My name is Timmy, I'm 8 years old and I'm in 4th grade. This is going to be a little story about my less than traditional family. Most of my friends live with their mom, their dad, and their siblings. My family looks a tad bit different. I live with my mother, her boyfriend Mike and my older brother Cameron occasionally.  Some kids my age hate school, but school is where I'm the most comfortable

See you tomorow kids!

I used to get a lot of questions from the others kids about why my "Dad" doesn't look like me since he's white and I'm brown and I never knew how to answer them except to tell them that, that wasn't my dad. But I used to avoid the question completely because I knew they'd ask me about where was my "real" dad and I really didn't have the answer to that one. They stopped asking after my mom's 3rd boyfriend started picking me up from school.

I love hanging out with my brother, we used to do everything together when my dad was around. We'd go to the park, we'd go to the movies, we'd play cool videos games way past my bedtime. When my dad left I started seeing less and less of him. I figured it's because he'd officially become a teenager with attitude as my mom would put it and with that came a loss of interest in me. My mom clearly favorites me even if she won't say so out loud, I think it's because my brother looks so much like my dad...

Hard headed just like your joke of a dad. It would be easier if he took you with him...

I need to get out of here

My mom is very hard on Cameron. Cameron is always upset when he's at home because my mom is mean to him. My mom is less mean to me because she still see's me as a child. I'm afraid that one day I too will be bullied by my mom. Cameron gets so upset sometimes that he doesn't do his school work anymore or talk to anyone for that matter. I wish I could help him, but he's closed himself off to me too.