I don't go to school the next day, or the next day, or the next day. I'm staying with my mom. I love her and I just can't leave her.
Dad comes in. "Hey sweetie" he says to me. "Aunt Magie is going to with us. She's packing up your stuff before we leave."
"Wait" I say. "Leave? To where?"
"Our new home. It's close to Sam's house."
"Why are we going?" I ask. "Besides aren't all of the houses near Sam as small as her's?"
"Yes" he says. "It's just that we don't have the money right now to own such a big house."
My dad has never said anything about financial problems because we never had any, an all of a sudden we have to move.
I don't argue.
"It's almost time for mom's surgery. We should leave. You need to go to bed. There's purple under your eyes.
Actually they're black I want to say. The purple are the bruises.
I kiss my mom's forehead and leave. Dad has to help me walk because my knees keep on buckling.
When I get home I say hi to Aunt Magie and plop on my bed. My mind doesn't argue when I fall asleep.
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I'm backed up against the locker and scream my mind races at a hundred miles per hour. I can't move.
The class moves closer in and in the middle is Will, Sam, and Lauren together laughing.
Finally someone speaks. Lauren moves over to Will and feels his bicep. "Perfect. Sam, grab her." They both run to me and as much as I squirm nothing happens. "Will" she speaks again. "Come hit her." The next minute is black.