Teen Ink

Welcome to My Life

I screamed when my abusive mother threw me across the room. Jasper tried to reach me but our adopted mother threw him as well.
“You ungrateful little…” She was drunk again. We had tried to leave the house but she’d gotten to us. I screamed again when she hit me. My body was bruised, so was Jasper’s. I had experienced this for fifteen years. Jasper for seventeen.
“Jasper!” I shouted but I ended up spitting out blood when I received a kick to the stomach.
“Rose!” He shouted back. I vaguely recall him pushing our mother out of the way and rushing me out of the house. I didn’t know what happened next because everything went black.
Welcome to my life.