Broken Souls

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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Payton Marie Walters. I am currently 17 years old. It is July right now. July 31 to be exact. Which means school starts in exactly 23 days. And thankfully my last year of high school. Let me tell you how high school goes. You come in as a freshman. Everything is brand new. You're the baby of the school. But when you're the "nerd" of the school, it's bad. Things are thrown at you and the upper class men beat you. They make you feel terrible about everything. Yet, I still get straight A's. When sophomore year comes, nothing changes. You just aren't the baby anymore. You're the kid. The kid no one likes. The kid who has no friends. The kid who doesn't get invited anywhere. The kid who even gets ignored by teachers. Junior year, you're finally an upperclassmen. You're the preteen basically. The one who is almost a teen but not quite. You're still looked down upon. Even from freshman. Which is sad. Being bullied isn't fun. I've been bullied ever since my dad left when I was 10. 7 years this has gone on. Self loathing. I mean everyone else loathes me so what makes this any different. The only thing I'm looking forward to, is leaving this hell hole next year.

My mother, she's a sweet person. Ever since my father left, she's been like my angel. She's my best friend. She understands me. She knows I'm bullied. But I don't mind. I love my mom. She's a sweetheart. She even listens to my music with me. She's taken me to a couple concerts. The ones that we can afford at least. I try to win contests so she doesn't have to pay. I never win. I don't have a job so I can't help out. She works 3 jobs. But I give her props. She works a different job on different days. Sometimes she'll overlap and have one in the morning and one at night. Those days I feel lonely. I don't have my best friend with me. But I know she's doing this for us. For me.

I dream of the day that someone comes into our lives and helps us out. Helps us get a better house, helps us with our terrible money issue. I'm lucky I'm even able to go to school. The day someone comes into our lives and makes my mother happy. Makes me happy. That's all I ask for. Just someone.