It all started when i was 8 getting ready for my first day of school I was excited my mom did my hair and I picked out my outfit it was a lovely black dress. As I boarded the bus I sat next to my friend Mabel we were talking as always and we got off there was Evelyn waiting for us we walked to our lockers giggling and laughing she was my best friend in the whole wide world. I got to class sat in my seat excited that Evelyn was in class that’s when the teacher came in a women who had blonde hair and her name was Ms. Ackersen weird last name I thought so she introduced herself she was really nice then she took role call Evelyn rose she said here Evelyn said. Ashley H here I said after we had fun. After a few weeks was fun until we got math homework I was not the strongest in math. My mother wasn’t helpful since she had different education in her time also she was born in Mexico I was half Mexican and my dad was born in Guatemala but anyway in the mornings my dad would get upset when I couldn’t do something right I was struggling in math but when he was in school he was second best in all his classes getting all As and being popular while I was the one struggling with some of my classes and not being popular it hurted a lot. Once he hit me really hard that my backed ached he put froze peas on my back apologizeing many times I was just sitting there saying nothing I shoved my folder into my backpack and left for the bus I had to act like I was okay in reality I was crying inside.

 Even once my mom was helping me with math at night she was getting frustrated with me and she hit me on the face leaving a bump on my lip while my older brother and my mom were fighting i was just sitting there listening to them maybe “she just can’t read” yelled my brother. “ She’s not evening trying yelled my mother in Spanish. Then we went to bed I was crying. The next morning my mom drove me to my dad work place so he could take me to school you see my mother worked at 5 so we had to get up early so my mother could take us to my dad. As my dad came out to see us he saw my lip and asked what happened I pointed at my mom and got in the car my dad looked at mom and walked in his car and we drove to school. After school she asked did anyone asked about your lip? No I said  after that it was silent. Everyday the same thing but sometimes it wasn’t bad. I hated coming home on Fridays that means my dad would drink I hated when my dad is drunk he doesn’t get physical never has hit us when he is in that state he just yells at us. When I entered third grade I never brought homework home I would hide it or say I already finished it but when conferences happend my teacher Mr Fisher told my parents of my missing work they were so mad that I had to do all of it during spring break but they never asked why I lied. 

 Fourth grade everything was normal until a new girl came her name was Emily we became friends until one day she and Evelyn stopped talking to me I would all ways see them playing together at recess with Mabel i felt left out and forgotten but I had my other friend Amirah she was the one who was obsessive and protective. We were playing one day when Evelyn and Emily came over to us and said “Ashley why don’t you hang out with us” they asked and I said I’m hanging out with Amirah they were turning red and yelled” but your our friend not hers” and I said no your not you haven’t even talked to me since the first day when she came. They walked away without saying anything. I was about to cry but I held it in. At the end of the year it was yearbook signing Emily wanted to sign mine but I walked away.