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CHAPTER 2 - New Dad

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His name was Frank. DeAnna didn't even like the name. He had a daughter Shelia who was 16. DeAnna just turned 7. They lived on the other side of the school she had moved from before in Garden City. Her mom had meet him from Kroger's where she worked as a cashier and he worked as a truck driver for the company. He was really old. He had retired from the police force.
Right off the bat DeAnna didn't like him AT ALL! He seemed mean and evil to her. Even though she could tell he was trying to be nice to her and her brothers.
DeAnna had to share the bedroom with her brothers. They had a bunk bed and she had a twin. Sheila had a room of her own.
Well at least she still had Dusty she thought to her self. But DeAnna didn't like sleeping in the same room as her brothers. Bobby would pick on Larry all the time. Larry had a Bozo the clown doll and Bobby would take it at night and shake it in Larry's face saying "Bozo is coming to get you tonite!
Larry would go to sleep but wake up yelling about Bozo getting him in his dreams. Bobby was always smart mouthed to them both. He got on DeAnna's nerves.
Frank and her mom got married after the divorce from her dad was final. And it wasn't long her mom was pregnant. She had a little sister named Denise. DeAnna and her brothers help with playing with her or walking her around the block in the buggy. DeAnna like that because she had a aunt Marilyn who was only 3 months older than her, another aunt Susie a year old than the both of them and a uncle David that was 2 years younger than DeAnna. Plus two more older aunts and two more older uncles. They all would come to visit when her to go swimming they lived at the end of the block. She hung out with her aunt Marilyn and Susie all the time now.

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"DeAnna!" Her mom called her one evening. "Me & Frank are going out tonite with Uncle Les and Aunt Sherry. Shelia is gonna babysit so you & your brothers behave. And help listen out for Denise. She should sleep until we get back." She said as they walked out the door.
Shelia was upset. She had plans with her girlfriend Linda.
"Well, lets make some popcorn & lemonade." Shelia said.
They all gathered in the front room and she told they spooky stories. Then they got to play around tingling each other on the floor. Shelia tingled her so bad she couldn't breathe. She thought she was gonna die. She finally stopped and rolled over.
But she just laid there. "Come on Sheila get up!" DeAnna exclaimed. Sheila just laid there with her eyes shut.
"Get up!" DeAnna started shaking her to get up. But she just laid there.
"Oh my God! Something is wrong!" She said to her brothers. She ran into the kitchen to call her grandma's down the road. But the phone was busy.
"The phone's busy! I'm gonna run down to grandma's. You two stay here. I'll be right back."
It was dark outside. But DeAnna was so scared she just ran as fast as she could. When she ran into the house she was out of breathe.
"What's wrong?" Aunt Jo asked walking over to her.
DeAnna was so out of breathe she could hardly talk. "It's..................... Sheila!"
"Where is she?" Aunt Jo asked as Aunt Marilyn & Uncle David walked into the room.
"H...O..M....E!" She could still hardly talk she was so scared.
"Come on lets go see what's wrong." DeAnna followed Aunt Jo out the door into the car.
They walked into the front room and her brothers were sitting next to her scared.
"Sheila!" Aunt Jo called to her as she picked her head up.
"EMMMMMMMMMMMM" Sheila moaned in her sleep.
"What's wrong with you?" Aunt Jo asked. But Shelia was out.
"Well, I'll sit here with you's until your mom gets back. But it's getting late and you kids need to go to bed."
"Ok!" They said as they hugged her goodnight.
The next day DeAnna found out that Sheila drank a whole bottle of cough syrup. She had pasted out.

DeAnna had a problem with wetting the bed. She hated it but didn't know how to stop it. One nite when she climbed into bed Frank came into her room. He had a butcher knife in his hand. He walked over to her. DeAnna was scared.
"You see this knife?" He asked her. She could tell he had been drinking. There were nights he didn't come home driving the truck. She loved them nights. Whenever he was home he'd drink all night long.
"Yes!" DeAnna said shaking her head.
"I'm putting this under your bed. And if you pee the bed it is gonna cut off your pee pee!" He said as he put the knife under her bed. DeAnna started crying she was so scared.
"You don't need to be crying. Just don't pee the bed!" He said as he walked out the bedroom and shut off the light.
DeAnna hugged Dusty and cried herself to sleep. She hoped she wouldn't pee.
The next morning she woke up and her bed was wet. She had peed. She looked under her bed and the knife was still there. It didn't cut off her pee pee!



That weekend her and her brothers were going to visit their dad. Their grandparents were taking them to the Detroit Zoo. They waited in the front room watching tv until they got there to pick them up. When they came in they all three jumped up to run in the kitchen to go. They were all excited. Grandma always spoiled them. But Denise, who was 2 at the time, graped DeAnna's arm and started crying. She didn't want her to go.
"No, Denise! You got to stay here!" DeAnna said as she pulled away from Denise. Denise kept crying and ran after DeAnna. DeAnna ran around the coffee table.
"Mom! Help!" She called to her mom as Denise chased her round the table. DeAnna's mom walked into the front room and picked up Denise. Denise started screaming as they went out the door to leave. DeAnna hated leaving her and wished she could go with them. But knew her dad wouldn't like that.
They always loved going to visit with their grandma. She was so good to them. And they got to get away from the beatings from Frank. For Christmas they got to spend a whole week with their dad and grandparents.

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