Ch. 1: I Promise

     I never thought I would be here. Here goes nothing. "Can I talk to you?"
     "Sure." (tells her team to excuse her)
     "Hi my name is Brooke Michelle and I am 16-years-old. I live in Washington with my mom and my 7-year-old brother Joshua. Oh yea, and my mom's husband Josh. I don't like him so much but I'll get to that later."

*Brooke hears screams*

     "Ugh! There they go again." Then I hear a little knock at my bedroom door so I get up to answer my door. "Yes?"
     "It's me, Joshua. Can I come in here with you sister?"
I hate when he looks so sad, "Come on boo." He goes straight to my bed and I close and join him. We just lay and stare up at the ceiling. 
     Then Joshua turned over and asked me, "Sister? Why don't you like my daddy?"
I was taken back by that question. I didn't know if i wanted to tell him the truth or just play it off. But I couldn't lie to him. So, I took a deep breath and just when i was about to speak,
     "WAM!!!" my mom busted into my room and started yelling at me and my brother, "Get ya'll lazy asses up and go clean up my house!"I really hate when she gets high. She is such a bitch! 
     At first me and my brother didn't move until Josh came in. "You all heard what she said. Get up and get the shit done!"
     If only looks could kill. I rolled my eyes and grabbed Joshua's hand and when I was walking out of the door my mom hit me in the back of my head and said, "Roll ya eyes again." If she wasn't my mother I would have slapped her and told her to never put her hands on me again! But, I just continued to walk. 
    Still holding Joshua's hand, I looked around to see where the mess was only to see Joshua's papers or what ever he was doing. 
     "Now Joshua why didn't you pick up your stuff?"
     "Because, I was sitting down drawing before my dad came home and him and mom started arguing and that's when I got up and came to your room because I didn't want to hear them."
     I understood what he was saying, that's exactly why I stay in my room all the time. "Well, Joshie pick up your stuff. Are you hungry?"
     "Yes!"
     "Ok, well clean your mess up and we will leave to get us something to eat."
     I went back to my room to get my keys. Then I went to knock on my mom's room door, only to get no answer; so, I knew what they were doing. I just rolled my eyes and walked away from the door.
     "Joshua are you ready? Come on." 
     We got in the car and Joshua asks, "Brooke do we have to listen to Beyonce? Can we listen to something else?"
     "I started to laugh, "No we don't but on the way back I'm putting her back on." So I put my Watch The Throne CD in Joshua started laughing, so I asked, "What's so funny sucka?"
     "Cause, I asked can we play something else besides Beyonce, and you play her husband" he says while still shaking his head and laughing. I didn't get his point, so I just left it alone and pulled off. We ended up going to this dinner not too far from our house. We decided we were going to eat in, so we sat down and ordered our food. 
     As we were eating I noticed that something was wrong with Joshua. He had something on his mind. "Joshua, what's the matter?"
     "Nothing."
     "Don't lie to me. You know you can tell me anything. I am your sister and you can always talk to me."
     He took a deep breath, "Brooke I don't want you to leave this Summer because I just feel so alone and I have no one to talk to. You know how mom is, all she do is stay in the room then she comes out yelling about something I didn't do."
     "Has she ever hit you?"
     He puts his head down.
     "Joshua! Has she ever hit you while I was gone? Answer me."
     He looked up with tears in his eyes, "Yes. You remember last Summer when I told you I broke my finger playing basketball?"
     "Yes, I remember."
     "Well, I lied. Mom did it and she told me to tell who ever asked that I was playing basketball."
     That's when I started to get upset because I didn't know my mom was putting my baby brother that much pain. "I'm so sorry Joshie. I didn't know. I will never leave you again, I promise."
     I got up to hug him and we hugged for so long that Joshua finally said, "Ok sister, dang can we go now?"
     It was kind of funny because I didn't feel like we were actually hugging that long. But, I love him so much. I would never let anything bad happen to him as long as I was around. "Ok, let's go"
     We got in the car but before I pulled off I had to put my Beyonce back in and Joshua just shook his head and started laughing. "What's funny?"
     "You! Can you go a day without listening to her?"
     "You are such a hater I swear," I said while giggling at my littler brother trying to make fun of me.
     "No I am not. I like Beyonce, but I'm not crazy over her like you. Aye what ya'll call ya'llselves? Beyturoge?"
     "Really Joshua? Don't get beat up, and it's BEYHIVE and don't you forget it," I replied while laughing but very serious.
      "Well EX-cuse me," he said jokingly.
     "Now, let's go." I pulled off.
     We were about 20 minutes away from being home and we, well I, was jamming to "Party" and the whole time Joshua was laughing at me singing off key. "If Beyonce heard you singing her song like that she would sue you."
     "Shut up punk! I can sing," I said while laughing.
     "Yea, If you say so..."
     I was about to make a left turn and out of no where...
"BOOM!"

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