He Doesn't Realize What He Has

Authors Note: I wrote in Gwenda's perspective because the book doesn't really explain how she feels.

The feeling of holding in your happiness is just torture to the soul and that’s how I feel right now.

“Ms. Davis, are you listening?” Said Jill

“O yes of course! Now what is it we are talking about again?” I quickly replied, hoping for a short response.

“Matthew is going to be taking part in our governments new program to help troubled kids such as Matthew,” as the social worker Jill nodded her head at Matt, “He will have a host chosen for him and for the next couple of months he will be staying with them in a small town hopefully improving Matt’s attitude and actions with work.”

“Psh! Matthew doesn’t have a bad attitude, he’s just plain out stupid!” I said while slipping a giggle or two.

Matthew, with his shoulders slumped complained, “You mean I have to actually work? That’s not fair!”

Ignoring Matt’s comment Jill continued to explain the LEAF project to me but all I could really hear was, “For the next year you won’t have to see this little twurp at all or put up with his un-thankfulness!"

“I don’t know why I care so much about what happens to this boy, I mean I never cared about him when we had to take care of him? I just don’t understand.”Matt’s Aunt could not stop talking about Matt to her boyfriend. She had to take care of him after both his parents died in a car crash. In a car he was supposed to be in. As Matt’s Aunt and her boyfriend discussed this, she couldn’t help but thinking how quickly he would come back and have to go to prison.

“You know? I don’t think that boy will even last ONE month there. He has always been creating trouble for us so there is no doubt he won’t last long with that Ms. What’s her name? Deveril? Such a weird lady she was.” Matt’s Aunt went on and on about what she thought would happen to him while her boyfriend had some ideas of his own which he wanted to share and so he did.

“I don’t know, you might be wrong. So yea his parents died and that has to be very traumatizing. Maybe some hard work would be good for the lad wouldn’t you say? Ms. Deveril lived on a farm so I’m sure the boy is hard at work.” 

As soon as he said that he regretted it. His girlfriends face just lit like a tomato and she liked like she was about to blow. “Are you kidding me! That boy has never done anything good! I am so glad he is gone, he never appreciated anything we did! AH!” 

She stormed out of the room only to say one more thing. “Oh and by the way you can sleep on the couch tonight you piece of junk!”

In the world many children are very trouble and Matthew is one of those kids. Gwenda Davis is the Aunt in law of Matt. There are two sides to this story, there is Gwenda's side and there is Matt's side. Gwenda doesn't even come close to being a good parent she always ignores him and treats him with disrespect but she thinks that she is taking care of him which is exactly the opposite of what is going on.