Normally, I wouldn't update my journal until a few months later. But there has been so much going on these days that I needed to get it out of my system. You can imagine it'd been a lot on myself and *rouge-trinity

To start things off, Tina (aka ~luciapureheart ) was kicked out of her house by her own foster parents. Now, this wasn't the first time this had happened. (It happened before back in October, but she convinced her parents to let her stay longer.) But this time, her parents were serious about it.

So, last Tuesday we came by her parents house and got her (along with a few of her things) and brought her over to our place. We made her as comfortable here as possible and she needed it. After how her parents had been treating her up until then, I can't say that I like them anymore.

They often say they're good Christan people, they go to church every chance they get and donate to the needy and poor. If they're such good people, then why did they just put their foster daughter out like that and not once look back on it?

Tina's a good person, she's never gotten into any trouble whatsoever and she always did her best in school and in life. She made great grades, even got some scholarships out of it. All in all, she was the daughter anyone would hope for.

So why did it meant that her parents had to keep her under lock and key and keep tabs on her 24/7? They never once tried to even trust her to let her make her own decisions or do things her way. That's what eventually drove them to kick her out, she no longer wanted to be under their thumb all the time.

When I wanted to leave home, Dad wasn't all too thrilled of the idea at first, but he wanted me to be happy and to gain my independence so he let me go. He still misses having me around, but even he knew I couldn't live life how he wanted. I had to live my life my way.

So why couldn't Tina's parents let her do the same?

Anyway. Tina stayed with us over the past week. I enjoyed having her there, having a third friend around made things pretty fun for us. And Amber and I were more than glad she was free from her family, it meat she would be able to be happy for a change. The sad thing was her family not only kicked her out, but froze whatever bank acounts and bonds she had to her name, stating that it belong to them now.

So esentially, she was having to start all over again. What was worst was she had lost her job the same night she was kicked out...

We still made the most of it. The living room was a bit of a mess due to having move everything from the kitchen in there to await for the maintainence people to come. They were suppose to be remodeling out cabinets in the kitchen and replaced them with new ones. They never showed up last week, but I didn't care.

Tina seemed to be happy, or at least we tried to make her happy when we felt she was feeling down or sad. Her boyfriend was also worried about her, even mad at her a bit but it was because he cared so much for her.

We were going to try and get her set up with an apartment of her own so she could truely have a place of her own. Eventually, she got word from her aunt and uncle that she could come to North Carolina and stay with them. Tina wasn't sure about it at first because she didn't want to be away from her boyfriend.

You can imagine we didn't want her to leave (especially Amber). But I knew if she really wanted to go live with them, then I couldn't stop her. They were her biological family after all so I understood wanting to be closer to them. I have my own family that I need to try and get to know better.

As the week passed on, things went on like normal for us. When the weekend came along, I spent part of Saturday with my Dad. It was his birthday and I wanted to at least spend some time with him on his birtday. It was good to see him and spend time with him again.

Sunday, Amber cooked dinner at her Mom's house and we ate there. The dinner was good (she cooked a turkey on the grill that turned out perfect) and we returned home, expecting the next day to go on like the rest of the week had.

But by 7 am this morning, things had changed.

I woke up early to wait on the maintainence people (we had gotten word that they would be coming by our place to finally start work on our kitchen. When I came into the living room, I saw that the couch was bare and the front door was unlocked. Tina was gone.

I got worried at first, I didn't know where she had gone off to or why. Amber woke up soon after and showed me a text message she got. It was from Tina, stating that she had left and would be back some day and that she was safe.

We didn't understand why she just up and left us like that. A few more text messages later, she explained that she was on a bus headed for North Carolina. She said she wanted to find her own happiness, that she was on a quest for happiness. She then said she would visit us and get some of her things, but in the meantime she was safe and wanted us to understand.

Oh sure, we understood. It hurt us that she suddenly up and left without letting us know of anything before hand, or deciding on going to North Carolina anyhow without giving us a chance to get herself settle here for a while.

I remember Amber often joked about dragging us back to the apartment if either she, or me, ever decided to leave entirely. I knew it was a joke and it was her way of saying she didn't want us to leave. But mabe Tina couldn't take a joke...

I don't know...all I do know is I'm going to miss my best friend like crazy. She was like family to me, the only ther friend I had besides Amber. She was the one who I could turn to when I couldn't turn to Amber on many things. We had so much fun together and understood each other like no one else did. We went through many things that helped bonded us together a close friends/sisters.

Now she's gone...

It won't be the same without Tina around. Now I only have Amber to hang out with, she's the only friend I've got left here in Jonesville. Gina's not much of a friend since she tried to start up some unnessesary drama with us back in the summer and now Tina's gone...

I know I should respect her wishes, that as long as she's happy and safe that's all that really matters. But I can't denigh that I wish things could have gone differently than they did. It still hurts knowing she's gone...

Why Tina? why?

EDIT: A day later, we recieved word that Tina was coming home. She returned home around 9 last night, safe and sound. Much to the relief of me and Amber. :whew:

She explained why it was that she came back. Come to find out, her aunt and uncle ere running a boarding house with some...unsavory characters (by those I mean they more or less ran a hore house). Upon learning this, she easily felt that the envoirnment was too unstable for her to stay (and who can blame her >.> so she returned home.

We also learned that Jason (her boyfriend) was the one who encourage/pushed Tina into going. Sure, at first it was out of thinking that her family would be the happiness she was looking for. But after he learned of their true nature, he STILL pushed for her to give them a chance.

No. FLAT OUT NO. I wouldn't sell my soul to the devil just to stay and please my boyfriend if I knew my own family was like that >.>;;

It's that kind of attitide that's making me like Jason less and less. But all that really matters is that Tina is back safe and sound. Good to have you back Tina!

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