It's times like this that you cherish the most. Sitting here while the sun sets, hand in hand with the person you feel safest with while the cool wind blows through your hair. I know I am going to have to pay the price later for this, but at the end of all of this I know it's worth the pain.

"Sydney, let's run away. Right now. Let's get out of here." he begged. We've had this conversation multip...

"And you!" he shouted at me, "Where is your purity ring?"

My family was the type that fought often with each other. It was sometimes honestly hard to have a family function without some sort of fight. This one felt different though. It could have been that I was now 18 and not living under my mom and stepdads roof anymore or it could have even been the way he pointed at me with such anger in his...

"I was in our room playing video games while you were watching a movie with her in the living room. You don't see anything wrong with that?" Steven asked me.

"Steven, it's like three in the morning, can we revisit this tomorrow?" is apparently not the right way to answer that question because suddenly, he got out of bed, left his phone, took something to smoke on, and took my car keys and left th...

When you hear the phrase "I live in my van" what do you picture? I'm sure you picture a beat down vehicle with a cracked windshield that filled to the brim with clothes, trash, and backpacks. Society has taught us that being homeless means you're a bum on the street with a sign asking for money. That's not what homelessness is like for me though. I make every destination my home.

I'm pulled out o...

They found me when I was at my weakest point and that's all I know. I've been stuck here for what feels like forever with no hope left in me. This world was once a place I felt safe enough to not hide what is truly inside me but when life gives you something rare, there are people who will come in and try to suck you dry of it.

Literally.

Some time ago, years...