I'll look after you
Chapter 1 - The Beginning
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Here I am, I never thought it would come to this. I never thought I would actually end up here. But I guess this is for the best.
My name, is Maria Ann Barrymore and I'm 16. I live in Oklahoma, with my parents, and my three brothers, Carson, Michael, and Devin. We use to be a normal happy little family, until Carson and Devin stopped talking to each other, and Carson dropped out of school at only 15 years old. Then theres Michael, Michael just became a jerk after our grandfather died when we were little kids, hes always picking fights now, with everyone, and he treats my parents like garbage.
I walked up the stairs to the kitchen, where mom was digging in her purse to find lunch money for Devin and Michael, I usually don't eat lunch at school, I don't like taking money from my parents, since we have so little of it. So, as usual I just walked passed all three of them and dug in the fridge to find things to make my breakfast smoothie. "Maria, are you going to take lunch money today?" My mother asked me. "No mom, I'll just have half of Hailey's lunch like I usually do." I said as I mixed my smoothie. When the bus came to pick me up, I watched Devin and Michael walk off to school (They stopped taking the bus years ago.) When I got to school I headed straight to the end of the hall where some of my friends were, Kyle, Jason, and Hailey. I asked Jason if I could copy his homework, since I usually don't do mine, as I was asking, I noticed a guy sitting on the floor behind my friends, I had never seen him before, so I asked who he was. "Oh him, he's a new kid here, hes in our grade, his name is Colby I think. He's from Canada, eh?" Everyone laughed but me. "The Canadian jokes aren't funny Jason." I said as I copied the first three questions on Jason's papers.