Love and War

~Love and War~

~1939 Munich, Germany~

Frankie's P.O.V

Im 16 years old, I live with just my mother Elizabeth, I come from a very poor family, I wear the same checkered, ripped and smelly dress everyday with a small thin cardigan, my skin color is olive brown, my hair is dirty blonde waist length, I have brown eyes and my body isn't what a 16 year old teen girls body should look like. I'm very skinny, about 5'9, I have buds and my butt is flat. Its like I have no butt at all but I do its just its so flat and it bothers me. All the girls in my neighbour hood have enough money to support themselves and their family, aren't really skinny like me, all have nice clothes and shoes, their hair is nice and clean everyday and always tied up nicely or is hanging down perfectly, they are all healthy looking and well and most of all, they ALL have friends.

My mother and I live in a small one bedroom and one bathroom wooden shed in a small village called Vaterstetten. Muncih is the closest big town to Vaterstetten and that is where I go to school. My mum makes clothes for people and also does their laundry. She doesnt earn enough for us both to live but everyweek she buys 2 small pieces of bread because that is all that we can afford. She gives me her share of bread but I don't accept it because my mother also needs to eat. I sleep on the floor with a hard pillow that my mother found in the street and a thin blanket. My mother usually sleeps by my side but most nights she isn't home. She is out forriging for other things we could have like blankets, clothes, shoes etc. I love my mother alot and I am grateful for everything she does for me. Life at home is pretty hard but school is just an absolute nightmare.

School life is hard for me. No one likes me and I have no friends. I honeslty have no idea why I don't have friends. I know that my clothes smell bad, and I am shy but once you get to know me I am really nice, kind and helpful. Its just that no one bothers to come up to me and say hello. I try to say hi to different people everyday and tyry to make conversation but they just look at me, say 'as if' or 'go away you dirty schwein' (schwein in german is pig) and just mean horrible things like that. I sit by myself at lunch and everyone says 'where did you get your lunch from today eh? The rubbish bin?!' 'Oh wait you are too poor to eat food haha!' it makes me really upset but I try to hold in the tears. But this all changed a week later...

A/N: Oooo whats gonna happen? Hope you guys have enjoyed the first chapter. Please comment and vote on all my read especially the ones you have read and enjoyed. Thanks for all the reads, votes and comments. Keep them coming thanks!!

Alyssa :)