Life in a shell 🐚

"Growing Up"

Life as how you know it. Living among a large household has it ups and down, you acquire so much attention from your parents that most times your overlooked. NO, it's not intentional at all. Our parents go about their daily schedules with one determination and that's to take care "HOME". My name is "Sarah Livingston" and this is my story!! Being known as a little brat has its perks, I wouldn't call myself a spoil kid at all. Just having everything I wanted became something that was norm of mines. Not caring about how or what struggles my Parents had to encounter never became a thought at all. It's good to listen and learn situations as it comes our way, one day those life lessons would be something that'll save our lives when we least expected to
be. Until it became a day my whole world fell; I was the third child to a family of 13. Sometimes I felt like I was the oldest! My eldest brother had been back and forth with the Law so much that we hardly see him so days it felt like he weren't apart of our Family. I could remember this evening like it was yesterday, We were playing on the outside when my Mama received a call that changed our entire life. House phone began to Ring, Mama shouted "Can someone please answer the phone" i swiftly ran and picked it up saying "Hello". Without any warning the other receiving end said "This is Johnson from Accident & Emergency, I'm afraid to be a bearer of bad news but your husband was in a fatal car accident and was reported dead on the scene" My heart felt as if someone had stab me and left the knife in it to savor the pain, my eyes began to get blurry from the tears that clouded into my eyes. All I could of saw was a glimpse of my Mama running to catch me before I fell. Distant voices around me screaming; "SARAH" was all I heard. Couldn't believe a word he told me, my Papa was my "Hero" never would I've imagine my life without him being there for us. When I finally woke up I tried to stand up, my legs began to shake. Everything stopped, everything a statue all around me. Frozen in time. Was it all a Dream? Questions begun to cloud my mind. I looked in the corner and saw my Mama sitting down in a rocking chair just shaking her head with tears running down her eyes.