Save Me

Mother couldn't have left at a worse time. I had just turned thirteen when she got sick, at the time I was becoming a young adult, and instead of being there for me she was stuck in the hospital while cancer took over her body. By my fourteenth birthday, she was gone. Father couldn't have taken it any worse. He immediately shut me out and welcomed drugs and alcohol. it took three months to get a word from him, and when I did it was verbal attacks. Soon after, the physical abuse initiated. Five boys came into my life and saved me. I was withering away, but I could breathe again.