To Build A Home

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I woke up and got dress. I put on the same clothes I was wearing when I got here. The security guy took me outside where Mr. Swan was waiting for me. Mr. Swan is the social worker assigned to my case.

I'm a foster kid. When I was 7 years old my mother left my father, my little brother and me. A year later my father died. I have been in the system ever since.

I was coming out of Juvie because I hit the son of my last foster family.
"Delilah, I thought I told you to stay out of trouble." Said Mr. Sawn.
"Sorry." I said. I wasn't going to tell him why I did what I did. He wasn't going to believe me. No one ever does.
"You're sure you can take her?" he asked a women standing in the parking lot.
"Yeah, no problem." She answered. "I still have room for one more." She looked at me and smiled. She was really pretty. She kind of reminded me of Katie Holmes.
"Delilah, you're going with Mrs. Parker. Clarissa Parker. She's going to be your new foster mom."
I follow her to her car, she was driving a red suv. We made our way to her house. The house didn't look that big from the outside, it looked like any normal house.
She went straight to the kitchen, which was to the right side of the entrance. I followed her. She started taking out food from the fridge and I sat down at the island.
"You been in this for some time now so I don't think I have to repeat the same rules you've been hearing. My curfew it's at 10pm. All my kids have to be home by 10. I don't care at what time you go to bed as long as you're up by the time you have to be in the morning."
She started heating food on the stove and took some plates out from the cupboard.
"The kids will be home from school any minute. There's an extra bed in Hayley's room and you'll go to school starting tomorrow."

Like fifteen minutes later a guy around my age, a younger girl and a kid enter the kitchen. They all sat down around the island too.
"Hey, how was school?" ask Mrs. Parker.
"Same as always." said the guy around my age. She started putting dishes filled with food in the middle of the island.
"Guys this is Delilah. Delilah this is Archie," she said pointing to the guy that is around my age, "this is Hayley," she said pointing to the girl a year or two younger than me, "and this is Jaden." She said ruffling his hair.
We started serving different types of food into our plates and we started to eat.
"So how old are you?" asked Archie.
"I'm sixteen." I told him.
"I'm sixteen too, Hayley is fourteen and Jaden is nine." He said.
"What happened to your face?" asked Hayley. They all turned to look at me waiting for a response. 
"I fell." I told them. Everyone just started at me not believing what I just told them. I had a busted lip and a bruise under my right eye. Those were only the bruises visible to the eye. My legs, arms and abdomen were covered in bruises.

After we were finished eating I followed Hayley to her room. The room wasn't that big but it fitted two twin size beds at each end. It was better that what I used to sleep in.

"I sleep in this one, you can sleep in that one." Said Hayley.

She sat on her bed and took out a couple of books from her backpack. I just sat down in the bed.

"Delilah?" ask Mrs. Parker knocking even though the door was open.

"Here are some clothes for you to sleep in. You'll start school tomorrow." She said. I went to the restroom and took a shower than changed into the clothes Mrs. Parker had given me. She took the clothes I had been wearing to washed them so that I could wear them tomorrow.

Around 9pm Hayley went to change into her pajamas and then laid down on her bed. I laid down on the bed too but I couldn't fall asleep. I turn to my side and started drawing things on the wall with my finger.