Category : Stories

Sub Category : Drama

     Today I saw a woman crying. She wasn't just crying, she was crying her heart out. I looked to her right and saw two little children holding onto her shoulder. 
      "Olivia, we need to get going." Mother pulled me towards her way leaving the woman and her two children behind crying. Seeing them out there like that made me cry myself. I wondered "Did they have a home to go to?"
     At home I was in silence. Mother looked at me and asked me what was going on. So I told her "Mother, I saw a woman today. She had two children with her. They were on the sidewalk by the dumpster." Mother sighed. "Liv, not a lot people have a home. That's why they live on the streets. It's only up to them to find a way out of that." I looked down squeezing my fingers. "And what if they don't, Mother? What's going to happen to them if they don't find a home to live in?" Mother sighed again. "Well..." She hesitated. "they will just stay homeless. They won't have anything to eat and starve in the nights. They will freeze to death. Flint, Michigan isn't the warmest place around." She hesitates again. "They could die..." I gasp. 
     That woman and her two children could die. I tried to tell Mother about them again, but she went onto bed. Ever since Father left, we used to live at Grandmother and Grandfather's house for a while, then we moved into this house....
     Could it have been that we were almost homeless....My heart kept racing. I didn't exactly think of it that much, but now I realize it. All I could think about was that woman and her children. It's nighttime...they could be starving...This was making me cry. These tears won't even pry myself to sleep. So I got up and carefully opened the door as it slowly creaked and took one second look at Mother's room then I went into the pantry. I went into the closet then I went out into the night....

To be continued....