The bell rang breaking me from the thoughts of my past. I quickly gather my belongings and made my way to the door when my professor called my name. I turned to her with a questioning look on my face. "Has everything been alright, I've noticed you've been a little off." she spoke. "Oh yes ma'am everything is fine thanks for checking." I replied to her.
I couldn't explain to her that my mother was a bitter woman who took all her anger out on me while my stepdad eggs her on. I couldn't explain that the only parent I had left despised me. That the only parent I had left couldn't look at my skin without being disgusted by the sight of it. The only parent I had treats me like trash because she believes I'm the cause for my dad leaving. I couldn't tell her I was being abused verbally and sometimes physically by the only parent I had left. I already lost one I can't lose them both.
Walking out of the class heading home to get ready for work. I worked two jobs my first one was a nail salon named "Nailed by Nelly" and a local diner named "Mama Roses". The owners Ms. Nelly and Mama Rose were both nice and understanding older women. When things at home got too tough, they both opened their arms to me and my baby brother Damarii without any problems.
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Ms. Nelly
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Mama Rose
Damarii was my pride and joy and the only important person in my life. Ive contemplated taking my life on multiple occasions, and he is the reason I'm still alive. Ive raised him on my own over these past 8 years. Our mom and his dad aren't absent, but they care more about themselves and their drugs than they do him.
The walk home from school was nice and short. Walking into the house I was instantly filled with anger after cleaning the whole house spotless yesterday evening I come home to beer cans on the floor, needles, broken glass, ashtrays, and pizza boxes everywhere. I sighed I had an hour before I had to go to mama roses and thirty minutes until it was time for me to walk and meet Damarii at the bus stop.
