Adopted by Lin Manuel Miranda

Chapter 14- My New Hell

       I just finished packing up all of my stuff up and I was ready to leave for the airport. Another wave of sadness rushed over me. This whole situation still seems insane. I can't believe I finally found a home I was truly happy in and now I'm getting ripped out of it. This is my life I guess. I am never allowed to be truly happy.

      I grabbed my suitcase and walked out of my old room. Lin and Vanessa were waiting in the living room with Sebastian. We were all waiting for my social worker to pick me up and take me to the airport. When I saw them sitting on the couches I couldn't help but to start balling. I didn't want to leave and I couldn't believe they could just take me out of a home that I'm happy in just to put me with "family". My question is how do they know this aunt isn't crazy? Have they even ever seen her? I quickly pushed those thoughts aside and I dropped my bags down and went over to give Lin, Vanessa, and Sebastian all big hugs. Even while I was giving out hugs I was crying. I just couldn't seem to stop. Lin and Vanessa enveloped me in a hug and soothingly rubbed my back, trying to calm me down.

   We all heard a knock on the door and Lin grudgingly went and opened the door. I saw my social worker standing there with a big smile, ready to take me to my new life. She came in and helped me with my bags because I did have a decent sized pile of stuff. I went over and grabbed the last of my bags and followed my social worker. Before I left I looked back at Lin and Vanessa and I noticed they were both crying too. I felt so bad, I had never seen them cry and I never want to see it again.

       "I love you guys so much. I will never ever forget you or what you have done for me. I will miss you so much everyday and I wish I didn't have to leave you. You guys have become my home. You made me feel safe and loved, which I hadn't felt in forever, and I will never be able to repay you," I cried.

      "We love you too. And you don't have to repay us. We wanted to be your parents, we still do, and that's just what parents do," they both said sadly.

     With all of that said I turned around and left go to the airport and start me new life.

                   *time skip of one month*

     Remember when I said my aunt could be crazy or something. Turns out I wasn't far off. I found out I didn't meet this aunt because she was in prison when I was a baby so she couldn't meet me. She's a drunk and she does some pretty hard drugs. Honestly did they even check this lady out at all! Because if they did they would have seen she was definitely not suitable to raise a child. When she is drunk or high, which is often, she tends to be very violent. She's hit me, kicked me, verbally abused me, and pretty much anything else you could imagine. Also she rarely keeps food around because she goes out to eats, so often I don't eat at all in a day. I wish the stupid social worker people could have never heard about this crazy aunt and I would be happy  back in New York.

     She hasn't even put me in school. I just stay home all day in a house that smells horribly of smoke and is so dirty everything, but my room, looks like it's brown, even if it wasn't originally brown. Trash is scattered around the house and she never bothers to clean it up. The only place in the house is my room.

       Since I have been here all I wanted to do was get out and at least see Italy but she wouldn't let me leave the house. Little does she know when she leave the house for hours at a time I usually go out and go around the town. Today was no different than any other, my aunt went out to go get drunk, or high, or go prostitute (yes that's how we get most of our money), and while she was away I snuck out to go see the town. The town we live in really is beautiful, it's kind of small but we had beautiful mountains near us and there were some farms arounds as well. I hadn't eaten at all yesterday so I snuck some money and went to a little cafe to get some food. When I finally got the food I had it down in about 4 minutes.

     I went exploring through the town a bit more, checking out little shops along the way, then I decided it was probably time to head home. Never had I been caught in the month I have been doing this but today that all changed. When I got home I noticed there were lights on inside and my aunts little car was in our driveway. I figured there was no use in trying to sneak in so I just walked through the front door. Of course as soon as I entered I heard my aunts voice yelling at me.

    "Where the hell have you been! I leave for one hour and you leave! I told you many time you aren't allowed to leave. Now you must be punished," She shrieked.

    She walked over to me, looming over me as she was much taller than me. I was just 5'5 and she was 5'10. She also had about 20 pounds on me. Of course she used that advantage over me as she beat me. She hit me harder than she ever had, she didn't seem to hold back. I tried to curl up to protect myself but with me being very underweight she caused a lot of damage. Not to mention I bruise easily. Once she was done with my punishment I slowly picked myself up off the floor and quickly tried to make my way to my room. This was hard because it was hard to move, it felt like she had broken some bones or something. I laid my frail body on my bed and quickly grabbed my phone.

     I only kept in touch with one person from America and that was Liz. Her and I texted everyday but of course I didn't tell her what was happening to me, I didn't want her to worry. I looked at my phone and decided to call a person I knew I could trust but I hadn't talked to in what seemed like an eternity. They would be able to help me, I thought to myself. I dialed their phone number and waited for them to answer.

     "Hello?"

     "Lin?"

      "Yes it is he."

      "It's Anne and I really need your help."

Hello! Well what do you think? This chapter gave me feels while I was writing it tbh! But yea what do you think will happen? Also thank you for 1k reads!! And LIN'S HAIR??? What are y'all opinions on the hair? Anywho bye! XOXO