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I didn’t care that I was going to get in trouble.
I didn’t care about anything other than shutting him up.
“What the fu—”
I ran my shoulder into his stomach as hard as I could, and he fell to the ground with me on top of him. The kids started hooting and hollering as we wrestled each other on the floor. It didn’t surprise me that I could keep up with him, everyone always said I was big for my age.
“Break it up!” a man yelled from behind us, yanking me off the boy who looked like he was ready to kill me.
Yeah, me too, bro.
I shoved off the man I thought was the guard, and before anyone could say anything to me, I ran.
Except this time, it was straight toward the back door.
“Aiden, stop! Where are you going?” Misty yelled from somewhere in the room, but I ignored her too.
Taking off into the yard where there was a playground, going for the first hiding spot I could find.
Under the green slide.
Where I finally, for the first time that day…
Felt safe.
I let out a breath. The one I’d been holding from the second I walked into this stupid foster place. Wanting so badly to just run away.
Where would I go?
Who would I find?
What would happen to me?
Even though I wanted to be left alone, I hated that I was by myself. With no one to talk to, no one to make me feel like everything was going to be alright. I had nothing but the lonely, afraid feeling in my heart.
“Momma, why?” I quietly spoke out loud, hoping no one would hear me. “Why did you leave me all by myself? Who’s going to protect me and love me? Who’s going to be there for me? Who, Momma, who?”
“I’ll share my dinner with you,” someone offered out of nowhere in the sweetest voice I’d ever heard.
My eyes flew up, and I came face to face with a small, little girl with pretty, bright blue eyes standing over me. Holding onto her plate of food because it was the only thing she had to share, to give…
Me.
As if Momma had magically made her appear.
Did she?
“I don’t like to be by myself either. It really sucks, but I can come under there with you, and then we can hide from the mean boy together.”
I didn’t know anything about girls, other than they whined and complained a lot. Especially the ones in my class at school. They were always telling on us.
“You’re not going to tell Misty where I’m at?”
“Why would I do that?”
“Because you’re a girl.”
She looked at me like I was crazy. “Well, that’s not my fault. I can’t help that I’m a girl, God made me like this.”
