My name is Shawn and I live in this place we call America. I'm in high school and I have been awake for quite a while. I look around everyday and see the same thing because everyone else is asleep. I guess it takes a lot to wake up because I know I've been through quite a bit.
I have been from homeless to rich and I'm only 15 years old. My father left me when I was three and a half months old and I have barely had contact with him since; I have been trying to reach out to him as of late but it has been very hard. As a single mother my mom went through a lot with trying to support herself and I, she dropped out of high school her soft more year so she never got her diploma.
She couldn't get a job and it was hard for us, until we found the one I call Dad. His name is James, my mom and him fell in love and he was middle class so he let us live with him. He had a son named Austin and we always had fun together. We always had dinner together as a family and it felt good...until it happened. James and my mom started to get into many arguments and it led to them breaking up. My mom took me with her and since my mom couldn't get a Job we were couch surfing most of the time. James had an accident at work during that time and sued a big company to become a millionaire. James and my mother worked things out and got together again but problems started once more. After the second break-up my mom got together with another man and had a daughter with him. Things were going good because he had a job and life was pretty well...until he started drinking and doing drugs. My sister was born and he grew progressively abusive. We made the decision one day to leave him and thankfully James took us in; him and my mom still had problems so what my mom did was give him secondary custody of my sister and I so that we could have a good life. I'm currently with James right now and besides the occasional argument hints are going well.
