Ways To Say Goodbye

15 year old Clementine Summers has been used to people leaving her for others. Like when she was 7 her best friend left her for a girl who ended up bullying Clementines friend. Or the time her sister Jane ran away with her boyfriend on on Em's 9th birthday. If she made a list of people who have left her for other people than she would have a list of people who, in her eyes, saw someone better and prettier than her.

When she was only 13, Em's father took her away from her mother. They were fighting about weather they should give her up for adoption or keep her.

I was 13 years old when my life changed. I couldn't find the words to beg or ask or to say really anything. My father was my best friend. He was close to me but distant to everyone else. He said it was because I was everything like him. For 2 years I was my father for Halloween. My mother though. She didn't seem to like me. I knew she loved me but just not the way I want to be loved. My mother and father were fighting. Not the kind of fighting over house issues or infidelity, but kids. Me. We were running out of money.