Hey y'all, my name is Kristen Marie Mills an I'm 16 years old. I live in Macon, Ga with my aunt, uncle and four cousins. It sucks badly but I'm getting use to it. My mother is on drugs in San Francisco, and my father lives in Nashville, TN with his wife an their kids. I guess they both don't want anything to do with me because they left me at a police station when I was only 3. Every since then I've been in an out of foster homes an living with different family members. Soon as I turn 18 I'm moving far away from here, I never want to see any of these people again. "KRISTEN!" I heard my aunt yelling so I went into the kitchen where she was. "yes?" "there you are, I want you to clean this house top to bottom." "ok." I know asking her why I would have to do it would result in me getting hit or beaten. "and since you've been ok lately I guess you can start school next week." "really!!" I was so happy. Just to get out of this house an make friends. "calm down before I change my mind." my aunt Clair is awful, she gets drunk and hits me all the time. She just hates me for some reason. "ok." I smiled an started washing the dishes. "I'm gonna have friends!" I thought. I use to have a lot of friends when I lived in San Francisco with my foster mom, then my aunt took me away. Now I'm like her slave. "I can't wait!" I giggled. I finished cleaning the house an went to lay down. "KRISTEN!" my aunt yelled. I got up an went downstairs. "yes." I answered. "I TOLD YOU TO CLEAN UP." "I did." "SO WHY ARE THERE DISHES HERE?!" "I cleaned them I swear." before I knew it she hit me in the face. "GO TO YOUR ROOM!" I got up an ran to my room an closed the door. My nose started to bleed and I started to cry. "why does she keep doing this to me? Her kids don't do anything an she doesn't hurt them!" I cried. I climbed out on the roof an sat there till I fell asleep. When I woke up I climbed back through the window an got in the bed. The next morning I woke up an went to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror, my lips an nose were swollen. "look at me, nobody is gonna wanna be my friend." a few tears slipped from my eyes as I brushed my teeth. "I hate these people so much I just want to die." I washed my face an cleaned the blood off. I looked at myself an exhaled. "kristen." I ran my fingers through my brown hair one last time then walked out the bathroom. I went to the kitchen to start cooking breakfast but my aunt already started. "Kristen sit down an eat." She said. I sat at the table an she gave me a plate. "James put the dishes in the sink." James is her husband. "oh ok, I'll clean them." "don't worry about it I already did." "oh." "I know you like steak an eggs so that's what I made." "thank you." "you should put ice on your mouth it'll go down." "ok I will." this was her way of saying sorry I guess. Every time she hits me then find out I didn't do anything she does things like this.
It was finally Sunday and I was happy because I start school the next day. I was sitting on the couch with a huge smile. "what are you smiling about dummy?!" my older cousin Peter asked. "nothing." I put my head down an kept smiling. "she's happy cause she starts school tomorrow." aunt Clair chimed in. "oh. You're not gonna make any friends. You're to stupid an ugly." that hurt but I ignored him. "you're stupid." he punched me an I fell on the floor. I got up an ran to my room. "if the kids are like him I don't want to go to school." I sat on the edge of my bed an cried. A few minutes later my aunt walked in. "what are you crying about?" "nothing." I wiped my eyes an stood up. She had a bag in her hand. "this is your stuff." she walked over an dumped it on the bed. It was school supplies. "really?!" I was so happy. "it's only some notebooks an pens. What are you so happy about?" "is it all mine?" I asked. "yes I'm not starting school tomorrow." "thank you!" I smiled an looked through all the stuff. "it's just notebooks and paper." I looked up at my aunt. "not to me, you took time out to buy this stuff for me an that means a lot." I looked back at the notebooks then out of no where my aunt slapped me. "does it mean a lot now!?" she yelled an walked out of the room. I left the stuff on the bed an climbed out the window an sat on the roof. I looked up at the sky an down at the ground. There were so many times I thought about jumping off this roof. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I watched my aunts car drive away from the house an I knew she was probably gonna go get drunk. "I just want to get far away from here.." I whispered. I sat out there for hours thinking about running away, back to San Francisco. I seen my aunts car coming back so I went in an took a shower. When I finished I dried off an put my night clothes on. It was just some ripped up sweat pants and a old t shirt I had. I went an got in the bed an closed my eyes. "Kristen." My aunt walked in the room. "yes?" I sat up an looked at her, surprisingly she wasn't drunk. "look I got you some new clothes an this." she threw the cell phone at me. I was so happy I finally had my own phone. My cousins had their own but they would never let me hold them. "thank you!" I was trying to control myself. "Here are the clothes." she gave them to me an walked out. I looked at the clothes an plugged up the phone. "yes! Tomorrow will be great." I whispered. I got in the bed an went to sleep.
