Broken

Chapter 5: Help

Angel's POV:

I woke up to my alarm ringing. I turned over to turn it off. I sat up and looked around. There was a certain smell in the air. Is that weed? You know it is. I rolled my eyes. I got up and took my bath. Just once, I would like to wake up to a home cook breakfast, a mother to say "Good morning, did you rest easy?" And not a messed up house with an alcoholic & drug addict mother. Watch it May. I'm just saying. By the way, when are we moving? When I make enough money to move.

I already have the perfect house to move into. I just need $4500 to finally move in. Meaning we have and extra few years of hell to make it happen. Yeah. I got out and got dressed. I walked over to Tasha's room. She's already dressed. She was sitting on her bed, toying with her bracelet. The bracelet dad got her for her 6th birthday.

"Hey Tasha. What's wrong?" I asked her. She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. She lifted up her shirt and pointed to her side. She has a big blue bruise on it. "Tasha, did mama do that?" I asked her. She nodded her head. "Last night. I wanted water and she saw me up. And... And she hit me." She said. She broke down crying. She hugged me. I shook my head. That's it. We're leaving today. Where are we gonna go? Anywhere but here. I looked in the corner of her room. I noticed she had her bags packed.

"Tasha did you already pack your bags last night?" I asked. She nodded. "I was going to run away, but I wanted you to come with me." She said. I smiled. "That's my little sister." I said. I made her grab her bags and took them to the car. I packed mines, everything I had, and took it to the car. On the way out, I looked at my mama. She was with some guys, smoking and laughing. One of them looked at me and smiled. I turned away and walked out.

"Okay, Tasha. We're leaving today. I saved up but I still need more money in order to get the place we want. But right now, we need to get away from that house. So we're gonna go somewhere else to live until we get our house." I explained, as I drove her to school. "Okay, but where are we going?" She asked. I thought about it. "We're going to Mr. & Mrs. Graves house to stay in. I'm gonna ask them if we can live there, just until we get our new house. You go to school and I'll take care of the rest." I said. She said okay and ran out the car into the school.