Everyone I met just told me how sorry they were for my loss and how if I needed anyone they would be there for me. In actuality, no one wanted to listen to how mentally devastated a fifteen year old boy was, so I was pretty much left to handle it all on my own. When I tried to talk to people they never really gave me a solution just the normal “keep strong and you can push through it in no time” speech. My brother, Forrest, had been forced to move in with his girlfriend at the time to finish up his senior year. My brother Michael moved in with some friends, dropped out of school and started to work. So not only had the most influential person in my life moved on, my family was split up, and I was forced across the country to live with an uncle I had only met one time in my life. I was forced to finish my high school career as an outcast in an entirely foreign
Everyone I met just told me how sorry they were for my loss and how if I needed anyone they would be there for me. In actuality, no one wanted to listen to how mentally devastated a fifteen year old boy was, so I was pretty much left to handle it all on my own. When I tried to talk to people they never really gave me a solution just the normal “keep strong and you can push through it in no time” speech. My brother, Forrest, had been forced to move in with his girlfriend at the time to finish up his senior year. My brother Michael moved in with some friends, dropped out of school and started to work. So not only had the most influential person in my life moved on, my family was split up, and I was forced across the country to live with an uncle I had only met one time in my life. I was forced to finish my high school career as an outcast in an entirely foreign