Making It Through

Bunny Mishka and Drugs

So there we were. Traveling down to Texas. I stared longingly out the back window. "When can I see daddy again?"

"I'm your daddy now," my step dad said.

"Oh..." I looked down at my Rei plushie. "I'll get back to you some day, Eyelash," I whispered. I fell asleep hugging Rei.

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I woke up to the sound of a cat meowing. "Yui. Wake up," my stepdad said. I blinked open my eyes to find a cat laying on my stomach.

"What's his name?"

"It's up to you to choose a name."

"I'm going to name him something so epic! To show up to my birth parents how awful their name choices are!"

"So what are you going to name him?"

"Bunny."

My stepdad burst out laughing. "That's such a terrible name for an orange cat like that!"

I started crying. "Leave me alone!"

My step dad hopped into the front seat of the car and started driving. I sat up and grabbed Bunny and then I set Rei beside me and strapped him in. "We'll both go to Eyelash. We have to."

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We lived in a small apartment for about three years in Texas. By the time I was seven, my step dad was getting married to a woman that he wanted it to be a "surprise" when I met her at the wedding.

On May 7, the wedding was to occur. My dad drove me to the church where my mom was standing outside the church. My birth mom. I didn't know whether to be happy or sad, so I just put Bunny and Rei into my a little basket I had that was filled with flowers. (I was the flower girl.)

When I hopped out of the car, my mom hugged me. I didn't hug her back. "Rude!" she screamed and slapped my faced.

"Leave me alone," I said.

A little girl about the age of five came running up to me and whispered something in her mom's ear. Then she turned to me and hugged me. "Yui!"

"Who are you?"

"I'm Mishka! You're new sister!" Finally someone in my family has a good name.

"Yay!" We walked into the church together and it was actually much more pleasant than expected.

When the wedding was done, we went to my step daddy's apartment and got settled in. Mishka and I shared a bedroom together and everything was nice and happy.

Then my step dad and my mom got into drugs...

When I was 12, they got arrested for having some illegal hallucinogens. I didn't want to go into foster care and I'm sure Mishka didn't either, so I grabbed a stroller that Mishka had for her baby dolls and strapped her into it. I filled a little pink bag with clothes and some marshmallows. Then I used a rope to make a collar for Bunny and I gave Rei to Mishka to hold.

"Off to Nebraska!" I said.

"Why?" Mishka questioned.

"To go be with the most amazing person ever and my uncle that I've never met."

"Oh..." she said. I started pushing her down the street.

"Which way was it again...?"