I always heard people say things change, but I never knew life would do it so drastically.  I miss the old me, my better life.  My family went from all about bonding to seeing each other once every blue moon.  It is actually kinda sad.  My brother was my favorite sibling, and now we barely speak.  Growing up, everything about this shit called life was simple.  I didn’t have a worry in my body but things, anything you can name of, switched in my life.  My dad left us, and my mom didn’t care, let alone want to be a mother anymore.  Shemeka, my beautiful mother, had such a sweet soul, but to herself she always felt like a villain.  She took my dad leaving her so hard.  The fact that she had other boyfriends didn’t bother me.  It was because there were so many.  Truly, it’s one thing to have a boyfriend, but to bring a complete stranger around your children is the scary part.  I can remember his big hazel eyes, the way he would just stare at me every time I walked past.  Seven-year-old Destiny never could imagine a grown-up doing such irresponsible things.  I hated him.  I started to hate my mom.  Let alone the shit bothered me so much to the point I wouldn’t vent to my brother.  I just wanted to be by myself.  And by myself is when he, my mom’s boyfriend, would scare me.  He would make me feel so frightened, as if he was the boogey man.  In fact, he was the boogey man, always coming around my bed in the heap of the night.