Original Writing - Homeless

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Andrea Gates Monday, 07 July 2003

HOMELESS

Hi, my name is Alexia. I am homeless and have been for quite a while now. It's hard to understand why, and it takes a lot to explain, but I'm pretty sure I have no other plans today, unless you do? If so I won't keep you. You don't have any plans, that's good then. Well...

It all started when I was 14, my friends turned their backs on me, never invited me out with them. I felt like I didn't belong anywhere so I got upset and depressed. First of all I just started smoking, I felt it took the stress away so I continued, I saw no harm. But then I started to become more adventurous, I got into alcohol, every week I would be getting drunk, but then the worst of it came. Whenever I sobered up or ran out of cigarettes I got more depressed than before so I started to cut myself. I found out it helped me feel happier and good about myself. So I carried on, I don't know why I did this but I felt like it was an escape. I had never had one of them before, Do you?? Oh, well if you did you would know what I meant! I carried on doing this, but no one noticed. I tried to do it so discreetly, they would all think I was a nutcase if they found out! So I never spoke to anyone.
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I knew one day someone would find out, but I pushed that thought to the back of my mind, it was all based on fear, fear was only based on adrenaline and that could be good. I switched around all my thoughts to make them easier for me to handle! I kept this up for months and months until one day I was caught. My little sister, she was only ten walked in and saw the blood, she screamed and my mum ran upstairs, she came in and saw, she told me sister to go and get the ...

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