I lived in a very toxic house and I was never safe to say besides when i was in school. My house was basically a dump. My mom was a drug addict heroin , coca ext and my dad died when I was 12 so I fell under her custody . Know a thing my mom used to do was make me work for her since when i was with my dad i had a successful business were i sold art and i was a big part in the furry community and i sold shirts with my own design , but know that i had moved in with her she took all my money and use it on her drugs and basically i had to hide money to be able to eat. My school was not a very good one but it did have a field on the back where some would go and use drugs , but it was a way to just be alone . I had an idea to run away since i could sustain myself with the money i from the small business i had but the problem was that it was under her name so when i was 13 i started using a different source of money gain by instead of using paypal i asked the people to send it in the mail .
So my mom wouldn't notice me keep using paypal on the side but i was saving money and putting it under my dresser. A lot happened at 13 but mainly my mom had decided to get a puppy so now i had another responsibility to take care of when i eventually run away each week the money came in 10,30,50,100 i had to use some on food and some for the dog . She was a small baby dog but she was growing fast. I had an idea of the species, maybe a rottweiler / golden retriever. All I knew was that she was a big dog which was actually not that bad since I was safe with a big dog near me instead of being alone . By age 14 I had about 1,000 which was enough to run away but i had to figure out when to do it so I had an idea. I told my mom that it was to bring your pets to school so u had to take the dog she was not convinced at the start but she believed me . I felt sad but excited. The idea was to take my phone and charge / use it in different public places like walmart , libraries and coffee places similar .
It was a crazy idea but i wanted to get as far as a cloud from florida since my whole family lived there . My main pln was to go to Texas but I was not sure . It was the day i was going to run away as always she was not home yet so i took the dog and ran. My mom got government help for her disability but I didn't care. All I wanted to do was run away and be in a sorta safe place . I lived in Opa Lock a city in florida and i ended in David i keep running but stopped at a DD to get something to eat and i gave food to the dog .Then i did something that was not the most smart i posted a tweet of me and my dog after running away and somehow i had gone viral , but of course i didn't know this until my next stop . At the time i had just gotten my food and feed the dog . the farther away i was form florida the better i walked all the way to Coral spring while i was doing that i realized how crazy it was me a 14 year old girl out in the streets with a dog and 0 parental supervision .
I decided to not call the police and actually i was pretty happy to be alone and even do it was scary it was so exciting since i could do anything that i wanted so i decided to take the metro to north carolina with my dog while we were walking to the station i noticed i never named her so i named her luna . By then it was already about 2:30 i was very close to the station so i went faster the metro left at 3: 30 so when i got there i checked my phone my plan was to only use it in stations to not waste charge it i also had the notifications off for my socials so i didn't notice that i had become viral so to follow up i took another picture and added the story but i blurred the background so nobody could track me down . I got on the metro and calmed down there. I knew that my mom couldn't find me. I had packed a backpack full of clothes, money and dog food. I also had taken my tablet and deleted my paypal account so she couldn't take my money.
I planned to find some time to make a makeshift house so I planned on buying a tent and one of the hammocks that you can put anywhere and like in some area of flat land with grass . It felt like a movie but it was real. I planned on calling the police on her once I was stable but I was not sure , I was also worried about school since I wanted to go to college and be a psychologist but I had no plans on actually going to school after I ran away . With all that thinking time passed fast but the ride was still around 4 hours. I did a bit of commission work but i was still stressed since know the police would be looking for me and they could find me at any time . People came in and out i worked for a long while on doing commission work but got bored , I played with my luna and gave her a treat. I look older then what i actually am so nobody was that suspicious on me . I started thinking on were i would do my necessities like pooping and showering but i guess it was not that important.
By 5 a clock i started getting calls from mom but i didn't answer instead i blocked her she didn't deserve an explanation on y i left she was a horrible person and she needed actual meds and actual mental help but that was in my past . We had reached georgia so i got off and when to walmart to buy a tent they were actually pretty cheap so i put im my cart . The anxiety i felt being alone was really bad but at least i had luna , She was in the cart with the tent . I plugged my phone and called my friends. They were really excited for me. I mean having no parental supervision was every kid's dream. We chatted for a long while and I got food in the subway in the walmart . I boght a tent,hammock and pack of matches i want to pay the lady at the cashier dint say much besides looking weirded out by the fact i had somuch cash .
I boght the stuff and whent on the hunt to find a place to put it and then i rememperd pasing by a large grass infested area that looked deserted so if nobody was owning it then i could use it . I walked all the way there with the cart by then it was night time it was cold but not to bad luna was walking next to me she probably had no idea of what was happening i walked and walked to see if i could find the place luna looked tired so i put her in the hart and covered her with the hoodi i was wearing she fell almost immediately but i was able to find the place after about and ahour of walking ti had almost a 4 feet tall grass but i could see that in he back there was a coved place were i could put the tent so thats what i did .
I used to live in Puerto rico when i was 4-9 so i was used to walking miles and miles because there was no car and i as used to living on scraps i was very independent so even do it was scary i kinda didn't really care. I set up everything and whent to sleep in the tent with luna . The next day i walking with luna to walmart but know i had a bit more energy i knew that in a week or so they would start looking for me and most walmarts have posters of people missing so i decided to give myself a look change . I had long curly brow hair with with brown eyes and aldo i cant do anything about the eyes i could cut my hair and paint it so thats what i went to do . I started walking with luna she was such an adorable dog I had never seen her that happy ,but In about a week i would have to to a different city i was thinking to go to tennessee .
I looked on my phone and the tweet had become even more popular other people that had also ran away were tweeting about it to so i took another pic of me and my dog and blurred the back saying ¨might move to another country who knows¨ I played with luna i checked how much money i had and it had decreased by alot since the tent was 150 and the hammock wa 200 but i still had for months but i didnt know what to do for the money problem since i didn't have a paypal account but that was a problem for later . I got the mall and got a lot of cans of soup vitamins and dog food hair coloring and a pair of scissors and payed for it but the cashier asked for my age after scanning it and i of course lied but it was a close call.I put it all in my back pack and left .
Luna was getting bigger and bigger each day so i was going to need to give her more and more food . I decided that the best idea was to shave all my hair off and paint that amount of hair green so thats what i was going to do i was walking with luna and decided the best idea what to go to tennessee nut of that i would need to pack everything up and find a train to get there so before that i wanted to at least take a few pictures for my¨ fans¨ it was not good that i had such a big fan bage since it was easier to find me but i could spread awareness on the subject so i decided to post a few more pics and start packing but first i took a bunch of pics of me with long hair so people don't recognize me .
I grabbed the scissors and cut it all off it was actually a real life since i had forgotten to bring my hair brush at least i brogh my touth brush going back i cut all my hair off and bleached it , after that i watched it on a near by river and then painted it green . I felt so happy that i finaly could paint my hair since i always wanted to but mom didnt let me . I had not showered in days so i really wanted it to rain to be able to do that the good thing was that it said it was going to rain tonight so i was finally able to feel clean .
I had another pair of clother so when it started to rain i wanted to shower and wach the dirty clothes in the river .It was around 5 pm by then and i feed luna i played around with her and did a bit of art . I had not gone to the store so my phone was on 20 % wich is not the best so i eat some soup and went on a walk to see if a could find another store to go to but this time i left luna in the ¨house¨ so i whent walking alone there weren't many stores but there was a small walmart a few miles away so i when in and well thats when i saw the poster of my face on the wall with a bunch of other kids who are missing it was time to move to tennessee . I looked very different because of the hair change but my face still looked like me . The good thing was that they used a really old pic and it didn't look like me.I had only 500 dollars so i was only going to use that for food . i had only been 5 days but if felt like a month i charged my phone and posted another pic.
I was basically a celebrity i didn't notice how many kids lived in toxic house houlds alot of kids had reached out to me on how to escape especially lgbtq folks when there parents didnt accept them / threaten them and people whos parents didnt give them there basic necessities but a few parents keep saying i was trying to take there kids away form them and telling them that they should run away since its clearly not true since all i sayed was that if you live in a really toxic environment wich shows how people always try to make others look bad.And how they try to make even the most innocent and nice people look bad .
I charged the phone and answered some tweets and helped some people plan there escape . I got up and left i started running back to the tent / house , I never want to go with her and i dont want to be in the horrible system that is adoption so i went back fast it was already 8 so it was about to rain . Luna was laying in the tent i called her out and started taking the tent down it started raining the cold yet refreshing water fell on my dirty skin . i took the tent down and put the hammock back in its box i put it all in the cart i stole from walmart. I had talked with my friends and i told them my plan and they were supportive i didn't need the hammock anymore so i gave it to a homeless i saw walking by. I went next to the stream and I watched my clothes and myself to . The rain felt welcoming i cleansed my dirty skin and then i grabbed the umbrella i had from when i first left . I already had everything packed so I called luna and started walking to the metro stop .
If i was stoped at the metro im not sure what i would do since there was already posters of me and everybody knew me . The good this was that because of the hair change nobody aspects me to be me. Luna was wet and she probably start to stink but that didnt matter she was safe i was kinda safe . The police was looking for me and i knew this but i didnt think they would find me but just incase i turned off my phone completely . By half way i took the tent out of the cart and left the cart there , I was doing a light jog there since the train left at 8 and the walk was more then 10 miles so me and luna were running to the train stop .The good thing was that we got there luna was tired but we had a whole adventure ahead of us but i knew that she could fall asleep for most of the train ride .
The train arrived and i got in it there was an officer and next of him there was a missing poster of me , Anxiety filled my body but i got in the train and sat next to luna .The trains were always empty only a few people so it was safe for most of the time ,but if i were to be recognized i was screwed since i had nowhere to go . That was y i planed to move to NY because theres a lo more density and they couldn't find me that fast but then was the problem if to me assaulted what would i do call the police ? the plan was nice but i was safer in the rurals and if some one were to touch me luna would save me. I looked around and though would i have to me on the run forever i needed help on money and a stable area to live in . NY was a good though but everything was expensive and it was all city so i would have to stay somewhere else like main,kentucky,california ext but at least i knew i was not going to be sold for drugs.
The train ride was uneventful but there was a charger plug in the train so i was able to charge my phone and post a picture i noticed that some were trying to track me down with the pictures they had seen and some even got it correct but i didn't say anything in the matter , but what i did do was post the old pictures and i helped some to get out of there toxic home but all of this information was over whelming i should be having my cute high school experience and seeing the world in rose tinted glasses but instead im running away form my mom and not knowing if they will find me not knowing if ill have to end in the system of adopting knowing that im all alone with nobody to lead me to what to do next , But at least i had luna on my side.
After 4 hours we got to kennese but to my surprise there was already a missing poster of me on the wall next to the map Stress started to fill my body because know there was a picture of luna next to mine if someone recognized her i would be screwed i was already standing on thin ice when i posted my story to the internet , but the problem was that there was no metro to georgia and the trip would take days to get .Luna looked tired we had walked a lot but if we didnt get out of tennessee we risked getting caught . I decided to walk to a empty plot of land i had seen on google map it was not that empty since it had a forest on grass all around but it was the best place to set camp,But the sumer was kicking in and the tent was to hot to even be in. So cleared in area of grass with a pocket knife i had so luna could lay down ,but she looked a bit sick i realised that she had never been properly dried after getting wet in the rain .
im not finished but thats what i have untill know