School can be really stressful especially when you have alcoholic parents 2 jobs no money and 4 siblings. There is Brody who is 13, Lilly who is 4, Carter who is 7, Addison who is 2 and finally me Jennifer who is 17.

I have to pay all the bills and buy whiskey for my parents. So I have no leftover money for myself.

When I was little I did not have any responsibilities, then my mom married my dad. My dad got my mom hooked on wine, beer now whiskey. Now both of My parents are full alcoholics.

I need to do well in school so when I grow up I can provide for my siblings. I have a lot resting on my shoulders but I’ve gotten used to it.

School was getting a lot harder it’s the first test of the year and I pulled an all-nighter studying for the test. I thought I had it all under control. I got my page back and I just started crying. I got a D on the test as Mrs. Johnson was walking by she said“maybe you should take up some tutoring.” She wrote down a phone number then the bell rang dismissing us from school as I walked home I was wondering if my drunk parents were going to beat me when I walked through the door. Then I remembered I just didn’t need to tell them. I walked home went to my room and closed the door to muffle some of the yelling of my parents wanting whiskey and beer and called the phone number to set up a time for tutoring.

“Hello this is Josh Charlton what can I do for you,” a deep voice said

“God dammit” I yelled I just got yelled at by my parents for using profanity but yet they use it all too much

“Um are you, ok miss,” Josh said

“Yea yea I’m fine I just did not expect you I’m Jennifer I was wondering if you could tutor me for math”

“Yea, of course, what about tonight”

“Sorry no I have to babysit”

“Where maybe we could study there”

“No sorry I can’t tell you that that would be breaking privacy”

“Is it at 274 Palmer st”

“How did yo-“

“Because I live there I hired a babysitter because I had something to do tonight but then it got canceled and I forgot to terminate the request”

“Oh ok,”

“So do you want to come to my place to study?”

At that point I was red all over I was screaming in my head omfg the hottest guy in school asked me to come to his house!!

And me just trying to sound cool just says

“Yea sure what time do you want me over? I’m available basically whenever so you pick a date. Wait I mean like date as in like time not as in like… well going out or anything just you know...yea.”oh my god why did I have to say that come on Jennifer I thought

“What about tonight at 7 I will come pick you up and we can go to Burger King or Taco Bell,”

“Let’s do Taco Bell because I live near there we can just meet up there.” He chuckled a little.

“Ok” I hung up with a smile, And me just being well myself I screamed and flopped on my bed. I don’t know why but I shaved my legs and put on my favorite dress it is black on the top with a hot pink skirt. I put on my black flats that I wear every day then I still don’t know why but I curled my dirty blonde hair. Even curled it still reaches the bottom half of my back. And 45 minutes later I grab my leather jacket and head out the door. I get on my skateboard and ride about half a mile to Taco Bell then I remember I FORGOT MY BOOKS AND ITS 6:59! Josh pulls up smiling he sits at a table and pulls out his books and i think this is going to be fun.