My Sanity is Hanging From A Thread

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Hope. Ironically that's my name. It's funny how the one thing I need right now is hope. My lifes a mess and my sanity is hanging from a thin thread.
My name is Hope Crystal Marie. My mother is Christina Marie and my father is Mateo Romano. However, I'll never take the name of that bastard. I have an older brother too, his name is Leonardo Romano.

My mother was a beautiful caring women who loved everyone with all her heart. She had a heart made of gold. She never faltered when it came to kindness. My mother died when I was only 14 and Leonardo was 18. The day my mother died, my once loving, father Mateo was never the same. I never saw him smile from that day on. He had lost his significant other, the love of his life. However, he was not the only one whole lost something, I lost my mother. As you can tell, we do not have a great relationship.


I'm 16 working a part time job because my pathetic father was far too drunk to realize there where other worries in life which didn't include whether the ice cooler was stocked up with alcohol. I'm also doing my SATS next year, that is if I'm alive.


Since the age of 14 I've been focused on survival. Surviving my father, school, being a teenager and of course my biggest enemy; puberty. My job was necessary as we are financially skint and have no way to embrace the luxuries these over-priced pieces of paper can provide.

I struggled to live. At times I would have no lunch for days. I would drink my water with out of date food. Even then, I was grateful for it. Sometimes, my one meal a day was the free pasta i'd have at school.
I had family who would visit every so many times, even after seeing my state and the conditions I lived in, no one had the guts to stand up to my father. No one cared. We were too far away from formalities. And that's pretty much all there is to me.


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*Authors note*
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**SIDE NOTE**

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