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Getting home: Tiny
Logan comes home and Tiny jumps up on him (Tiny is Logan's golden retriever). Logan loves Tiny more than anything else. He gives Tiny a dog treat then starts on his homework. -
Mom comes home
Logan's mother comes home after 6. She is a nurse and works at the hospital. She starts to make dinner, Logan goes in his small room and starts to listen to music. He ends up falling asleep. -
The start of the weekend: AKA hell
As Logan walks home he thinks about why he hates the weekend and why he hates his parents. School just got over with for the weekend and Logan has to stay home in the house he hates with his abusive father. Its like his own personal hell. -
Waking up
Logan fell asleep and when he woke up it was early in the morning. He went to go and get something to eat. When he sat down and started eating his dinner, his father woke up. Logan's father starts yelling at him, then he physically abused Logan. -
Its Monday: back to school
Logan goes back to school, as if nothing happened over the weekend. He didn't have any friends at school. When he walked into the math for class, he saw that someone was sitting in his seat. It was a new girl and she was kind of pretty. She gets up from Logan's desk and he noticed that she was carrying all of her books with her. He picks up her books and helps her find another desk to sit in. -
Its Monday: Lunch
Logan is sitting by himself and he sees the same girl from math class. She walks through the lunch line and doesn't know where to sit for lunch. She walks up to Logan and sits down. All of a sudden she starts talking about math. Logan tells her, "Wait! I don't even know your name and why are you sitting down at my table?" She tells him that her name is Jenna, she is new, he was the only one nice to her today, and she wants to sit with him (that way they both aren't sitting by themselves) -
Jenna: Friend
Jenna would sit with Logan at lunch, everyday from then on. They told each other everything (Logan even told Jenna that his father beat him). Logan had made a friend, maybe even a best friend. They have each others backs. -
Jenna: Worries about Logan
Logan comes to school with bruises on his body. Jenna tells him to go to the doctor, but he says he is not hurt. Jenna can't help worring about Logan, he is her friend and she cares about him. -
Social Services
Social Services recived a complaint about abuse. A Social worker and the police showed up at Logan's house. They had to take his parents down town for questioning. Logan was put into foster care, he was going to a "new home". Home. Logan thought about what his new home would be like. Would it be the family he never had? Logan could only hope. The he thought about Tiny, he had to come with Logan. -
A Disappointment: Part 2
Maybe it was only my father who thought that I was a disappointment. Perhaps it was actually my father who was the disappointment; he was the one who got drunk every night, the one who didn%u2019t go to college, the one who beat me for no reason, and the one who failed at everything. I had finally realized that it wasn%u2019t me who was a disappointment, it was my father.
In some people%u2019s eyes you may be considered a disappointment, in other%u2019s you aren%u2019t. It just depends on whose eyes you look through. -
A Disappointmant: Part 1
As I got into the police car and was taken to my home, I remembered the last thing my father said to me as he got into the police car.
%u201CLogan, I can%u2019t believe you would do this to your own father, you%u2019re a disappointment.%u201D That was the last thing he ever said to me, %u201Cyou%u2019re a disappointment.%u201D
I thought about it, only my father thought of me as a disappointment; my teachers didn%u2019t, Tiny didn%u2019t, I hoped my foster parents wouldn%u2019t, and Jenna my best friend didn%u2019t.
