Save me by Brianna Kelly (if you give a mouse a cookie read aloud .TXT) 📕

im katy.. i live in wisconcent with my foster parents john and michelle. i never knew my father as he left my mother before i was born. my mum died in a car accident when i was 14, so two years ago. im always changing foster houses, i always seem to run away or they people cant handle me.ive never been in one house for longer then two months.

ive moved about 20 times in not quite two years. pretty bad i know. john and michelle are okay so far, michelle is a nurse at the local hospitial so she isnt home much, and john is unemployed. ive been with them for about two weeks.

i have my own bedroom and i get everything and everything even if i dont want it. lately though, michelle and john have been fighting quite lot. john has been going out to the pub about 5 nights a week and coming home early morning drunk. he has started drinking during the day at home and just wasting all the money he has on grog, michelle and john are not talking at the moment, but i am pretty close to michelle, we talk whenever she has spare time. i actully kinda of like it here.

one day after school i came home and put my bag down on the floor and flooped onto the couch, i am was so tired. john walked in the door and tripped over my bad.
i apologized a million times but john was mad, madder then i have ever seen him. he threw my bag at me and he kept yelling at me. he started to scare me. he walked over to me and grabbed my throat and pushed me against a wall and hit me across the face. when he let go of me, i gasped for air and slide down the wall in tears.

from then on, even over the tinyest things he would beat me, and lock me in my room for the rest of the night. this went on for about two months before michelle relised. she walked into the house early one night and found john beating me. she tryed her hardest to stop him but couldnt. that night when i was locked in my room i heard michelle and john fighting. michelle told john she was going to tell the police and he threatened that if she did, she wouldnt see the light of day again, he warned her not to try and stop him beating me too.

so it just kept going. but one night i woke up to john and michelle fighting and things smashing. this is the worst fight i have heard. about five minutes later john came into my room. i was so scared i couldnt move. he pushed me onto the bed and held my hands above my head so i couldnt get away, he undid my pants and sexully abused me for the first time. this went on for two days, he sometimes raped me up to four times a day.

one morning when i was getting ready for school, there was a knock at the door and michelle went and opened it. when she returned to john, she stood there with two guys. mr. boltin, and mr. taylor, she told him that they are the head of the foster care unit. michelle asked john were i was as they were there to check up on how everything was and how i was liking it there. john said i wasnt home and michelle just kept her mouth shut because of john. i didnt know what was going on so i walked out to where they were to get my bag.
when they saw me, they instantly knew what had been happening, and called the cops.

when the cops arrived, they took one look at me and knew. i stood there in my black ripped up skinny jeans, with a back tank top on. i had bruises all down my arms, on my chest and back, and i had a black eye and cuts on my face.
john got arrested for child abuse, sexul assult, child pornography, attempted murder from trying to drown michelle, and assulting two police officers.

i got taken back to the foster care hostel and put into the system once again. this is mainly were my story starts!

CHAPTER ONE

i was in the foster care system for two weeks before the unexpected happened.
a man showed up claiming to be my father. i had to get a test done and had to wait three days for the results. me and Steve, my so called father stood in the main office waiting for the head of the unit to return with the envelope that held the results. it was silent as he opened it. he read them and looked at me.

"Katy" he said with a pause.. "say hello to steve, your biological father".
i froze in shock and looked at my father, a tear ran down my face.

"are you okay Katy?" the head of office asked.
"i don't care what the results are, this man isnt my father, he didn't want me or my mother, he just walked out, he is a stranger to me" i replied as i broke into tears.
"Katy, sweetie. im sorry about all this, but your my daughter. and i was young and stupid when i found out your mother was pregnant and i took the easy way out. by runnning. i want to make up for lose time. i want to be a family, father and daughter" steve said with tears in his eyes.
"dont call me sweetie, you've known where i have been this whole time and you didnt bother to try and know me. i got abused and raped over and over because you didnt want me" i yelled.

steve walked over to me and hugged me, i hit him over and over in the chest but then collapsed in tears.
when i calmed down, steve and the head office man, matt, went into his office and talked. i wanted to know so badly what was going on. but i couldnt hear what was being said.
about 15 minutes later, matt and steve returned. matt came over and crouched down beside me.

"katy? can i talk to you about something please" matt said
i looked at matt then at steve then back to matt "okay" i whispered
" now you have your father here, we have to take you out of the system and because your 16 and a minor, you have to go live with your father, im sorry" matt said
"w-what?. i have to go live with him? but i dont know him, my family is here, not with him" i cried.
"im sorry katy, its the way it goes. you have no choice, you have to go pack your stuff now" matt said getting up walking into his office.

i sat there in tears then stood up, steve walked over to me.

"im sorry about all of this katy, but i promise you will like it in LA"
"LA?? your kidding right? wisconcion is my home not LA, my family is all here."
"im sorry katy. do you need help packing?"
"NO" i yelled, storming up the hallway to the room i stayed in.

it took me about 10 minutes to get all my things, i had one small bag of stuff. i walked down the hallway to return to steve.

"do you want me to grab the rest of your things?" steve asked
"rest of my things?. this is everything i own" i replied holding up my bag.
"oh. well we can go shopping for thing for you when we get home"steve said arkwardly
"you ready to go katy??"steve asked rubbing the back of his neck
"Yep, its now or never so lets go" i said in a sarcastic voice.

i gave matt a hug and then walked out of the hostel, i turned my head for one last look before getting into steves car. he had a brand new holden commodore ss. it was beautiful and i like it but i didnt let steve know.
when we started driving back to LA, i put my head phones in and played my ipod as loud as it could go, to avoid talking to steve. i layed my head back and relaxed. i looked out the window and saw a sign saying you are now leaving wisconcen. i felt tears come to my eyes so i shut them and kept them shut
next thing i knew steve was waking me up as we pulled into a high profile street with big gates at the front.

"we are almost there, we are in the street of our house" steve said nervously
"you mean we're in LA already? that was quick" i said confused
"you slept for 7 hours, so it was quick for you" he laughed

i gave a little laugh, it was hard not to laugh at that, steve looked at me with the most happyest look in his eyes. i was glad i had a father, but it didnt seem real. i dont get close to people because they always leave. i dont want to like steve even if he is my dad, i mean he hasnt been there my whole life then he expects us to play happy family.

"here we are katy" steve said pulling into a drive way "this is our house"
"this is no house, this is a bloody mansion" i said leaning forward in my seat amazed
"well this 'mansion' is were we live" he said laughing

as the car came to a stop i opened my door and got out to have a better look, steve got out and walked over and stood next to me. he took my bag and was about to say something but was inturrupted by a lady running outside to him

"oh stevey about time you got home, i missed you so much" she said giving him a big hug and kiss. she then turned to me and gave me a hug
"you must be steves daughter Katy" she said with a huge smile.
"yeah.. hi.. uhmm..umm.. sorry i dont know your name" i said guiltyly
"i'm helen, steves soon to be wife" she replied with that big creepy smile again
"helen.. right i know that, i just forgot, steve told me all about you"
"all good i hope" she laughed
"yep"i said popping the p
"lets get inside. lunch is almost ready" helen said scurrying inside

steve followed and mouthed 'thankyou' to me as i followed them inside
steve lead me upstairs and down the hallway to a door.

"this is your room, we just have to fix it up then you'll be set" steve said pushing the door open
i walked in and looked around. the room was huge, it had its own bathroom and a walk in closet. there was only a bed in the room though.

"thanks for the room steve, its big, and roomy" i said trying not to laugh
"dont worry about it, and after we have lunch im going to take you shopping for furniture, computer desk, computer, phone, clothes, and school supplies" he said with a smile
"wow, thats real nice of you but i only need a bed. i have clothes. you dont have to buy me anything."
" its not a room without the stuff. please let me, i insist on it"
"well if you insist on it, then okay, aslong as you know what your in for" i said with a cheeky smile
"okay ill put your bag on the bed and then