New Love

Vermillion

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30TH

I woke up once again at 3 a.m to a crying Nessa. Dang does that 11 month old baby know how to cry. I don't know how her sister, Valerie, never wakes up when she cries. Valerie sleeps with her mom because she's just two years old, a two year old who could sleep through a Chris Brown concert.

I got out of bed to get some water and at this point I knew I wasn't going to bed anytime soon. As I poured myself a glass of water, my sister, Delilah, decided to yell at the top of her lungs at me to make baby Vanessa some milk. " JUST SING HER TO SLEEP," I yelled back. "STOP YELLING AND JUST GET THE MILK," she yelled. It's wayyy too early to be arguing with her so I made the milk and gave it to her.
"Why are you up so early," she asked. "Because your daughter cries Bloody Mary every early morning," I answered back and she pushed back as if I slapped her. " Don't call my daughter Bloody Mary just because your a moody teen who has nothing better to do than open her legs to all." She thought that'd it hurt me but little does she know I had thick skin from my mother's bullying.
"At least I know how to not get pregnant at 16 then again at 17."
That shut her up so I left.

               I went into my room and looked out the window. I saw all the houses and listened to the quiet streets. I hate it here with a passion. It's nothing like the busy streets of Chicago. We used to live in an apartment with our mom and she wasn't exactly the desired mom like your mom or your friend's mom. She was either drunk or at work. Which I don't know how she kept with her attitude. She lacked conviviality when she was sober and when she was drunk she was goofy until you asked if that's her fifth beer. Then she'd get offended and start yelling at us and hit my sister and I. She even went to church and I know no one can judge so let's just say she was a very eccentric woman.

               We finally moved to Ballicio when she did the most unthinkable. Okay it wasn't the most unthinkable because it was bound to happen and it infuriated my sister enough to just leave the house with two bags for herself and her kids.

               One Tuesday night after my sister and I came home from work, we came home to find that my mom had hit Valerie so badly that she was knocked out. Delilah started yelling at the top of her lungs at mom. She was going to kill her, meanwhile I was trying to wake Valerie up. I knew we needed to get her to the hospital right away but we didn't have the money either. We went anyways with our necessities packed up in our bags, we haven't been home since.

                 I saw that my neighbor was up too because there was a low light coming from behind his or her ( I never got to meet them)  curtain. Then their window slowly opened and he came out. The same guy who bumped into me the other day. I didn't realize what he was doing until I saw the cloud of smoke leave his lips. Then we made eye contact and I ducked down. I have a problem with  making eye contact with strangers. It makes me feel weird and I always look away. I took this moment as a chance to go back to bed with a fast beating heart. I checked the clock to see that it was 3:45 and someway that made me so tired.

                What's wrong with guys here? They are so ew. I was walking to my fourth period and this dude named Trent decided to slap my ass. So I slapped him in the face, which is why I'm not in fourth period and I'm in the vice-principal's office.

             "Ms. Palmer I do understand that you are a new student here and you're still adjusting. But we have no tolerance policy and since you're new you'll get off with a warning," said Mrs. Laurent.

             I just looked at her, nodded, and asked if I could leave because I had nothing to say about that. When I got into the halls, I checked my watch and it showed that it was 11:15 which meant that 4th period was almost over so I began to walk the halls to explore my new school. There were 4 floors for about 2500 students and if you weren't in a sport then you won't really get any attention here.