It all started when I was 14. I'm not very tall. I have bright green eyes, and long, wavy, dark brown hair. I lived in a not so good home. My parents beat me. You would think someone would do something but no. No one did anything! I worked in the yard 6 times a week! I didn't work on Tuesday. Thank God! They had me doing hard labor; you know fixing up the yard, getting rust off of sides of the house, that kind of stuff. They gave me limited water and food. I worked for money right? Wrong. They paid me nothing! Nothing is what my life was.
   One day June 2, I have had enough of the beatings, hard child labor, just plain life. I decided to leave that rot hole! I didn't exactly know where I was going but that was ok! I could have a nice clean life without my parents!! Wrong. I was walking down the street and saw these 4 boys, about 17 or 18, beating on this one little guy. It was horrible! He looked about my age, maybe even a little older. He has shaggy dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. He looked sort of like a little cute puppy who gets beat to much.
   I walked up to the 4 boys and said, "Hey! Stop that!!" One looked at me with his dark eyes, but didn't stop. I ran over to the 4 boys and pushed one away. He had a lot of rings on his fingers. "Well look what we have here...a girl GREASER!" He said ginning. I looked down and said "Do what you want with me, just please don't hurt him!" He laughed. The other one said,"I'm Randy. You wanna hang?" I looked at him with my big green blue eyes and screamed, "No! Now you leave that boy alone or you'll get a piece of me!" I held my fist up. They all laughed. I felt so embarrassed and stupid, but they were distracted so that was ok. That one dude with the rings pushed me down. I fell on my head. I couldn't move. I heard them all walk away laughing.
I could hear distant sounds of feet coming closer and someone saying, "Johnny! You ok?!" It sounded like someone handsome; a deep, soothing voice. It was all a bluer but I saw a face...sort of like an angels face! Johnny replied," Yeah I'm ok Sodapop, but you better check out that chick over there. She saved me from getting killed!"  When I heard Johnny say "Sodapop", I thought I was hallucinating. Soda came close to me and kneeled down and said, "Hey, you ok little one?" Boy he was handsome. I couldn't really talk, I was scared and cold. "She's shaking Soda! We better take her to your place. Darry will take good care of her." Johnny said. Sodapop replied, "That's a great idea!" Then he looks at me smiling, "We are here, we won't hurt you. They ain't gonna hurt you no more." As my eyes closed, I smiled. I knew I was going to be ok.