Ann's diary. (Life of a home less girl)

A day in this life

It was a cold 🥶 night. Man I hate these nights. Why can't it be warm? Me, Mal and Flower 🌸 were in our tent huddled up with each other to stay warm. Since Mal was the youngest we put her in the middle. This was how we slept.
Once we all woke up Flower told us to stay in the tent while she went to get breakfast.
Basically our day went with waking up, Flower leavening to the store to get breakfast, then she came back and ate and left for work, she would work from 12 to a awhile before the sunset. But she got a break and would come checking us. Maybe bring us some banana or zucchini bread. Or some sweets. Something to hold us over till dinner. We only ate breakfast and dinner because Flower didn't have enough for lunch. But then she went back to work. Once she came back she would check on us before getting dinner. Then she came back for good and ate. I've never had never stuff but Flower tries to get us stuff to make sure we don't stay bored. I always play And protect Mal because she like a sister. We found her in the side of the road and Flower told me not to take her but I told her other could harm her. So after convincing her she came with us. She had a cold but soon adjusted to us after we feed her and gave her cough medicine and other stuff.

She only 8 but is like a 12 year old. I am 11 and Flower is 16. We are biological sisters. But anyways Flower went to the store to get breakfast and I cuddled Mal so she would stay warm. And then after a while Flower came back with granola bars, and orange and some apple juice. We of course were great full. Then after Flower hugged and fore head kissed us and told us to stay out of trouble. Then she walked to work. Flower never worry's about us. Once we did still have phones we used someone else's internet and Flower made this creepy pasta and said he lived in the woods. But nothing lives here but us. Not even wild animals attack us. But we can still see the city but they can't see us. Next to our tent we have a clothing line where Flower washes our clothes. We stay in the tent because we are naked. We only have the clothes we have on now. But theres a river and we wash in that but don't drink the water. Flower buys soap to wash the clothes and ourselves with. But we can't have that much. Anyways. Me and Mel played some of the games. We played connect 4 but some of the pieces were missing. Then we played with our dolls but some were missing arms and legs. But we ignored it. Then Mal took a nap and had me read her her favorite book. You give a mouse a cookie. I found it a donation box at the library and brought it back here for Mal to read and she loved it. After a while Mal woke up and we got out the tent and played tag Your it. We knew while we were playing Flower was busting her butt trying to make money. She makes 5 dollars a day. I know it's not much busy it's 5 dollars a day or nothing 🤷🏽‍♀️. But she needs six dollars to feed us in the morning and 3 at night. So she really doesn't have any money to spend on us. And if she ever gets money she always spends it on us before she spends it on us before herself. She came while we were playing tag with some peanut butter crackers and apple juice. There were 6 in a package so we all got 2. Then Flower drunk some apple juice and gave it to my and I drank my part and gave it to Mal. We always give her the last part of the drink because she leaves floaties. Then she hugged us and left. We went back to playing. We played for what felt like hours before we got tired and went inside the tent. "I wish we had the cover. I'm cold." Mal said putting her hands under her chin. "She has to take it so if she finds anymore scraps she can sew them to it." "Ann, do you ever wonder what could happen if we were rich? Or maybe even went to school?" She was right I Did always think about what would happen if we had money. We had to drop out of school and 3 months after we found Mal. Her real name is Madison. But we got tired of saying Madison so we called her Maggie then we called her Mal. As were talking Mal kept bring up if she had money all the things she'd do and spend it on. I put my hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry Mal. You won't always be stuck in the situation. One day you won't have to eat small breakfasts. You get to have pancakes 🥞 and bacon 🥓 and eggs 🍳 and toast, and even oatmeal or cereal 🥣." "Really?! What about the dresses 👗? Will I get to wear those?" "Mhm. you get to wear all the dresses and pretty clothes you want. And you don't ever have to wear the clothes you have on ever again." "Will I get new toys 🧸?" "Yes. You'll have so many toys you wine be able to close your toy box." "Will I get to live in a house?" "Yes. You'll get to live in the biggest house on your street. Everyone will be jealous." "Wow. How long do I have to wait?" "I don't know. Good things take time. And good things come to this who wait. So be patient and wait don't rush it." "Do you pinkie promise?" "I can't right now my hand got hurt while we were playing tag." "Hmp. Oh well." I rubbed her back. "Hey it's ok. I can't promise this because it could happen in 20 years!" "Yeah I guess." "Hey wipe that frowning face." I saw tears stream down her face. "When will we live in a house? When will I get new shoes? My feet are poking out of these. When will I get new clothes? I'm tired of wearing this black shirt, green coat and gray pants everyday. When will I get to eat? A good cooked meal? When will it happen Ann?" "Well you'll get new shoes as soon as we have left over money. And you'll get more clothes when we have left over money. You'll get a nice cozy warm home and home cocked meals when God decided the time is right. Until then you be great full for what you have. I could be worse." "How can it get worse that this?" "You see those clothes? You could be naked. You see this tent. You could be sleeping on concrete. You see those torn up shoes? You could have walked around bare foot. And if we didn't feed you, you would starve and die." "It could always be worst." She said sighing and looking down. I put a hand on her back. Then Flower came home. She had brought dinner. She said hi and we Hug trampled her. Then she took the stuff out. A half of can of beans. 3 slices of baloney. And 3 slices of bread and some flavored water to wash it down. I didn't really like tonight's dinner, but I ate it anyways. Then Flower told us she had something to tell us. "You guys. I needed more soap so I spent a lot of money on it. So you guys cans eat one meal tomorrow. Breakfast or dinner?" We talked it over and decided on dinner.

So we didn't eat all day. And once she did come home I was mad there wasn't a lot of food. My stomach was about to eat Mal and the tent! But she brought us hard boiled eggs, hot dogs, and bread. We ate and thanked her and went to bed.

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