The Girl in the Hoodie

Broken Screens and Shattered Dreams

              (ring,ring,ring) "yawn's".Uh? Hello this is Samantha how may I help you? "Oh hi Samantha this is principal Allen". Oh hi Mr. Allen so um why are you calling? Um well i'm calling about your sister Gabie. Oh no, what did she do now? Well nothing mager it's just i'm worried about her grades. Yeah what about them? Mrs. Grinwill your sister's grades are all failing. Uh? What do you mean by all of her grades are failing?! Gabie's report card are all straight F's. Actually I just checked Gabie's grades and her grades are just fine! Mrs. Grinwill would you like me to mail you her current grades. Well if you could do that I would be very happy. Ok Mrs. Grinwill I will mail you your sister's grades when I get a chance. Thank you Mr. Allen talk to you later, bye.( Hangs phone up on wall) Oh mom, how do I do this i'm not even old enough to be a parent, i'm only 15!

 (Knock,knock,knock) Well I wonder who that could be? ( Opens door) Hey Gerald what do you want? Nothing just came over to say hi. Well um hi I guess, no really what do you want? Ok ok please don't get mad at me but remember a month ago you loaned me $300. Yeah what about it? Well you see I can't pay you back. Wait "WHAT"! Shit I knew you were gonna get mad. Well yeah i'm mad I mean I loaned you $300, I didn't give it to you for free! Samantha i'm sorry but I don't have a job to be able to pay you back. Well then why don't you go and get one! You know Gerald I have a house to pay and a little brat to feed and help, I need that $300 back! Yeah and I have a mother who is sick in her bed! Gerald at least your parents weren't murdered by your brother! (Slam's door shut)

 "Cries" 3:30......... Sissy! Gabie we need to have a talk. Uh, ok what do you wan't to talk about? Gabie Mr. Allen called this morning. He did? Yeah he said your grades are failing, is that true and don't lie to me. Um.....well they are a little low. Uh uh...... That's not what your principal told me? Ok fine yes i'm failing ok but it's not a big deal. "Not a big deal"! You could be held back! So doesn't that mean if I ask you to help me the work would be easier? Well yes it's just that I don't want you to go down the same path as I did ok. I think the path that you took was spectacular! No it wasn't, listen Gabie I had no choice when mom and dad, well you know died I was only 14 and wasn't even in high school yet! Yeah but that's great it mean's that you didn't have to go through high school drama. Oh Gabie, you don't get it do you? Get what? You know what let's just forget we had this talk ok promise. Ok I promise.

 (Throws computer down on floor) "Crack". Uh? What the hell was that! Gabie are you ok! Yeah but um I think your computer isn't. What do you mean by that. Well um..... ok I threw your computer on my bed but it didn't make it. GABIE I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!! Wait I can fix it! No you can't look at the screen it's busted! Great another thing I have to pay for in this household! Gabie your grounded for a month no t.v., no electronics, and no phone! Wait what you can't do that your not my mother! No i'm not but i'm the only adult in this house and the only family member you got so I have every right to ground you! You know what what's the point arguing with you, I mean you always win anyway! Your right Gabie we shouldn't argue were already going through so much. So your not mad at me for breaking your laptop? No i'm not mad im FURIOUS! I said I was sorry. Well Gabie i'm sorry I let you borrow my laptop,  then it wouldn't have gotten broken! Actually that's not true I mean who know's you could have broken it if you weren't taking care of it. You realize that you just admitted to not taking care of my laptop right? No I didn't what I said was if you didn't take care of it, it would have gotten broken. Yeah my point is you didn't take care of my computer and now you have to make up for it. No I don't. Wait hold on did I break my computer? No. Yeah, so your responsible for the damage! Fine i'm responsible for the damage, but I can't pay you, I have no money. Not a problem there's a job that you can apply for just across the street. There is? Yup and the pay is $15 an hour. Wow that's a lot of money especially for a nine year old! Yeah so you can pay me back with all of that money. Woah woah woah, hold on you mean I have to pay you the money that I earned and worked hard for! Yup so you better go right now and apply. No i'm not going to do it! Oh well then I guess you want to be stuck with me for the rest of your pitiful life. No no no I don't and for your information the only pitiful life is your's! No at least I am not failing school! Hey you dropped out of school before you could even get to high school! I'm not going to argue with you just please tell me your going to pay me back. Fine but it's going to take a long time though. I know but I don't care how long it takes as long as you pay me back. So we good?No we are not good until you pay me back.

 Fine I will pay you back in a month ok. How? I may have been doing some side jobs. Oh that's great what kind of side jobs? Selling stuff. Uh? What kind of stuff? Ok please promise you won't scream at me. What did you do? Please promise.........Uh fine I promise. Ok I thought that since you know mom and dad weren't here anymore that the house should be cleaned out, so I took some of their stuff out of there room and sold it to some people on the street for some cash I gave them pretty good deals. OH YOU LITTLE SHIT, THATS IT GET OUT NOW, I DON'T CARE WHERE YOU GO JUST GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAIT! Please Samantha don't do this not right now. No, how could you do this to me that was the only thing I had left from mom and dad and now it's gone forever! No I can get it back. No you can't once you sell something you can't get it back, believe me when I say this I sold something once and now it's gone forever! Just go to bed it's 9:00 anyway.(Closes door quietly) I just wish Gabie was more mature and able to do things on her own. Please mom and dad give me some advice here.