Chapter 3

Pearl felt like she had no one and the people living in her grandad's house treated her according to their mood. She made a wrong a decision and ended up using stuffs which she wasn't suppose to use. She became friends with her worst nightmares and always had people that were ever ready to judge her. She never once got the chance to explain herself because no one would listen to her and instead they would just keep judging her.

When she was in the seventh grade she was in a relationship and the boy was a damn player because he would propose another girls right infront of her eyes so she broke up with him which was an easy task for her because she didn't have any sort of feelings for him. She was again in an another relationship which seemed like a fairy tale in begining but as time passed the relationship became really toxic as her boyfriend was quick tempered and self destructive which drove Pearl mad and sometimes she would even have some bruises as the side effect of her boyfriend's self destructive behavior. He wouldn't harm her but his attitude sometimes made pearl to harm herself too. She soon understood how her relationship was becoming, so she broke up with him and decided to start afresh.

In the ninth grade, Pearl changed her friends and everything negative about her and she was happy because her new friends treated her really nicely and she was liking it but one day a fight broke off between Pearl and her old friends which led to a lot of hatred. Pearl had a new boyfriend who was really sweet and nice to her and she had even started living with her mom and her step dad. Her life seemed to be going really well but one day her parents found out about her boyfriend and they made her to break up with him. Things started to go west from there because she and her mom had frequent fights and one time her step dad had beaten her up right infront of her mom. Instead of sending her husband away her mom had thrown her away from home and Pearl had no option but to walk 45 minutes to her grandad's place at 10 in the night.

Things didn't stop there. After Pearl had quit smoking she had started gaining an enormous amount of weight which made people assume that it was okay to slut and fat shame her. Even her step dad used to do that, whenever his friends would come to her home he would point shamelessly at Pearl's back and then say 'She has become big' and after that day her step dad's friend would also start saying that to her. They were all crazy and sick perverts who didn't know when to stop. When she stayed at her mom's place Pearl had to always clean her home after school because her house would look like it had been hit by a hurricane and her step dad wouldn't even try to help and instead give a lame excuse like 'I have to look after the kids so I can't clean the house. I can't do two things at once.' 'Well if you can't do that then the least you can do is not make any mess or try to wash some dishes instead of piling all the dishes in the sink.' Pearl would think this to herself everyday but never said it out loud thinking that it might hurt their feelings but in the end she couldn't get time to study because right after she was done with cleaning she would have to babysit her siblings as her step dad went out and her mom wouldn't get home until late at night. Damn! Some things don't change at all, do they?