Life On The Edge (August Alaina Story)

Prologue

Amber

"Amber I'm cold"

I looked in the back of the car and saw my little sister shivering, so I crawled back there and snuggled up with her trying to make her warm again and hopefully she will fall asleep

"I can't turn the heat on right now Kay"

She laid her head on my lap as I rubbed her shoulder up and down trying to create heat to make her warm

It hurts me that my sister is suffering everyday just because I can't provide for her and myself on my own. She has been through so much a kid shouldn't go through at any age. I'm trying so hard to blind her from the fact that we are homeless because she don't understand what's going on and it's hard to answer the questions that she has because I don't want to expose her to this world that we are living in just yet

My mother and father had me at a really young age which cause there families to resent them, so they were on there own. When I was about 16 my parent had there second baby, Kamen, out of know where and that's who I'm living for, since no one else will

About 2 years ago my dad was killed, he was shot in the chest. We are from New Orleans and the neighborhood we live in was not very good and he was a victim of that. My mom was so stressed out and ended up losing her job which made things even worse for our family

The depression got the best of her and she ended up committing suicide and leaving everything behind... including us. I graduated high school that year and everything went down hill from there

Money started to go quickly with bills and I couldn't get a job because Kamen is only 4 and I don't have enough money to put her in a daycare or preschool

Eventually we lost the house and I sold majority of are stuff just so I could feed my sister and myself. Right now this car is our home until I can figure out what I should do next.

The Next Morning

I woke up and got my self together looking back at my little sister seeing that she was still sleeping in the back seat. To be honest I wanted to cry for her, not being able to live a normal child life, can't even sleep in her own worm bed at night... she came into this world struggling and she doesn't deserve to live like this

I got out of the car and walked to the trunk going into a trash bag grabbing a set of clean clothes for me and Kay to wear. I saved some of our clothes so we wouldn't have to wear the same thing everyday especially because I didn't want people to notice

I'm not really a person that begs for things or wants people to sympathize over my life and feel sorry for me because I'm going through a little set back. I like to do things on my own because I'm very independent but I know I have to let a little bit of those feelings go because I do realize that I need help and I can't do this on my own for to much longer

I walked to the back of the car and opened it getting back in with her

"Kay wake up" I said softly shaking her a little but she ignored me "Kay"

She lifted her head a little bit with her eyes slightly shut and smiled at me. It makes me happy that she can still smile at times like this

"You ready"

"We go get clean?"

"Yup"

She already had her jacket on because it was freezing last night so I folded up the blanket and set it on the seat and we both got out of the car. Kamen grabbed my hand and we started walking to the nearest gas station about 10 minutes away. I didn't want to drive because I don't have money to waste on gas

"Are we almost there I'm cold and I'm hungry sister" Kay said shivering as we walked

"Yea kay it's right around the corner"

We made it to the gas station and walked inside going straight into the bathroom, which wasn't bad it was actually pretty clean.

I dropped the backpack that was on my back and pulled out the small bar of soap and a washcloth as Kamen stripped out of her clothes knowing the routine

I washed us both up and packed everything away in the bag getting ready to go out into the store area

"I'm hungry"

"I know baby hold on"

We walked to the back of the store and I went into the freezer grabbing a orange juice and then I went into the aisles grabbing anything that I can place into my pockets for later

I know steeling is wrong and all, but I have to do what I have to do. The first time I stole something I was about 12 and I swear I was going to get caught but I didn't and after that it, got easier and easier.

Kamen also knew not to ask questions when she watched me and I really didn't like the fact that she did because I didn't want her to think that it was ok, but there is really nothing I can do about it.... we got to eat somehow and stay within the small budget we have to work with

"Zip you jacket back up"

I looked down at Kamen and saw her struggling to zip her coat up so I bent down and started to help her. As I was down there I finally got the zipper to work and as I went to stand up someone bumped into me making me fall back down onto the floor

When I looked up to see what asshole wasn't paying attention I saw a hand reaching out towards me

"My fault ma I ain't see yuh" I grabbed the hand and he helped me stand to my feet

"You should really watch where you going" I brushed myself off and looked down thinking he was just going to walk away from me not caring, but when I looked up he was still standing there

"I apologize" He smiled

This man was so fine and I took in all of his nice features. He was wearing sunglasses so I couldn't really see his eyes but he looked good

"Come on Kay" I held out my hand and she grabbed it as we went to walk away

"Bye" Kamen turned around and yelled waving her hand and I mentally face palmed my self at her social personality

When I looked behind me to see if he was still standing there and he smiled at us finally walking out the door. That felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders knowing he was gone.

I was never really good with men and I have no idea why, they just make me nervous most of the time. Believe it or never had a boyfriend before... yes I had boys on my back, I'm not ugly, but I never was interested in building a relationship with anyone because I'm not really good when it comes to feelings or love I guess.

My momma even thought I was a lesbian because I never brought a boy home or even talked about one before.... it was just something I wasn't really worried about
and I'm definitely not worried about it now

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