Where it all started

Mommy promised that there were no monsters to me but she didn't know that daddy was the real monster which she abandoned me to with my baby brother and sister and never came back.

As my usual morning started I got up at three in the morning went down the stairs to see that my dad drunk laying in the couch with the room in a mess and with a broken wine bottle as always. I slowly bent down near the couch and let my fragile fingers pick up the glass pieces while it cut through my skin slightly and made it bleed as the same way it did for the past eight years. I slowly picked up all the shattered pieces put it in to a bag and thrust it onto the dustbin which made a echoing sound that lasted a few minutes or so. I drew up my blonde hair which laid on my skinny collar bone showing shoulder and tied it up into a bun and started to clean the living room. Three gradually became three thirty then four twenty then five forty and then gradually six by that time I was done cleaning, doing laundry, making breakfast and taking my dad to his room while he was throwing tantrums at me. As the alarm I put in my phone at six a.m. rang I rushed up the stairs to wake up my brother and sister. I drew back the curtains and tug their quill 'Em ,Leo get up now!' 'But it's too early' Leo shouted back at me 'It's already six we need to leave at seven to get to school in time,' saying so they got up and Leo went to take shower while I made their bed and plated there breakfast so I could get Emma and myself ready. I rushed to the dinner table and ate a piece of bread and drank a glass of water and quickly went to the sink to wash the dishes as Emma and Leo came in. 'Where is daddy,' Emma asked me 'He came back late from work so he is sleeping in ,will have to walk our selves to school so eat quickly,' ' Did you also eat peanut butter sandwiches,' Leo asked me while I putting the dishes away 'Yeah and your favorite juice is also there,' I said pointing at the glass of orange juice next to the sandwiches 'But why have we eaten the same thing for at least a week ,'Leo started to wine ' Well I haven't had time to go get groceries,' I said my voice slightly cracking up as I knew that time was not the real reason. 'But I don't want to eat it ,' Leo started to moan ' Why can't you look at Emma she is younger than you and how well she is eating it with out bothering me,' 'Cause she doesn't care,' he continued as the alarm in my phone set for seven o' clock rang. 'Ok I'll buy something on the way ,' I said as there was no time for me to deal with it 'Get your bags and Leo your assignment unless you want to flunk fifth grade,' I said and ran up to my room to get my things, but before I got my things I bent under my bed and got a wooden box and opened it to see that only one dollar and seventy five cents and forty cents collected in pennies was left after I had paid the rent and bills from the my salary. A tear rolled down my check as I was thinking how to feed Leo with only a dollar and seventy five cents while standing up. I looked in my mirror and saw a girl who was skinny and had dark circles under her eyes I quickly rubbed on some makeup and went downstairs and closed the house door and walked to the bus station which was only a few blocks away and got in.

Then we got out a few blocks away before from school and went to the café I worked at. Everything was over that I could have bought with a dollar the nearest thing that I could have bought with the money that was left with me was a muffin. 'I want this,' said Leo ' Me too ' Emma said pointing at the donuts but ignoring then I went to the cashier and asked the muffin I was lucky as Linda was working the shift ' What to you need baby ,' she asked me ' A muffin,' and as she gave it to me as I gave my money she counted it and looked at me and smiled ' Don't worry I don't mind putting in a few cents of my own', she said and I mouthed out a thank you and gave the muffin to Leo and carried Emma out of the shop as she was going to burst open 'Hey, hey you know if you be good I'll bring you donuts home tomorrow after work,' I said carrying her to school and Leo walking next to me Emma's eye twinkled and she stopped crying. We reached school I told Leo to take Emma to her second year kindergarten classroom and crossed the road and rushed to my high school a few blocks ahead and made into class at sharp at eight. 'Hey what took you so long,' Reagan asked me as I sat down next to her ' Had to make a few stops,' ' Leo again,'' Yeah ,' and then the bell rang and our lessons began.'

Tomorrow you will be given a quiz from this lesson' saying that my science teacher finished his lesson and we were off to the cafeteria for the interval. Me, Reagan and Tessa took are normal position at the cafeteria table as usual the cafeteria was always noisy but today it seemed to be more alive than ever ,it didn't take much time for us to guess the reason. 'O my gosh, I totally forgot that he's coming back today,' Tessa said excitedly ' Who's coming,' I questioned 'Like the most hot guy ever' and with that everyone got up to see a guy in a varsity jacket surrounded by cheerleaders and leading the football team into cafeteria and sat opposite to our table where I sat facing them. 'Who is that ,'I asked as I never had seen the guy in school before, 'That's Jayden Elroy oh we're have to been Stella,' Tessa replied looking astonished 'Well I've never seen him before,' 'Yeah that's because your nose is in the books 24/7,' 'Anyway you didn't seem him because he went to England for rehab for two years ago after a serious injury and now his back I guess,' Reagan said cutting short when Tessa went on and on about how I only study. Many people in the cafeteria was looking at him even my best friends but I was more than less interested to know him so I got up while everyone was talking and staring at him. Reagan pulled my elbow from across the table as I got up 'Stella what are you doing,' 'Leaving I need to return some books to the Library,' 'Wait until they leave,' 'Why should I ,''You know exactly why,' but ignoring her I pulled my elbow away from her and started to walk through the aisle to get to the corridor and as soon as I reached the table were that guys were and Chole and Debbie the captains of the cheerleaders quad got up 'Don't you know the rules,' Chole questioned me 'Well I have more important thing to do than fan girl over some guy,' I said what I thought and they seemed to be somehow offended by it. 'Listen sissy this a great achievement for the varsity team so learn to respect,' Debbie said 'If you meant he achieved all the fame for himself through getting a injury see whether you can get into a college by getting a injury yourself,' I said and passed them as I saw Jayden staring at me and the other guys surprised. After I reached the hall Reagan and Tessa came 'That was a real shock' Tessa said 'I don't have time for something stupid as that,' saying so I left to the library