ksinner
November 4th, 2004, 10:41 AM
okay, so I used to live with my grama. Lived with her til I was 16, then I moved in with my mom and stepdad. My mom did drugs and hardcore drinking the majority of my childhood, but straightened up when I was around 12, got married..blhablha..so grama was ready to retire and decided it was time I move in with mom. I didn't wanna, but I also didn't have much choice.
Anyway, we moved to LIttle Elm. No stop lights. One iddy grocery store. One gas station. Very Mayberry-ish. I finished high school there..blahblahb, moved out, got my own place..but things are TIGHT. But theres NO way I'd move back in with mom. I'd tack my "welcome home" sign to a grocery cart before I'd move back home.
So anyway, while I lived with grama (grama lived in louisiana...now i live in Dallas) I had lots of friends...one in particular...Lindsey.
She was homely, but a really cool girl. We hung out a lot became good friends. Her mom was divorced and she has a younger brother. She was surrounded by drugs and alcohol at home, and just...bad kids...but didn't get involved in any of that because she hung out with me so much...and I never got involved w/ that stuff.
Then I moved to Dallas...and she started hanging out with the wrong crowd..started smoking..drinking...drugs...got pregnant a few times (but miscarried b/c she cant have babies..she had a partial hystorectomy by the time she was 14...having a full one this december and she's only 20) found out last night that she's been raped 4 times...once was by her mom's boyfriend...and mom didnt' believe her...mom is in a wheelchair b/c shes sick all the time and has had over 20 surgeries...and now has no hip basically...and she drinks ALL day...doesnt even remember me being in town 2 weeks ago...and she adores me...fights with Lindsey hardcore..
Lindsey's brother is 15 now...and has pulled a gun on his mom and lindsey several times.
So a few weeks ago my mom calls me and says that she talked to Jimmy (my stepdad) and they want Lindsey to come live with them. Because my mom knows the situation she lives in and feels awful for her (and they're TIGHT on money right now and Lindsey could help by paying a little rent). She knows from what she's heard from me that Lindsey would be a GREAT kid and has SUPER potential but she can't get out of her homelife. She's got NO support system whatsoever (she wanted to go to beauty school...got the state to help pay for it but her grandparents told her that she'd never finish and she'd be wasting everyones time trying) Every time we talk, she cries to me that she wants me to come home..back to Shreveport...so she can stop hanging out with all those ppl that arent' helping her. And Im NOT moving back to shreveport.
So my parents came up with this idea...to let her move in with them...rent free the first month til she gets settled and finds a job...she can come and go as she pleases...just no guys overnight, no drugs, no alcohol..just obey the basic rules...I'm not 5 minutes down the road, but I'm only about 10-15 miles away. And mymom and i BOTH said we'll help her any way we can if we see her TRYING to stand up on her own..
She's crazy about the idea..is just waiting to get her car fixed...and is planning on moving around Thanksgiving...
But she's scared to leave her mom. Because she's in a wheelchair. But her mom can do for herself. She can drive (got a dwi a few weeks ago, drives drunkkkkkk all the time), she can cook, she can clean, its just harder. And Lindsey needs to save HERSELF. Then shes worried about her brother pulling a gun on her mom, and her not being able to defend herself. I say, that's when you call the police and have him thrown in jail.
Then I'm afraid that she'll get here and find the wrong crowd (cause I wont be around A LOT cept on the weekends mostly) and start doing drugs again...and then its in the house....for my mom to find...
bUT i WANt her to succeed...and I truely feel in my heart that if she could just get out of there that she'd be fine..i'm just nervous.
what do YOU guys think?
Anyway, we moved to LIttle Elm. No stop lights. One iddy grocery store. One gas station. Very Mayberry-ish. I finished high school there..blahblahb, moved out, got my own place..but things are TIGHT. But theres NO way I'd move back in with mom. I'd tack my "welcome home" sign to a grocery cart before I'd move back home.
So anyway, while I lived with grama (grama lived in louisiana...now i live in Dallas) I had lots of friends...one in particular...Lindsey.
She was homely, but a really cool girl. We hung out a lot became good friends. Her mom was divorced and she has a younger brother. She was surrounded by drugs and alcohol at home, and just...bad kids...but didn't get involved in any of that because she hung out with me so much...and I never got involved w/ that stuff.
Then I moved to Dallas...and she started hanging out with the wrong crowd..started smoking..drinking...drugs...got pregnant a few times (but miscarried b/c she cant have babies..she had a partial hystorectomy by the time she was 14...having a full one this december and she's only 20) found out last night that she's been raped 4 times...once was by her mom's boyfriend...and mom didnt' believe her...mom is in a wheelchair b/c shes sick all the time and has had over 20 surgeries...and now has no hip basically...and she drinks ALL day...doesnt even remember me being in town 2 weeks ago...and she adores me...fights with Lindsey hardcore..
Lindsey's brother is 15 now...and has pulled a gun on his mom and lindsey several times.
So a few weeks ago my mom calls me and says that she talked to Jimmy (my stepdad) and they want Lindsey to come live with them. Because my mom knows the situation she lives in and feels awful for her (and they're TIGHT on money right now and Lindsey could help by paying a little rent). She knows from what she's heard from me that Lindsey would be a GREAT kid and has SUPER potential but she can't get out of her homelife. She's got NO support system whatsoever (she wanted to go to beauty school...got the state to help pay for it but her grandparents told her that she'd never finish and she'd be wasting everyones time trying) Every time we talk, she cries to me that she wants me to come home..back to Shreveport...so she can stop hanging out with all those ppl that arent' helping her. And Im NOT moving back to shreveport.
So my parents came up with this idea...to let her move in with them...rent free the first month til she gets settled and finds a job...she can come and go as she pleases...just no guys overnight, no drugs, no alcohol..just obey the basic rules...I'm not 5 minutes down the road, but I'm only about 10-15 miles away. And mymom and i BOTH said we'll help her any way we can if we see her TRYING to stand up on her own..
She's crazy about the idea..is just waiting to get her car fixed...and is planning on moving around Thanksgiving...
But she's scared to leave her mom. Because she's in a wheelchair. But her mom can do for herself. She can drive (got a dwi a few weeks ago, drives drunkkkkkk all the time), she can cook, she can clean, its just harder. And Lindsey needs to save HERSELF. Then shes worried about her brother pulling a gun on her mom, and her not being able to defend herself. I say, that's when you call the police and have him thrown in jail.
Then I'm afraid that she'll get here and find the wrong crowd (cause I wont be around A LOT cept on the weekends mostly) and start doing drugs again...and then its in the house....for my mom to find...
bUT i WANt her to succeed...and I truely feel in my heart that if she could just get out of there that she'd be fine..i'm just nervous.
what do YOU guys think?