The Abandoned
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Ongoing, First published Aug 06, 2014
Hello, my name is Elizabeth Shaw. I am a not so normal 16 year old girl. My father abandoned me when I was 10. My mother left for the army. Me an my now 6 year kid sister live 2 hours away from school. I can't drive, and I hate bikes. So I scooter me and my sister home. 

One day while going home a van appears behind us on the highway road. I'm forced to go faster and have my sister lay in the caravan attached to the bike. The Van suddenly stops. The man gets out. I then scoot my legs off until in home. 

Elizabeth is no normal teenage girl. She is force to ask money from the school to live and also from the army homeless program. She leaves school early every day to get home on time. Will her life ever be normal?
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