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I caked makeup around my puffy black eye and covered the new rope burns around my wrists. Mother and stepfather had gotten drunk again. After mother passed out I was at stepfather's mercy, and when he's drunk he didn't have any to share.
Carefully I threw my make-up in my blue duffel, which I quickly locked in my closet. I grabbed my school bag and headed out to the bus. If anyone noticed that I ever got hurt no one said anything. I had no friends. I pushed everyone away when mother married that awful man that was now my stepfather.
Mother never believes when I tell her of the things that he does to me. He denies it, and she believes him.
Hope is gone.
I watched my feet as I walked out into the cold morning air to the bus stop to take me to school. How I hate school, but it's better than being at home.
I looked down at myself. My jeans were an inch short and in last year's style, my shirt was old and faded, mother cut my hair in that ugly bowl shape and my shoes were a size to small. My family could afford to buy new clothes and shoes if mother and stepfather didn't spend all their money on beer.
As I drew near the chatter of the other's stopped. They'd been talking about me again. They always do. They just don't understand what's going on inside me. They don't understand how much it hurts when they talk. But at the same time it's kind of interesting to see that they never seem to get hurt as much as I do. perhaps their beating father was nicer? More lenient than mine?
I stepped onto the bus and sat in the first seat. Not even glancing at the faces that stared. It seemed that everyone knew me as *that girl whose parent's beat* as if it was something different. Just about everyone guessed, but no one did anything and I am too afraid to say anything to anyone besides what would it matter if I said anything? Doesn't everyone's parents beat their kids? If I did say something and stepfather found out.... I don't want to think of what he would do to me.
At school I got off the bus and headed for the baseball fields. No one went out there during class the perfect place to spend my ditch-day. The day after a particularly bad night I always ditch school, at school. So my parents never find out and I don't have to be embarrassed in every class with students asking a million questions about my rope burns and my new black eye. I tried to hide with make up but it make up never completely hides any cut, bruise, or burn I get.
I threw my backpack on the ground and lay down on the bleachers to watch the day tick slowly by. Slowly I drifted of to sleep.
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I woke with a start sometime later something had tickled my ear. I sat bolt upright with a small scream. "What happened? Where am I? Am I still dreaming?" I shrieked looking around me.
I was in a dense forest with birds singing in the trees and a slow cold rain fell from a clouded over sky. "Ack!" I said throwing my hands over my head in a futile attempt to cover my head from the rain. I scrambled to my feet and started to run only to trip and fall smack on my face. I looked over my shoulder to see what had tripped me and saw a duffel bag... the blue bag that held all of my prized possessions. "How...?" I said aloud knowing that for the bag to be here was impossible, wherever here was. ~I didn't bring that to school; it should be locked in my closet at home. Shouldn't it?~ I thought standing up and pulling the bag over my shoulder. "Where am I to go?" I said looking around as the rain steadily increased. "I don't even know where I am!" futile tears threatened to come, but I fought them away. I just turned and started in a direction. Not knowing where I was going or if this... place. was going to be better or worse than home.
The sun sank below the horizon and the rain continued to fall steadily, not showing any sign of let up. I was cold, hungry and lost. ~What am I to do?~ I thought as the light slowly disappeared. It was foolish to continue on in the dark... who knew what was lurking in the dark?
As the last light disappeared I stumbled into a clearing with a large blue lake at the center. ~perfect~ I thought settling down against a tree trunk near the water's edge. Knowing sleep would be hard to come by I huddled down and tried to stay warm.
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I caked makeup around my puffy black eye and covered the new rope burns around my wrists. Mother and stepfather had gotten drunk again. After mother passed out I was at stepfather's mercy, and when he's drunk he didn't have any to share.
Carefully I threw my make-up in my blue duffel, which I quickly locked in my closet. I grabbed my school bag and headed out to the bus. If anyone noticed that I ever got hurt no one said anything. I had no friends. I pushed everyone away when mother married that awful man that was now my stepfather.
Mother never believes when I tell her of the things that he does to me. He denies it, and she believes him.
Hope is gone.
I watched my feet as I walked out into the cold morning air to the bus stop to take me to school. How I hate school, but it's better than being at home.
I looked down at myself. My jeans were an inch short and in last year's style, my shirt was old and faded, mother cut my hair in that ugly bowl shape and my shoes were a size to small. My family could afford to buy new clothes and shoes if mother and stepfather didn't spend all their money on beer.
As I drew near the chatter of the other's stopped. They'd been talking about me again. They always do. They just don't understand what's going on inside me. They don't understand how much it hurts when they talk. But at the same time it's kind of interesting to see that they never seem to get hurt as much as I do. perhaps their beating father was nicer? More lenient than mine?
I stepped onto the bus and sat in the first seat. Not even glancing at the faces that stared. It seemed that everyone knew me as *that girl whose parent's beat* as if it was something different. Just about everyone guessed, but no one did anything and I am too afraid to say anything to anyone besides what would it matter if I said anything? Doesn't everyone's parents beat their kids? If I did say something and stepfather found out.... I don't want to think of what he would do to me.
At school I got off the bus and headed for the baseball fields. No one went out there during class the perfect place to spend my ditch-day. The day after a particularly bad night I always ditch school, at school. So my parents never find out and I don't have to be embarrassed in every class with students asking a million questions about my rope burns and my new black eye. I tried to hide with make up but it make up never completely hides any cut, bruise, or burn I get.
I threw my backpack on the ground and lay down on the bleachers to watch the day tick slowly by. Slowly I drifted of to sleep.
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I woke with a start sometime later something had tickled my ear. I sat bolt upright with a small scream. "What happened? Where am I? Am I still dreaming?" I shrieked looking around me.
I was in a dense forest with birds singing in the trees and a slow cold rain fell from a clouded over sky. "Ack!" I said throwing my hands over my head in a futile attempt to cover my head from the rain. I scrambled to my feet and started to run only to trip and fall smack on my face. I looked over my shoulder to see what had tripped me and saw a duffel bag... the blue bag that held all of my prized possessions. "How...?" I said aloud knowing that for the bag to be here was impossible, wherever here was. ~I didn't bring that to school; it should be locked in my closet at home. Shouldn't it?~ I thought standing up and pulling the bag over my shoulder. "Where am I to go?" I said looking around as the rain steadily increased. "I don't even know where I am!" futile tears threatened to come, but I fought them away. I just turned and started in a direction. Not knowing where I was going or if this... place. was going to be better or worse than home.
The sun sank below the horizon and the rain continued to fall steadily, not showing any sign of let up. I was cold, hungry and lost. ~What am I to do?~ I thought as the light slowly disappeared. It was foolish to continue on in the dark... who knew what was lurking in the dark?
As the last light disappeared I stumbled into a clearing with a large blue lake at the center. ~perfect~ I thought settling down against a tree trunk near the water's edge. Knowing sleep would be hard to come by I huddled down and tried to stay warm.
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