You Turned My World Upside Down

Chapter One

* A year earlier *

Three years ago, my Mother Lesley was diagnosed of intracranial neoplasm or brain tumor, it was malignant tumor. After a few weeks, my mom started Radiation Therapy to kill tumor cells while leaving normal brain tissue unharmed. In standard external beam radiation therapy, multiple treatments of standard-dose "fractions" of radiation are applied to the brain. The treatment went for a year and a half but then my mom finally gave up, the doctors said, her body won't accept anymore treatment thus, it is only a matter of time. My family was devasted especially my Dad Colton, me, and my brother Kiefer, our relatives started giving us sympathy and pity, which i hate, everytime they would do it, I would either burst into anger or I'll just walk away. We spent the next few months beside my Mom until she went.

It was in mid-July of 2012 when she passed away, the days of her burial was full of mourning for me, I never went to socialize to my relatives and just stayed at my room crying and crying. Until i've finally learned to let my Mom go which is very painful, frankly, i thought i was never going to live again. I felt lost, confused and to top it all, my brother Kiefer went to navy weeks after Mom's death and never came back, he only said that it was his way of mourning.

When Kiefer left, My Dad always drinks and smoke pot, i thought it wouldn't get any worse than that and my Dad will also learn to accept the fact that my mom would never be with us again. But, i spoke to soon, after a month of his daily drinking and smoking, one day I was headed home, thinking on how to stop my Dad from doing what he usually do. I opened the door and revealed my angry father, he was giving me the death glare and grabbed me by my hair and started accusing me of leaving him, he started cursing multiple words, when he finally realize that it was not his wife, he started beating me up, he would punch me in the stomach and face and then kick me in the back or on my thighs until he become tired.

Everyday, he would beat me and accuse me for God knows what. I tried my best to stand strong and go to school without thinking what would happen if i went home until it came to the point that I would sleep in my classmates house for days. That was it, until Thomas Fred came into my life. He was the most kind-hearted person, he was like my wall that is willing to stand and help every step of the way.

We grew as bestfriends and he decided to take me away from my father. He was very gentle, but then he decided that it was best for me if i learn how to protect myself. So, he enrolled me in Taekwondo and Martial Arts, at first it was difficult for me, but then i realize that this would help me to overcome my fears, to be a man that I needed to be because not everyone is willing or can protect you, in the end you only have yourself. No matter what the circumstance is, i have to be ready to face it. So from then on, I learned different kind of ways of self-defense, then after I finished the sessions, Thomas enrolled me in fitness class, to work on my abs and to firm my muscles.

Then i realize that i'm not the Kayla Sawyer they used to know instead, I'm the Khalil Nicholas now. Thomas' mother, Beth Fred did all the change in my school transcripts and changed my name from Kayla Sawyer to Khalil Nicholas.

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Whatcha think? Is it okay? Is it bad?