💖 Life was spiralling, until she made a stand! 💖

🔥 Prologue: My life before the change 🔥

💖 Hello and thank you for having a look at my very first novel, I hope you enjoy this, Comment and Vote please, any feedback is welcome...

I have been wanting to write this novel for years, but kept getting writer's block when I kept trying to write this.

So I hope you will give it a chance.

Enjoy, happy reading  💖

Copyrighted © Jamie Leigh Hurst 2017

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Prologue: My life before the change.

My life has shaped my personality the way it is. My upbringing was terrible and I have a very dysfunctional family, who only look after themselves. I have have been struggling for years, I'm the black sheep of the family and in the family members eyes they just see the faults of me, and never seen any potential, even if I know its there, when they tell me its not, I still believe them that what they're saying is the gospel truth. I was being bullied at school, so you'd think I would have a place of respite at home. But no I don't, when my mum introduced her boyfriend Ryan, I got a bad gut feeling which I kept quiet about. For years from when I was 9, I was being verbally and mentally abused by Ryan, who was an alcoholic, which we hadn't found out until he had been living with us for over a year, which you can say love is blind. There was one night he was so drunk that he seemed to forget which room was his bedroom in his boxers, and came in and got into my bed. Luckily I was awake enough and realised and ran to my mum's room and stayed with her. I feel sad and alone, for no one who cares for me, I didn't want to tell any teachers at school, because I loved my Mum even though she never stuck up for me, or didn't get him to apologise. I didn't want to go into care. So it carried on for 10 years. It has made me a shy, caring and strong person, I would never hurt a person the way I've been hurt. I have met some wonderful people who are like family to me and mean the world to me, I do have an older brother Al who has no idea what I have gone through, I couldn't tell him because I know he would do something and I wouldn't want him to get in Any trouble, he has been working away for years as he is in the Army.

So that has been my life so far. I don't believe miracles can happen, my name is Leigh Rose, I'm 22, I live in Manchester, England and work for a company, I have worked here for 3 years. I still live with My Mum and Ryan, it still happens but I don't let it get to me anymore. Till this morning when I finally had enough. My Mum asked me " why don't you give Ryan any respect?" I couldn't believe she asked me that, I flip, I have never been so angry in my life, I was always scared before, I'm shocked and I open my mouth to shout but nothing comes out, I close my mouth again. I slap my Mum so hard on her cheek that it leaves her skin turning slightly pink from the impact. She looks shock, with tears starting to show in her eyes, and just says "When you get back from work, your to get your things and leave, I want you out, your brother is coming to live here in your room, so there won't be any room for you!" I just look at her angrily, sigh. I just reply "fine!" I just think to myself "I don't care what happens.

Today it will all change for the better, no going back. I leave for work and my story the new beginnings of my life have begun.