Can’t I tell him that I have come to the conclusion that my life is a nightmare? Asleep and awake and the only way that I will be able to escape my nightmare is to leave it completely. How do I tell that to my best friend's brother? He would never understand. He does not know what it is like to have a family that does not want you. To have a stepfather that uses you as his own personal punching bag. To have a stepsister that makes it her life's personal mission to destroy you. No, he would not understand. Honestly, even if he knew that, there was nothing he could do to help me. I am the only one that can help myself. I have to figure out a way to make my life better. I do not have a knight in shining armor coming to save me. I have to save myself. And, sadly, being a human

