Hi, I am Emma i am 14 years old dealing with a lot of junk with my family. I have 2 sisters but they are my half sisters because my step dad is their real dad. My mom married him when i was 5 but I've known him since I was 3 so he has always been my dad and I call him that. I play volleyball, softball, and just a little bit of basketball. In a few days I'm going to be a freshmen in highschool. Now here's where the story begins...

 2011 My mom gets married to my step dad named... Jake we move down to florida because his family lives there (I was born in Tenneesee go vols) So we move to a bad part in florida and he get drunk and "high" almost every single day. He didn't have a job, and my mom was the only provider then my sister was born when i was 6, a few years later we move to a better city in florida and Jake stopped doing all the bad stuff and he got a job, but during all this he would verbally abuse me and my sister anytime we did something wrong. But we were all still very happy that he stopped his stuff Dcps came to our house one day because he looked off when he tried picking me up... at 8:30 am he thought it was night. I ran at school during the mornings because mom had to work early and i liked running at the end of the year i ran 80 miles in total and i was in the 3rd grade and proud. but when we moved to the better city he started smoking "things" and the smell was horrible, so he started drinking with it again AND he had pills for his back that he abused. the worst year was 2017-2018... 2 men came to our house with a gun threating to shoot Jake my sister was 6 and i was 12... I still remember it happening right outside my door, all the yelling, and all the crying. (It was also 2 days before christmas) Nobody was hurt that day thank goodness but little did we know that a few days before that Jake was texting someone... August 2018 my chiwenie (i can't spell) got ran over because jake was talking to someone... one week later we found out he had been cheating for 8 monthes all while abuseing everyone verbally and mentally/emotionally. and once physically he pushed and shoved my mom down on the floor hard when he saw a text thinking she was cheating when she was not but he was. Also, while Jake was cheating my mom was pregnant with my other sister. Me, my mom, and my sisters were supposed to move this summer but my mom doesn't have any money so she can't do anything... She's stuck here with almost no help, we have no family down here on my moms side. What's worst is that I think he's cheating again and he don't care about us anymore. He never says Hi to me he just cusses at me calles me names says I'm fat when i try to get a snack when i weigh 110 is that really fat? Oh, and thats not all my best friend lives in horrible conditions most of her siblings have problems, and she is constantly in deppression but denies it. I never tell her this stuff because she is going through enough already. And now I have to start High school. but saying all this out loud just makes me feel worse because there are thousands of more kids that have way worse problems then me and here I am complaining...

Thank you for reading this is my first time on here...