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Yes I Was a Runaway Hi my name's Andrea. Living a life as a runaway is not easy, especially when you're young with no experience about the real world. I know cause I ran away 3 times and Im only 17 years old. The last time I ranaway it was 2 weeks ago. See it all started like this.... Me and my mom havent been getting along for awhile now, so one night I had it cause she told me that it's my fault her and my stepfather arent getting along and my fault the household was tearing apart. So I left the next day with my friends Ryan and Krystal. We went to West Palm Beach because I knew alot of people there. Well when we got there everybody I knew wasn't picking up the door, maybe because it was 2:00 in the morning, so we ended up sleeping in the car. The next day we went back to Fort Pierce where we came from to say hi to our friends. Thing were alright until we got stuck in Fort Pierce with no way back to Palm Beach. I was scared because I knew the cops were looking for me in fort Pierce, not only because I was a runaway , but because I violated Probation. The time I was in FT. Pierce cops were up my ass all the time. I had to go from place to place , to the point that I dyed my hair and I took off my braces myself so they wouldn't recognize me in the streets. Then things started going real bad . Me and Krystal got into a fight and Ryan went to jail. I thought that I was going to end up on the streets for real cuz Ryan was the one who would feed me and everything . So I called my cousin who lives in Palm Beach to pick me up. I thought everything was gonna be alright once I leave Fort Pierce , BUT I WAS WRONG. When we got to Palm beach nobody wanted to help us cause nobody wanted to get involved with the cops. So we asked everybody for change to use the payphone , until we bumped into these two boys. They said that we could use their phone so we followed them to their house. They tried to drug us up and tried to rape us. They TRIED>that was the keyword cause I hit him in his face and ran like 20 blocks to this guys house I know. So there he let me and my cousin stay just one night then he kicked us out. We felt like dying cause we had no support from anybody except my aunt and my boyfriend Chris. And we had no money for food. I went almost 2 weeks barely eating. The worst part is that I ran way from my mom but in the long run I was running away from the cops cause I knew that if they would catch me I would be locked up for a while. I couldnt take it no more ...... friends who turned their back on me, no food, no money, no family, almost lost my boyfriend, almost got raped, and alot of guys offering money for sex , cops looking for me, it was all to much in just 2 weeks. So I talked to my boyfriends mom and she convinced me to call my family and go back home. So I did. I called my stepdad and met him somewhere to go back home. Yeah I was a bit nervous but I had to cause I dont know what would of happened to me. Now my family and good friends are really disapointed in me. The worst part is that all I can do is wait and see what the cops are gonna do with me.
All I can say to young people like me is that you have one life. Live
it to your best cause running away will just ruin it. Its not easy out
there when you have no money to support yourself. Even if your family
are the biggest pain in the asses just deal with it because teenagers
aren't meant for the streets. |