs. As she walked past her grandma's room, she heard her mother talking; "But ma, I'm pregnant and me and Greg are DIVORCED!"
"Hush child, you want one of yo nosy ass kids to hear you, especially Tiyanna she'll run and tell Greg in a flash" Grandma Mary replied. "Now, you are three months pregnant. Why in the hell did you have sex with him, you thought that would let him stay? Giving him a night of freaky sex and you think he'd stay? Yvette you must out yo head…I don't know what to say to you" Grandma Mary added.
"I can't abort the baby ma, that's just wrong…I don't know why I had sex with him...I thought that would actually work…" Those were the words Tiyanna heard her mother say before she went on to her room. She didn't want to take a chance and get caught listening in on them. But her father had her mother trapped; she would probably love that man till the day she dies. Her mother, now Yvette Winston, is a beautiful woman. She's 5'6, 145 pounds and has a nice shape, with beautiful light brown eyes. But she was a love blind, pretty abusive person. People would think that she was the nicest woman ever but she was far from it. The only person she was nice to 24/7 was Greg Moore, Tiyanna and Chanell's father. She even had a tattoo that read "Yvette –N- Greg 4Lyfe" on her lower back. But no one really knew what she was like. Ms. Winston looked just like her mother, except Grandma Mary had caramel skin and hazel eyes. Plus Ms. Winston believed everything her mother told her, and would do basically anything to get Greg back. But sometimes her love for him would turn into hate, when she looked at her first born. Tiyanna's eyes were identical to her father's, something that Grandma Mary hated. Tiyanna's G-Ma hated Greg, she felt that he had put Yvette through too much crap. So at times, she'd take her anger out on Tiyanna.
But Tiyanna knew none of these things, but if she did it wouldn't mean anything, because it was more than that. Those weren't the only reasons of her mother and G-ma's behaviors. Some kids in Tiyanna's situation would be very depressed, but Tiyanna always believed things happened for a reason, and that god would punish all the people trying to hurt her. Picking up her cell phone, she saw that's he had a message. It was nobody but her boyfriend Derrick. They had been going out for about 5 months and he was glad that she was going to be joining him at Degrassi this year. Derrick had been going to Degrassi since grade 8 and said it was a great school.
Tiyanna read the text message and a smile came across her face as she read these words. Hey boo, I just wanted to tell u dat I love u. Derrick was a cute brown-skinned boy with brown eyes and a cute smile. She loved his nice wavy hair that he kept in braids or twists. A lot of girls were constantly on Derrick, but Tiyanna didn't care. She wasn't one to want to get in drama. Just when she was getting ready to text him back, she heard her grandma yelling. "Tiyanna, bring yo ass downstairs right now. Haven't you heard me calling yo ass!" Tiyanna decided to reply to him later, and deleted the message. She had to be very careful. The 15-year-old didn't want her mother going through her phone and seeing what her boyfriend had sent her.
Before heading downstairs, she looked in the mirror and saw the scratch. That was going to be on her face for a while. "I'm coming G-Ma" Tiyanna said as she rolled her eyes and mumbled under her breath; "Why Me?"