Chapter Gone

"Sometimes during those silent nights, I can feel his cold numb hand tighten around my neck. With the other,he yanked the metal handle of the tub until ice water would burst out of the faucet onto all of my belongings thrown into it. He would hold my head underneath the water of that porcelain tub. I attempted to scream with every breathe I could manage. It feels sometimes like his hands are still around my neck. And that in life, the only choices I am given are the ones that court decides for me "

How many 18 year olds get a one way plane ticket as a birthday gift? Well that was me.
As the world below me shrunk from my view of the window, I had a feeling... that somehow things will be different.

Gone...That's how I lived the first 17 years of my life. Now that I'm 18, things will be different. I am starting a new Chapter. No fear and no looking back.