Your thoughts for a penny

Prolouge

My name is Penny. Penny DeLane. I spent most of my life day dreaming. Day dreaming of things that would never happen, at least not to me. My mama was a single mother and also an addict, any drug she could get her hands on. I never knew the real her, the sober her. Fortunately, my big brother Maliki was able to. Maliki was mostly the reason she went to drugs, though it wasn't his fault. He was the breadwinner of the house for a long time. Though he couldn't get a real job, he began selling drugs. He lived in the streets, but he payed the bills and got the food. At the age of fifteen he realized our mama was dependent of his income. So he left and began taking care of himself. I had to take care of my little sister Liza. So I met a man, my so called "boyfriend". He was bluntly to old for me, but if I gave him what he wanted he'd do the same for me. And all I wanted was Liza to be taken care of. Poems were my only escape, but how far would they actually take me? It was my senior year of high school, but I feared I would be in this run down trailer park my whole life.