Chapter 2: Into the System
335 Words
I remember being taken from my mother like it was yesterday.
It was a warm 80-degree sunny day.
The sun was bright and warm.
It all happened so fast and unexpectedly.
One minute we were at home, next, we were taken to a place called D.A. Blodgett.
No one told us what was going on.
All four of us were set inside a small room for a few minutes.
Mother hid her tears til they came and separated us.
I will never forget the sadness in my mother's eyes.
I screamed for her until we drove off, and I fell asleep in the back of the police car
When I woke up, we were taken to a place called Kid'z First.
The bedroom they set us in was very cramped, but we made it work.
By the first morning, we played hide and seek, and tag and I put together a puzzle.
By noon, one of the staff came in with a lady, who introduced herself as Ms. Lauren.
I don't know what happened next, all I knew we were going home, so I thought.
When we arrived at her house, she was very clean and organized.
She told us the rules of the house.
We had only two options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, chicken pot pie or ramen. noodles.
If we didn't eat it all for dinner, we had it cold the next morning for breakfast.
I ended up getting sick.
I tried to tell her, but she said we were almost home.
I tried to hold it in but failed.
Puke sprayed all over the car.
I was only 3 years old cleaning a minivan.
Monday through Thursday we were in bed by 8:00 pm
Fridays we stay up late watching RAW SMACKDOWN
Jeremiah had his room upstairs and Sarah and I had bunk beds with sheets in the basement.
Time went by and my siblings and I grew closer, so did our bond, until a green van showed up one day.
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