Apdopted by the Hemmings

Austin's past

---Austin's POV---

    I never knew that my little sister did drugs. I was terrified. I walked into her room and saw her and her friends getting high. I know it might have seemed like I didn't care about my parents and them using drugs, but I did. I didn't want to leave them I couldn't bare it. I knew that drugs were bad and so I stayed away from them. I couldn't imagine my sister getting into them.

    My parents weren't around much. They we're usually at the bar or at a house of drunks and people that were as high as cloud nine. I took care of Jocelyn and myself. I had a total of 1 sleep over when I was younger. I didn't really have many freinds considering I always smelled of smoke and alcohol.

    I had 1 friend besides Jocelyn. Her name was Alice. She had the nearly the same situation with her family. Her Mom had died and her Dad abused her every night. She went home not knowing if she would even get dinner. Alice was my first real crush. We dated for 3 years. We were 12 when we started to date. We broke up right before I moved.

    When I was 15 my parents told me that we were going to an orphanage. Knowing them, I thought they were high and drunk and they were joking. They stopped doing drugs for a month and then we were taken away from them. That month, my dad committed suicide. During February of 2015 my mom hanged herself because she missed Jocelyn, dad, and me.

    I never knew that my mom had another baby. We were never told. It was a miscarriage. I had found out by the newspaper, her obituary. In her obituary it said that she had me and Jocelyn the baby too. And also dad killing himself. I still have it above my bed. The baby's name was Sammy. It was a girl. She died of heart and lung cancer. I knew mom had gotten back on drugs when I heard.