"YOU CAN'T JUST SHIP ME OFF LIKE THIS!!! IT AIN'T FAIR!!!" I hollered at my mama. Tears were pouring down my cheeks and crashing like glass onto the hardwood floor as I stood, staring at my mama.
"Life isn't fair, Adalyn, dammit, don't you know that?! You think it was fair when I got pregnant at 16?! You think it's fair that your daddy walked out on us when you were 4 years old?! YOU THINK IT'S FAIR I WORK ALL THE DAMN TIME, JUST TO BARELY SCRAPE BY?! I CAN'T TAKE IT NO MORE!!!" she hollered back.
I stood there, struck dumb. We never brought up Daddy. It hurt too much. She looked so tired. So drained. I tried my best to help her out, but she never seemed to want me around, which is why, I assumed, she always looked so gosh darn tired.
"I know someone for ya, Addy. He ain't much older than you, but he's a good man. He can take care of ya. You'll be somewhere safe." she said quietly.
I collapsed on the floor in a puddle of tears. "It ain't fair, Mama. It ain't fair." I bawled. She sat there, staring at me bawl like a baby on the kitchen floor. This was it. She was sending me off to live with a strange man in a strange neighborhood in a strange part of town. And I would never hear from her again.
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I'm Yours ~Two-Bit (Keith) Mathews ff~
DiversosUnwanted, abandoned, heartbroken, afraid. Adalyn Thomas is 17 years old, living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the late 1960's. One night her mother tells her she doesn't want her in the house anymore. She tells her she's sending her away. Somewhere safe...
