What would you do if you were told by someone that you had to leave your house?
What if that someone was someone you had been living with your whole life? Would you feel angry? Tormented?
I didn't feel anything at first. I just said that I didn't mind and that mum was good to tell me. But then the shock started to sink in after a few days. It was like when the wind makes the quiet side of a cliff by the sea break into the water abruptly, the rocks falling with a loud crash into the dark, black waves of the sea. I started to lock myself up in my room. Sometimes I just sat on the cold wooden floor boards and thought about the past. Sometimes I wailed hysterically about the future. I never thought about the present. It wasn't in my bleak mind anymore. I started to become aware that I would loose everything; no more coming home to see her, no more seeing the twins laugh. I just wanted to be one of them so that I didn't have to do this.
I knew exactly what was waiting for me...anger.
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Affliction
Teen FictionWhen Nausicaa Pickthorn is asked to leave her home,she knows what's coming next. Her family cannot afford to keep her,and at thirteen she is legally recommended to leave the house. Her parents must send her to an institution where all girls of her k...
