A Rough Life

CHAPTER 1

BLEACKANN WAS A QUIET CHILD. OFTEN FOUND ON HER GRANDFATHERS LAP. HE WAS AN Italian WAR SURVIVER THEY SAID. THE MILITARY CAME OFTEN AND CHECKED ON HIM. OFTEN WHISPERING TO BLEACKANN THAT THEY WERE CRAZY. ONE NIGHT SHE WAS AROUND 3 THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ALONE THEY Weren't, THERE IN THE CORNER OF HER ROOM, THE LIVING ROOM, AND THE KITCHEN WERE MEN. BIG MEN M.EANT TO KEEP YOU IN. THEY WANTED TO UNDERSTAND YOUR GRANDFATHER BUT THERE WAS NOTHING YOU COULD TELL. THEY WATCHED YOUR EVERY MOVE. SUDDENLY GRANDFATHER YELLS SO YOU WANT FISTS TO CUFFS AND THE ROOM BECAME LOUD, THERE WERE SCREAMS THERE IN THE CORNER WAS TWO CHILDREN. BLEACKANN AND A YOUNG MAN.
LIFE INSTANTLY CHANGES FOR BLEACKANN. ALONE IN A NEW HOME KNOWING NOBODY SHE FINDS IT HARD TO SPEAK. STUTTERING AND TRYING TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE SHE FINDS IT HARD TO GET HER NEEDS. THE MORE SHE CRIES THE HARDER IT IS TO FIND THE WORDS, SOMETIMES SHE FINDS THE COURAGE TO TRY BUT IT COMES OUT IN SCREAMS OR Squeaks THERE SEEMS TO BE NO INBETWEEN. HER ONLY FRIEND IS GONE, HER GRANDFATHER INSANE THEY SAY. HER MOTHER IS DEAD AND SHE HAS NO IDEA WHO HER FATHER IS. THE NEW FAMILY SAYS THEY KNOW AND IF SHE'S GOOD SHE WILL GET TO MEET HIM.
SHE TRIES TO LISTEN AND DRESS RIGHT, GET GOOD GRADES AND PLAY SPORTS. SOMEHOW SHES NEVER GOOD ENOUGH. HER MOMS KEEP CHANGING AND THEY DO MEAN THINGS TO HER. FORGET TO FEED HER AND LEAVE HER PLACES. EVENTUALLY SHE GETS SIBLINGS. OLDER THAN HER A SISTER AND A BROTHER DIFFERENT FATHERS DIFFERENT MOTHERS. THEY SEEMED HAPPIER. THEY GOT FOOD AND CLOTHES AND TOYS. SHE Wasn't ALLOWED TO. THEY SAID ITS BECAUSE HER FATHER WAS A BAD MAN.  THEY WONT TELL HER WHAT HE DID. THE KIDS CALLED HER NAMES AND CHASED HER AROUND. EVERYONE SAID THEY WERE PLAYING BUT SHE GOT IN TROUBLE IF SHE PLAYED THE SAME. THE RULES WERE CLEAR.SIT STAY TAKE IT AND JUST BE OK. Don't SPEAK THEN YOU GET THE Medicine. AT THIS POINT SHE WAS 5 THE CHURCHES Didn't WANT HER, THE SCHOOLS COULD ONLY KEEP HER SO LONG SHE GOT A NEW DAD. AT FIRST THE NIGHTS WERE CALM AND THINGS SEEMED TO GET BETTER FOR HER. DURING THE DAY THE KIDS LEFT HER BE NO MORE NAME CALLING AND NO MORE STEALING HER THINGS. THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS A GROWN MAN BESIDE HER ALL THE TIME. IN HER CLASSES, IN HER HOME, IN HER SHOWER ROOM AND SPORTS TOO. THEY FOLLOWED TO HER FRIENDS AND GAVE HER THERE KIDS INSTEAD. THEY PROMISED TO BE NICE AND ASSURED HER SHE WAS SAFE.
AND ONE NIGHT THERE WAS A SCREAM FROM HER THIS TIME AND THE PEOPLE CAME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND TOOK HER AWAY. THIS TIME SHED STAY AWAY THEY SAID.THE NIGHT WAS LONG AND THE NEXT DAY THE RULER SAID GO HOME. NOW IT WAS DIFFERENT AGAIN AND NOBODY HELPED HER OR SPOKE TO HER AGAIN. THEY WEREN'T NICE ANYMORE. NOW THEY JUST Reminded HER. TO LOUD, TO QUIT NOT NICE TO NICE. WHY DO YOU DO THAT OVER AND OVER. SHE WAS ALWAYS IN THE WRONG AGAIN, ALWAYS IN THE WAY SOME HOW.
THE DUNGON KEEPER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MEAN. HE Didn't SEEM SO SCARY TO HER. HE JUST SAT THERE WATCHING AS THE SCARY MEN TOLD HER THINGS. WHAT THEY DID TO BE HIS FRIEND. THEY LIKED LIVING WITH HIM. HE BROUGHT THEM THINGS THEY SAID. SHE ASKED WHAT THEY GOT ONE DAY, AND ONE TOLD HER IT WAS HER. HE GOT TO KNOW HER BECAUSE THE DUNGON KEEPER SAID. BLEACKANN DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A GIFT WAS BUT SHE WAS A PERSON SHE COULDN'T BE A GIFT. THE DUNGON KEEPER FOUND THIS FUNNY AND THEN SHE BEGAN TO BE TAUGHT THINGS. READING, WRITING, SPYING, Listening AND HOW TO COMMUNICATE IN CODES. THEY TOLD HER TO WATCH THEM FIGHT AND THEN WOULD DEMAND SHE DANCED.BLEAKANN DIDN'T KNOW IT BUT SHE HAD JUST BEGAN Lessons ON HOW TO BE A WARRIOR QUEEN IN A MANS GAME