A Life Of a Sinner

Good bye mom!:

  I didn't mention it earlier, but I have an older sister name Q. She was rarely around when I growing up. She mostly came to borrow money or food from my mother. Then she would disappear for months and then pop back up. I thank her in a way however because had she not come over one day and took me away I would probably never had started school. A typic child starts school when they turn three years old. I was the exception. I didn't attend daycare, I didn't go to preschool or kindergarten for that matter. I stayed at home all day and watched the Wayne Brady show and whenever my mother had company she would make me hide in my Brother's room under the bed. She wouldn't allow me to come out. So I couldn't go to the bathroom, and I couldn't eat until they left. I can not count the times that I fell asleep under those beds. When my mother stepped out to run an errand she left seven year old me alone. A few hours went by and my sister showed up. She asked me where our mother went and I told her I didn't know she went out. She told me to hop in the car and she took me to my Brother's school. She was asking me questions about school and being that young I didn't know its importance. She looked frantic at the fact that I wasn't attending school at the age seven. My sister took my siblings and I to her house. She didn't let my mother know, she just took us. My mother looked high and low. She called almost everyone in the family looking for us.
   My sister did what my mother refused to. She took me to the doctor and I got my first physical. I cried like a two year old. The next few days, I was being put into first grade at Hawethorne Elementary School. My first grade teacher was so nice to me. I got right in. She even told my sister that I was more advanced than the kids in the class. My first grade teacher asked Q if she wanted to move me up to 2nd grade instead and my sister declined. She explained that she didn't want me to miss anything. As a kid I didn't realize how much that would affect me in the long run.