I looked around the room, wondering wether my life here would be permanant. I hoped not, with all my being I hoped not. I threw my bag on the bed. This place was awful. Nothing on the walls, barely anything to light the room, just a bare bulb, covered in cobwebs just about to blow. A woman walked into the room, I assumed she was the house nurse.1
"We want you to be comfortable here at the academy! It's not so bad once you've been here a while!" Her high pitched voice made me want to chuck something. 2
"Comfortable? You must be crazy! This is the bunnytiest place I've ever seen in my life!" My parents found it necessary to send me to a military academy for girls. That's how they put it. I like to say they took my life and threw it in a heaping pile of trash. That's what I am to them. Trash. Plain and simple. 3
"Hmm...while you're here, I'll see if I can find your roommate. Why don't you go ahead and unpack?" Ha! Like there was anything to unpack! I pulled some pathetic wire hangers out of my bag and hung the meager amount of clothing that I had on them and shoved them in the closet. My mom had packed my bag, just to make sure I didn't sneak anything into it that I wasn't supposed to. My parents had this CRAZY idea that if they shipped me off to military school and forgot me for the rest of my life, I might stop doing what I did. What did I do? What didn't I do is the correct question. I did drugs, I cut and burned, I was anorexic and apathetic none the less. I didn't care if my parents died. 4
"Whoa...." A girl walked into the room and looked me up and down as if I were the only male she had seen in months. Only I wasn't a guy.5
"What are you looking at me like that for?" I asked. This girl was buff. The disgusting kind of buff where they look like guys with a girls face.6
"How do you think you're going to get through this with zero body fat? I'll tell you one thing, if you don't die before your first PT is over, I'll give you 100 dollars!" Ahhh, the girl doesn't think I'm tough. I'll tell you one thing, if you lived with a brother that tried to kill everything in his path, you'd get tough.7
"I don't think you should make your bet too soon, I'm tougher than you think. You shouldn't judge people you don't know."8
"Maybe so, but nevertheless, why are you here if you're so damn skinny? I mean, most kids are fat when they come in and skinny and fit when they get out...you're like, the opposite."9
"My parents sent me here. I did 'bad things' so they thought it would straighten me out. I don't know what they were thinking though, they think this is going to straighten me out, they're craz-" 10
"Girl, you're the one who's crazy! If you don't think being in the military is going to straighten you out, you better think again. Months and months on end with someone screaming orders and calling you worthless bunny in your face is gonna straighten you up fast. I'm not even gonna scare ya with the physical training bit!" Maybe, just maybe she had a point...NOT! What does she think I am? someone who's just going to obey everything that someone tells them to do? If I don't do something they'll tell me to do pushups. But who says I'm going to do them? Who's going to make me?11
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This is going to include things about why the title is what it is, but you'll just have to keep reading to find out! And I won't continue unless I get good comments.
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