Cries of an infant child are heard across the hospital room.
"What would you like to name her?" The nurse ask the woman who just went threw 12 hours of labor .
"Carmen Rose Rein " and after all is heard is a long beep signaling she had stopped breathing
———————- 17 years later ———————-
CARTER POV .
"CARMEN GETCHO BLACK ASS DOWN THESE DAMN STAIRS AND CLEAN THIS KITCHEN !!" My adoptive mother Sara screams at me from her bedroom downstairs . My real mother passed away during my birth so I never even met her . I don't even know anything about her except her name which was Alyssa . I've been in 6 foster homes throughout my lifetime, each one worse the the last . My social worker is racist so she just loves to put me in terrible homes . In just 8 more months I'm leaving . I would have gotten the thing where I apply to leave at 16 but Sara told me if I did she would plant things around my room and call the police and I believe her because that's what happened to the other girl that lived here with us.
I walk down the carpeted stairs looking down at the mess that Sara and her druggie friends left me in the kitchen . There was broken beer bottles , cigarette buds , left over joints and needles . I slowly snuck a blunt into my sweatshirt pocket and got to cleaning . I made sure to clean till my fingers were prunes and I could see myself in the marble floors. I pull my phone out to see what the time is and realize it's 1:00 AM . I walk back upstairs into the bathroom connected with my room and wash my face and do my nightly routine . After finishing up with that I drag myself into bed and let sleep take over my body .
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Just the Beginning
Teen FictionCarmen has had a rough life growing up starting from her birth where her mother passed while having her . Her father was no where to be found . Carmen has been in multiple terrible foster homes . Now that she's a new school it's Just the Beginni...
