When I woke up I was in a hospital bed with all these wires attached to me. This made me panic because my arms were completely exposed. I hope that they don't keep me here because of that.
"What the hell, when did I get here?"
"Oh your awake, Hi I'm Mary Smith"
"Hi?"
"I'm a social worker and it has been brought to my attention that some things have been going on in your house"
"Whatever I'm leaving and where's Amy?"
"She's in the next room. Sorry but you can't leave, your hurt"
"Watch me"
I start pulling out the wires and get up. Then a doctor comes and tells me to sit back down. I of course don't listen and put my shoes on. I try to walk over to Amy but the social worker stops me.
"You can't leave your hurt"
"Like I said before, watch me"
"Your not old enough to make that decision"
"I need to get my sister so excuse me"
I walk around her and up to Amy. She looks worse than me but she's awake too. I whisper to her.
"We need to go there's a social worker over there"
"Shit ok let's go"
Amy puts her shoes on and her jacket.
"You can't leave"
"Lady do you want to start a fight or what"
Then a police officer walks up to us.
"Sorry young ladies but your going to have to come with us."
I look at Amy and she looks at me. We both make a run for it and manage to escape considering our injuries. I call Avery and she picks us up.
"What were you guys doing there?"
Amy speaks for me.
"We were at the hospital. Dad died"
"I know but he wasn't at that hospital"
Then I speak.
"It was mom, she was happy that dad died"
"Yeah she kicked our asses"
"So that's why you were in the hospital?"
"Yeah" Amy says.
"And now a fricken Social Worker is after us"
And just as I said that a police car pulled us over. I could tell it was the police officer from the hospital.
"Damn it what are we going to do"
"Nothing" Avery says.
"BUT THEY'LL TAKE US!!!" I say.
"Well what do you want me to do run from the cops!?!"
"Uh YEAH"
"I'm not going to do that"
Then the police officer walks up to the car and asks for Avery's ID. Me and Amy keep are heads down hoping he won't notice us.
"Your free to go"
We all sigh a sigh of relief.
"You can but you two are coming with me. We reluctantly get out the car and I see Avery tear up a little as the officer tells her to go. I go silent but Amy does the talking.
"Where are you going to take us?"
"To a foster home"
"She's our family and she has her own place"
"She's 17, not a legal adult"
"Fuck you"
I nudge Amy and she stops talking. When we get to the car the Social worker immediately starts asking us questions, Amy is silent now and I guess I have to carry the conversation.
"What's your name"
"Scarlett and that's Amy"
"Ok and how old are you"
"I'm 13 and she's 14"
"Ok so can you tell me what happened the night before you came to the hospital?"
"It's none of your business"
"Ok well can you tell me how you got those cuts on your arm?"
"WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM LADY ITS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!"
"Scarlett did someone do that to you?"
I roll my eyes and look at Amy for support. She tells the lady to to bug off and that none of this has anything to do with her.
*****
We get to the house and we meet this gay couple.
"Hi I'm Adam and this is Stan"
"Hi"
"Ok well why don't you come on in"
They show us our rooms and once inside the Social Worker talked to the men.
"Ok what's our escape plan?"
"Looks like a long drop"
"Dang it"
Just then I remembered I never got to finish talking to Amy. But this wasn't a good time. Then they called us down for a rules discussion or something stupid like that. At this point the police officer and Social worker had left so it was just me Amy and these two.
"So what's your name"
"Amy"
"That's a nice name, and you?"
"Scarlett"
"Ok Amy and Scarlett I hear you've been through a lot, do you want to talk about anything?"
"No" I say. I remember that I still have a razor in my pocket so that calmed me down a little.
"Well the Social Worker told me about your arms Scarlett"
"So"
"Is there anything your hiding"
Then Amy cuts in.
"Ok guys, we don't need to be close or anything. So can you stop interrogating my sister"
"Ok well is there anything you want? Anything you need?"
"To get the hell out of here" I mumble under my breath.
"Ok well what we can't have is disrespect"
I was to angry about his previous questions that I was not holding back anything.
"Well fuck you"
"Excuse me"
"You heard me. F-U-C-K you"
Amy was trying to get me to stop but I was to heated.
"And also I don't want to be in a house with two fags"
"OK THATS ENOUGH"
"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO HIT ME SLAP ME STICK MY HAND IN A BOILING POT OF WATER!!!! BECAUSE NEWS FLASH IT WON'T WORK DUMBASS"
They just stared at me.
"I understand you've been through a lot but-
I cut him off.
"YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ME OR AMY HAVE BEEN THROUGH!!!"
"Ok please calm down"
I ran away, I couldn't stay in there a second later. I ran into my room and locked the door. I took out the razor and began slashing at my skin. Then Amy knocked on the door.
"Are you ok in there"
"Go away"
"Please let me in"
"No I want to be alone"
"I can't just leave you alone"
"Why you think I'm gonna kill myself???"
"By the way you were talking yesterday, I'm worried"
"Our life sucks what does it matter"
"We have each other. Now please let me in"
I get up and open the door. Amy sees my arms and goes tho the bathroom to find something to stop the bleeding. After she raps my arm up I burst into tears again. I'm so done with life at this point. Then there's another knock on the door. It's Adam.
"You can't come in"
"I saw the bloody tissues, is everything ok in there?"
"Yeah everything is fine"
"Umm Scarlett are you ok?"
"She's fine"
"Ok. Let me know if you need anything"
"Yeah"
*****
I go to sleep because tomorrow I go back to hell aka school.
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