Scarlett's secret ~ (Finding A Home)

chapter 8

See when I was three she gave me more chores and my schedule ended up not being too bad I didn't look for it at being at home with my grandmother or her place cuz she made it clear that it wasn't my home when we left for school I stayed there and then when Thomas up we came back home the only time I was ever allowed outside my grandmother's house was coming or going to school or when I was allowed outside for PE during school. That was why I was so pale when I came to live with you was because I was never permitted to go outside.

When I was 4 years old was the first time my grandmother ever physically hit me she backed in me in the face and it was all over because I was talking back to her it was drilled into me that I was to be seen but not heard and the reason I was backhanded was because she had got to the point of being overly frustrated with me and I ended up trying to run away that was the first and last time that I had ever tried that. She ended upset me down and made me want the movie of Beethoven part 2 or they ended up giving that dog a shot and then put him in the furnace and had him burn she told me that was exactly what they do to shifters if they got out online. Especially for kids like me who were a half breed because the government Social Service System wouldn't allow me because I was a filthy breed in the human world wouldn't accept me and if it wasn't for some form of biological family member to take me this is what would happen to me. She told me that shifter Community would never accept me because I was a half breed because I had human genetics and they will see me as a filthy disgrace.

She ended up locking me in my room I don't know exactly what she did to the window at the time but I seen that it was forced closed I tried more than one thing to try to open it but I never could I think she had it nailed shut and then had it fixed where I couldn't tell but I never could get that window open she kept a lock on my bedroom door and the only way to open it was from the outside hallway when I misbehaved or when she wanted to go out somewhere or when I was being punished she would always tell me or put me in my room and shut and lock the door.

The daily routine was just like that at around 4 and 1/2 to 5 years old I go to school come back home I would have to do extra homework that she has set up on a laptop computer it was expected to me to keep my grades level up if I made any grades below a solid bee I would be punished in school and she will check my grades on the laptop which was like doing online school and if my grades drop below a bee then I would be punished she started me out on the laptop when I was 3 years old. The chores that I had to do was like dusting sweeping as I got older I had to do mopping folding laundry doing dishes washing counters scrubbing the floors polishing the furniture scrubbing the baseboards cleaning the baseboards she even made me use a toothbrush when I was five just grab the baseboards she made me clean the bathroom and a lot of times she would say that it wasn't good enough or I missed a spot and I had to do it all over again that was a leaning closet in the hallway where she kept towels and stuff she would throw them all out on the floor and make me fold them and put them up she said I wouldn't do them right and take them all down and make me redo them she would always grab me shake me and if I ever spoke a word or said a word out of my mouth she would back hand me in the face so I just got to the point where I just didn't speak I didn't want to lose my voice so at school around lunch time or when I was in the library I normally would just read a book softly out loud just so I didn't lose my voice.

The last time I had physically went to see an actual doctor for a checkup was when I was 4 years old I had to have a test done to be able to go into kindergarten. My grandmother set up this screen chat with a doctor that was on the television he asked questions and they answered it he would always end up checking me out by looking at me through a camera that my grandmother had said on her laptop I thought it was so weird. I wasn't a kid who was normally got sick a lot and the main thing of that was is when she would leave bruises on me from her hand friends or her slapping me or something like that and he would look at them and tell by the coloration if I needed anything like cream or something which I actually never did I always ended up healing back pretty easily a few times my grandmother hit me so hard that she either busted my nose or split my lip and she would always complain when she had to video call the doctor back he said that it should be fine and that it would help back.

The most thing that I got out of it is when I was past six and a half years old right before I came to live with you all with my grandmother being really sick because she had pneumonia and it was real late in the winter cuz it was around October and the weather was real cold and she was in and out of the hospital quite a lot she used to give me money to get food out of vending machines and I wouldn't buy the food I kept the money I ended up having enough saved up from her in and out of the hospital a lot that I was able to buy me a phone she ended up having one of her neighbors to watch me because she didn't trust me to be in her house alone when she got real bad sick and I made it to the hospital when I ended up sneaking out of the neighbor's house and going to a store and I bought me a phone of course I still have the phone it's just it don't work I only use it for Wi-Fi so I can access internet and I use it to keep my online business going. The laptop that I had was hers and that was one thing that I got to bring with me that's a thing is so old it don't really like to stay charged so that's why I use the cell phone that I have.