A GRAIN OF HOPE

Denise goes through the toughest life struggles a child can go through. Until one day she grows up and meets the person who changed her whole life.

The last time I tried to help her she slapped me and told me to mind my got damn business. She said I needed to grow up and be more like her and stop acting like a little bitch. But I was little and I didn't know know any better and my mother was all I had since I didn't know my father.

So like a child I listened to her and she would take me in her room and make me look pretty . Put make up on my face and comb my hair. She would tell me;don't be scared it will only hurt a little then it will feel good. Just relax and it will be all over. She would make me take my clothes off and lay on the bed and then a man would come in and touch me in places that didn't feel comfortable to me at all. And as he layed on me and did his business tears would start to role down my eyes and I would look for my mother to help me but I just seen her stand at the door and smile. After the man was done he would hand her some money and he would leave and so would she.

When I was hungry I had to go out and beg for food and sometimes I wouldn't g