Change isn't something you can stop; sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's unnoticeable, sometimes it's dramatic, and sometimes it just is but it always happens and you can't stop it, can't prevent it, and a lot of times you can't even predict or prepare for it. People fear the unknown so it's no wonder people fear change so much nothings more unknown.
My changes started small I was more wary, quieter, more reflective. Then I started to change outwardly, when I got out of the house I got a new hair cut, new friends, new wardrobe, and new taste in music. I started to hang out with people considered emo, started to wear black, I started to wear eyeliner, nail polish (black), and concealer (as much to hide my scar as to hide my bruises). My music was depressing to say the least but I could relate to it so I liked it. I started to smoke, both cigarettes and pot, and I started to drink; and don't start lecturing me about it because it was either that or give into depression and off myself I needed something to cope and writing all about my messed up life in my journal just wasn't cutting it. Speaking of cutting I did for about two weeks but found too much of a temptation to just cut into the vein and end it all.
My chances of living though the summer were quite slim, at least until I ended up in the emergency room the day after my birthday, my uncles birthday present to me was whoring me out to his supervisors then beating me almost to death, and dumping me in the park in the middle of the night, luckily for me it was the park my friends (the emo kids I mentioned earlier) hung out, Blake, Rick, and Lea found me and Lea had her car. They got me to the hospital as just in time for me to die for the first time that night in the emergency room entrance way. The doctors revived me for the first time that day and got me into surgery I died three times on that table but they managed to bring me back each of those time's I'm still not sure if I'm entirely grateful for that or not. It was August 3rd when I woke up which surprised everyone the doctors weren't even sure if I would ever wake up let alone 2 days after I arrived in the hospital. For the next week I was pampered and received more get well presents than a cancer patient going through chemo, presents from the police my new social worker my friends all the nurses and all my doctors (which were a lot), the police and social worker had arrived on the 4th they had asked me about the abuse and ect. I told them and I also informed them that I didn't wish to press charges just get a private emancipation, there were a couple of squibs who luckily had been sent to question me so I was able to explain why. Then at the end of the week I was discharged by some very reluctant doctors all, I got some tearful goodbyes from all the nurses and some of the doctors and was left in the care of Lea's parents George and Rebecca Sanders who had offered me a place to stay. The Sanders were very well off Rebecca was an heiress and George was high end lawyer who also came from money, though they were very humble and you'd never be able to tell they were loaded if it weren't for the big house and expensive new cars , they never acted snobby or anything. I stayed with the sanders until the 27th when I had to get my school supplies had told them that I had to get ready for boarding school and had the two squibs (Robert and Lucas) from the police bring me to London, they had also gone and got my stuff from the Dursely's though they did that while I was still in the hospital (unfortunately Vernon had killed Hedwig I buried her and had a small funeral for her) . I got a room at the Leaky Cauldron paid until the first bought my supplies and spent the rest of my break reading my course books (paying particular attention to my potions one and decided potions was very similar to cooking) and contemplating over how well a little make up and some contacts had worked in hiding the fact that I was Harry Potter from everyone. When the first came I went to Kings Cross by myself and as I entered platform 9 ¾ I embraced the changes and couldn't wait to give everyone the shock of their life.