Chapter 11

As afternoon arrived, the doctors released me saying I was now fine to go as long as I applied some gel to the scars they would heal pretty quickly.

Aunt Maggie irritated me with her pestering as I knew she only wanted my money. I was also angry with her for preventing me from being killed as I could have been gone by now.

We arrived home and I saw that monster husband still there and he sneered at me. I ignored him and went to my room where I found the room in complete ruin. With some of my most expensive clothes missing and I already knew the culprit. That monster had sold my clothes!

Feeling angry and frustrated as tears threatened to come out of my eyes as this was all I had left, I decided to talk a walk somewhere, anywhere, to calm down.

I then found a nice place surrounded by trees and went to sit there.

Tears started flowing down my face as I started thinking about how my mother would have been busy trying to make sure I had the best 18th birthday today. But here I was, broken and bruised.

I could not go on living like this, I needed something to distract me and relieve me of this immense pain that still filled my heart. I then remembered the address given to me by gangster boy and decided to go there.

If it was a place where they planned to kill me so be it as I wanted to die. It's not as if anyone would actually miss me. I arrived at the shady-looking place which was an abandoned old building and guys were smoking, some playing poker, etc.

I passed by them and went further inside and saw gangster boy who introduced me to his friends as rich boy and I found his name was Ricky.

Ricky then took something out of his pocket, and I realized it was drugs.

"Here try it, it takes away all the pain and leaves you feeling high," Ricky said handing me a cut.

As I looked at it, I knew I should refuse and leave this minute as that is what my conscience was telling me, and I had been educated many times at school about drugs being bad, but I did not care anymore. If this could make me forget the pain, then so be it.

I took it and sniffed it and from then on, I knew I was hooked as I forgot all my troubles, I was floating in high air. So, on my 18th birthday, I used my first drugs and joined Ricky's crew.

Since I was now 18 and an adult, I then decided that I wanted to move out and go find my own place where I could do my drugs freely, all day.

So, in my drugged state, I went with Ricky and his crew to collect my things. The monster, Aunt Maggie`s husband, tried to stop me but was threatened by Ricky's crew and therefore did nothing.

I then told them about the beating he gave me and so he received the same one he did to me from Ricky's crew. Aunt Maggie had screamed at first until I had told her that they were not going to kill but we're just giving him a taste of his own medicine.

"You women beater, how does it feel to get the same beating, you give others. Now know this if I hear you have beaten your wife aunt Maggie again, these boys you see here, will come and give you a much painful beating. You hear me never lay a hand on that woman ever again!" I said kicking him in the stomach as he lay there quickly nodding.

What a wimp and this was my way of returning Aunt Maggie the favor as she had once tried to prevent the monster from hitting me.

"Bye, there goes your money huh, looser!" I said to the monster as I left the gates with all my things but not before secretly giving Aunt Maggie some money I still had left from my old life to use for herself.

She looked at me surprised as I gave her a bunch of money which I had been keeping hidden in the cover of my tablet. Apparently, Mr. Johnson had sold the assets quickly, paid the debt and the leftover, he had put it in my account and messaged me on that exact first day I came here. That is why when I went to see that witch Claire, I had left him busy on the phone sorting things quickly out.