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Chapter One

Sloan

As I stretch, I roll onto e of sofa and catch myself just before I face plant onto the polished wood floor If there’s one thing I miss about my old life it’s a bed It’s sad because I should ain unless it’s on the news

I sit up on the floor and sigh I keep falling off the couch and I’m pretty sure my luck will run out and I’ll end up with a bloody nose But it won’t be anything compared to the way my life has fallen apart

The feds storh-rise and took my mother just as the door onabout est frauds of all tiout of the ork to find me and ask me questions They’ll be disappointed to find out I knew nothing

I wasn’t shocked by the news because I knew froe that even if you wore a fancy suit you could still be a cri that kno to dress well If you ask me that’s scarier than how easily my father could slip into one person then another I’m still not sure who he really is

Luckily neither parent wanted uess I’d been a ht have been in love at one point but were really only together in the end because it benefited the both of them

The local boarding school was a dream for all of us even if I hated the place At least there I felt I was left alone for the most part I played the part while I was there and did all the things that would ed, so maybe I’m more like my father than I realize

Whenpulled out fro there alone I’d always thought of one that I began to understand the reality of what that truly meant Even if I wasn’t close toschool wasn’t a place you could stay if there was no one paying the bill

I saw parents ere close with their children, but I saw a large majority that were like lad that I wasn’t close to mine when all was said and done Maybe it made it easier to pick up the pieces they left behind, but considering I’ it, what do I know

I rub the sleep out ofday I worked late, but every ti me know someone else needed a ride Toup people so late in the area I was at, but it’s hard to turn down theI never realized was how much it cost to live

I was put into the state’s foster systehteenth birthday There was nothing left frooverne my father had done

No one would take hter Most of the friends I had were gone since their parents told theone on with their lives when they left to go to college I got lucky when my one friend, Cara, had taken me in She let me crash on her sofa and use her car, which wasWe’d never been close in school, but when I ran into her and she o fro to do next All those years at a fancy private school didn’t prepare me for poverty

Cara and I e hoht In exchange I get to sleep on her couch and use her car for free What choice do I have? I’et et it Thankfully she doesn’t need her car and she’s on break froet out from under myself