Gone

Keep your grades up, don't piss him off, then go to sleep, repeat. That was Kaley Ballentine's life while living in the abusive home her parents kept her trapped in. For six years she had to make sure to be the daughter her father wanted her to be, make sure she didn't trip, make sure she kept up with school and her grades in order to go to sleep without a broken nose or bruised ribs. It was a miracle when, at the age of thirteen, she had been taken away from that home and was put in an all girl's home, waiting not very long before she had been adopted by the Peazer family. Now, at the age of eighteen and about to go off to college, her only focus is to keep the darker days behind her and make the best of college, even if it means having to take a hit, do a shot, and hope for the best.