Almost every day I look out the same window on the bus window. I never saw an change to any of my scenery. I never did anything differently. I always asked my parents to go and hangout with a couple of my friends down at the park maybe two blocks from are apartment building. I would always ask. Every day I would come from from that long, and boring bus ride home. None of my friends had rode the same bus as me. They always got picked up by their mom's and dad's.
My parents almost never left the house. The only one who ever ended up leaving the house was my dad. My mother would always have my aunt run to the store to get dinner since she just lived across the way from are apartment building in a beautiful white and gray house with huge windows on each side of the door. She loved to garden. She had such a Beautiful flower bed with white, pink, purple and blue flowers. I never got to go into her house. My mother had always told me that I wasn't to leave this house no matter what. I have always wondered and wondered. It was October 12, 2029 when things had finally changed. I was going to be 16 in 3 days. I was very excited to finally drive. I wouldnt have to ride the bus home anymore. I had rode the bus home that friday. I got home and I see my mother sitting on are couch with my father and aunt, I walk though the door with mindy, my dog jumping and licking my hand as I pet her. I've had her since I was a little girl and she was my best friend. I'd sit in my room with her as I'd scroll though my netflix to find something to watch. Mom calls my name and pulls me out of my thoughts. I answer with a yes and walk towards the couch they were all sitting on. "Kiley.. We have some news.. For you." Mom had said as she was looking at me with such a gray expression on her face. I had said to her "What is the news?" I was very shocked to come home to such activity. Everyday I would come home and usually no one said a word to me. I would walk to my room with mindy and everything would go as usual. Mom would cook dinner, dad would come home late from drinking. I would come out of my room when dinner was ready and mom would call my name down the hall. Dad usually got very touchy with mom and it was never the loving kind. He would be very aggressive towards us. My normal night would go with with him hitting me in every which way he could. Some nights I didn't come out of my room until dad had fallen asleep.
"Kiley.." mom says my name once again bringing me out of my thoughts. "Me and your father had decided that it would be best if you would stay with you aunt from now on..." mom gives me a glance of her eyes but turns away as if she was close to tears. My aunt melissa stands up and tells me to have all of my things ready by tomorrow and that I would be staying at her place from tomorrow night and on. She told me that she will come by early in the morning to help me pack my things as it was going to be Saturday that would mean I wouldnt have school until monday, my birthday. I look to her and say "Okay.. Um.. I'll have my things together by tomorrow. I think it might actaully take me some of your help to gather my things from around the house since you said you were going to be here early tomorrow to help me." she answers with a quick yes and walks causally to the door and waves goodbye as she walks on to her house. I was left alone with my mother Sue, and Father Jimmy.
My dad instantly jumped up from the couch and instead of turning towards the door to go and drink I noticed that he turned to the kitchen to get alchohol out of the fridge. I had never seen him drink in front of me. I always seen the after math but never seen him in action. I began scared and took off to my room with not a word said to either of them. I was completely and utterly at a lose for words. Things had been one way for such a long time thay I wasn't sure I was ready to move away from my parents. Things were never good but I managed and done what I had to with what I had and always wondered if their was more to life then what I was living. I was scared, nervous and excited in one. I wasn't sure what to think about this new change. This change has me on edge but I understood that this was an opportunity for me to have a life that I've always deserved and I was ready for it.