Kayla Smith

The Truth

Let me tell you the truth, about a woman who lived a double life, not only to herself but too the world. Kaitlyn aka Kat was a junior in high school, going to school everyday living a normal life, or so everyone thought. 4 younger sister 2 older brothers a single mother and an absent father. Sounds like a normal situation right? Well it wasn’t, Kaityln was used to it just being her and her second oldest brother before her mother decided to have 4 more girls after her, which meant she had to grow up a little faster and got blamed and mistreated when things went wrong. Even when Kaityln tried her best nothing was ever good enough for her mother and her father (when he did come around) didn’t give a damn. Only thing he was good for was bossing her around and physically and mentally trying to break her down as best as he could. Of course Kaityln being the sensitive soul she was tried her best not to let it show, but every night she cried herself to sleep until her eyes were red and puffy and her throat swollen to the point that it hurt to swallow. She had no real friends, no family members around her age to talk to..no outlet. She could only talk to her grandmother to somewhat ease the pain but she never discussed too much. Only enough to relieve some of the inner pain for the moment. Everyone knows that those who smile and joke the most are usually the ones in the most pain, and that’s exactly who Kaityln was, the girl who made everybody laugh and smile, the class clown, the jokester, the most likely to be a comedian. But deep down inside that was only a front to mask the pain of bottled up emotions, to mask the thoughts of wanting to commit suicide, to make the pain of not ever being good enough TO ANYONE.