The Homeless teen

Meeting Tacoma

As a girl of barely 15 with no family and no home, i know a thing or two bout surviving on my own, or so i thought.

I walk into the gas station and look around, no one is there except me and the cashier dude. He looks at me suspiciously.
"May i help you Kid?" He looks me up and down, seeing my wimpy muscles and baggy cloths he seems not so concerned about me being a threat.
I feel uncomfortable under his stare for some reason, but i walk up to him anyway.
"May i use the restroom please?" i ask him. He looks about into his early 20s maybe 19 at the youngest.
He nods his head and slides a big wooden shoe towards me, connected to it by a medal wire is a key. He points at a door and says something about it being the restroom so i walk towards it.
I go in and sit on the toliet. After a few seconds i stand up and go to flush, i glance down at the toliet and see blood. I don't know what is happening or what to do so i end up wadding up some toliet paper to stop the bleeding and hope it works.
After i am done and i have flushed i go to the sink and wash my hands, then i push my sleeves up and wash my arms. I learned to give myself a quick rinse or wash when ever i can. I look down at my legs, they were just shaved two days ago but now i need to wash them so i grab some paper towels and wet them. I wash my legs as best as i can. I throw the paper towels away and look in the mirror.
Ugh a total mess. Why am i so ugly? I quickly look away and focus on washing my face and neck with paper towels and water then i put my hair under the water and add soap, rinsing it all out after. I do my best to squeeze the water out of my hair.
I am relatively clean now. I just need to change my cloths. But i can do that later. I Put my hood over my head so he doesn't know i washed my hair in here.. Totally awkward. I go out and walk over to the man.
"Its closing time kid, you wanna stick around? I can give you the extra food out of the deli that I am supposed to dump, but that's just a waste so why don't you eat it?"
I nod my head and hand him the bathroom key. He puts it away and leads me to the deli. He lets me pick out what i want so i get three chicken strips, a pizza pocket, two egg rolls, two chicken on a sticks, a bunch of potato wedges, and four corn dogs. He raises his eyebrow but doesn't say anything.
He gets it all out and slips it into a bag, i notice he adds extra chicken strips and pizza pockets. He takes it behind the counter and proceeds to close the deli up. Then he hands me the bag full of food and smiles politely.
"Have a nice night kid." He tells me as i turn my back and walk to the door.
"Thank you sir. You too." With that i walk out into the night.
I head down the street towards the little park that is a block away from my school.
Yes i go to school, its free so... All i had to do was fill out the paper work, put a fake address, sign a fake parent signature, and the vola im in school. In all my life, id struggled so much..but little did i know...it would pale in comparasion to what would happen soon, my life would change forever...not entirely for the best.