Family

Chapter 1

A/N 

---I didn't proof read this. Let me know what you think in the comments please. I combined the prologue and this chapter. For those who read the prologue before I deleted it look for *** to read the rest of chapter 1---

I looked up toward the blue sky with puffy clouds that looked like cotton balls in a bag but larger.

I started to remember what had happened to my family and the reason why I'm in the foster system. I live in D.C with my foster parents.

They aren't good people.

All they do is drink, smoke pot, and fight all the time.

I'm just 8 years old, I shouldn't have to know about any of this horrible stuff that I've witnessed.

My thoughts are cut short to crashing coming from inside the house.

I run inside to see my foster dad dean throwing his glass full of bourbon across the room at my foster mom maria.

She screams "Dean!".

I'm petrified and I just stand there.

My legs are shaking due to the fear that is going through my entire body.

There are goosebumps on my arms and I can feel all the color drain from my face.

I see dean walk over and grab my arm and yank me up the stair

"Come on you little twit!" he says and pushes me into my room. I fall and land on my side and slide into the bedside table.

"You stay in here for the rest of the night." He slams my door shut and locks it.

Looks like I'm stuck in here for the rest of the night.

I can hear screaming coming from downstairs. I walk over to my bed, which is just a mattress on the floor with a thin blanket and sheets and a worn out pillow.

I take a seat on it and wrap my legs around my legs and just pray to god to get me out of here.

I hear some loud bangs like someone was being thrown into a wall because the walls shake and I think of the worst and then my door swings open and I see the most beautiful people in the world.

There are two of them.

A male and female and I can't help but feel this weird connection to them like everything's going to be ok and a feeling of comfort that I haven't felt since my family was murdered.

I realized they were Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs, my teachers.

Mrs. Jacobs walks over to me.

She bends down to my level and says " Everything is gonna be ok now." I couldn't help but believe her.

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I jolt awake from my dream to yelling from down stairs. 

I shake my head trying to get rid of my dream from my memory. 

Why was I dream of Mr and Mrs Jacobs. They're my teachers! 

I check the time and see I have a half an hour to get ready and to the bus stop. 

I get dressed, grab my bookbag and head down stairs. 

As I go down stairs the yelling gets louder and I hear a loud smack and scream. 

I look and see Maria on the floor and dean standing above her. 

She was holding her face. "What are you looking at!" Dean yells at me.