my mom kicked me out for what i did to the principal

hi my name is jen one day i was sitting quietly in class listening to our boring teacher ramble on and on ms silva was always super strict with us and she loved to brag about how only she understood the hard realities of life since she had once been homeless for a whole two hours when we were assigned projects and she refused to let me do my chosen project which was homelessness she went too far my dream in life was to become a social worker and help people living on the streets ms silva wouldn't budge though and she mocked me saying jen with your cushy life you can't possibly have the perspective to understand this topic how dare she everyone in my class laughed i had been known as a spoiled girl throughout high school because we were well off and my classmates must have agreed with her i complained about it to my friend carol who agreed that ms silva was mean and out of line but then she said yeah but it was pretty funny too i mean you are very spoiled and you wouldn't survive half a day on the streets i replied seriously carol i might look spoiled to you but i'm not i could make it as a homeless person for a week if not more carol laughed and said sure you can princess if you're so confident why not try it out in fact i dare you you know what i will do it i'm not afraid to try you challenged the wrong girl dare accepted after that carol and i decided that she would film my journey of being homeless for a whole week i was actually seriously scared about the idea what was i thinking a whole week i might die from hunger or get eaten by a predator or get sick and die of hypothermia but something in me wanted to go through with a dare i wasn't gonna give up my mom of course hated the idea she even threatened to ground me to make sure i couldn't do it she warned me that life on the streets was dangerous especially at night but i wasn't going to go crawling back to carol and tell her that my mommy wouldn't allow it i was going to do it with or without my mother's approval my plan was that on the days when i was supposed to be at school i would claim that i was sick instead i would sit on main street and dirty clothes to blend in with other homeless people but every night i would go home and sleep in my own bed on an early monday morning before school carol and i started packing my bag with stuff from my locker and home i'd brought way too much stuff from home but i wanted to be on the safe side when we were about to leave carol had one more dare she wanted me to set up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city at first i refused as i could end up in real danger but carol refused to negotiate instead we made a deal that i could call 9-1-1 if anything were to happen i began to feel weird about the whole thing some people were giving me where he looks though most just pretended i wasn't there the neighborhood looked pretty scary it took a long time to decide where to set up there was an empty convenience store that had gone out of business so i decided to settle down in the doorway i sat down and placed my nike hat on the ground carol offered some last minute cookies but i refused as i wanted this to be as genuine as possible homeless people find their own food carol filmed me for a brief time and said this is jen on her first day as a homeless person good luck and then she went home sitting in the doorway made me soar fast i ended up leaning on the newspaper covered door i felt so nervous how did homeless people do this i tried to pass the time by daydreaming about me and my crush from school erin but that only lasted a few minutes finally someone dropped a few coins in my cap i smiled and said thank you the soreness started to become too much time for a stretch i thought getting to my feet the minute i stood up though a mangy looking middle aged man with a long scraggly beard and black glittering eyes confronted me that's my spot he growled at me for a split second his tall looming figure unnerved me and i got ready to run away the next moment however a voice in my head spoke up if you don't stand up to the likes of him now the whole week will be your personal hell the thought charged me and i dug my heels in beat it old man i was here first i tried to imitate his way of speaking his frown deepened and he raised his hand with the flash i swung my backpack off my shoulder and straight into his stomach he groaned doubling over in my heart i congratulated myself thinking i'd won the next minute however the man looked over his shoulder and yelled get her boys that's when i saw two equally mangy looking boys emerge from the shadows they both grinned evilly as they stepped towards me before they took another step i threw the cap with the coins in the man's face which caught him off guard and gave me time to turn on my heels and run behind me i could hear him yelling at the boys to get to me faster people around us were starting to stop and stare i didn't have time to ask them to intervene i pushed past everyone heading towards the busy roads i had a good head start so i was hopeful i could get away from them i realized though they were hot on my heels and as i passed a grocery store i bumped into a woman with a trolley damn i cursed as her stuff went flying i'm so so i stopped as i saw the woman was none other than miss silva jen she gasped shocked before i could run away she grabbed me by the arm the boys had almost caught up to me now when they saw me with ms silva they assumed i had gotten into trouble giving me one last look of anger they turned around and went back the way they had came i however was stuck with ms silva whose shock was being slowly replaced with rage what in the world are you doing she asked sharply i briefly explained to her the bet her insult had led to she looked ashamed i'm sorry jen this isn't what i wanted you to do i gave her a quick hug and made her promise she wouldn't tell anyone to my surprise seeing how determined i was to get through this she agreed then she asked me where i would be and promised to come check on me every day realizing she wasn't as bad as i thought she was i returned to look for another spot around the same area the next few days passed without any more fights and i quickly learned about life as a homeless person it's true that i still slept in my house as soon as it got dark but during the daylight hours i was struggling to survive carol came every morning at 6am to make sure i was still there she'd make fun of me every time about the way i looked i wasn't taking care of my skin and i started getting pimples my hair looked bad and i'd really started to smell i got used to it pretty fast though i also learned how to deal with homeless people they weren't as bad as i'd first thought and they were actually pretty nice to me they shared their food with me and told me all kinds of tales about themselves soon enough i had some homeless friends who were very good people on the final day of the dare i was already excited about going back to normal life but that day something weird happened a man stopped in front of me he had a briefcase and was dressed in a nice suit he was eyeing me with a mixture of admiration and suspicion he asked me if i was homeless and i said yes he left to make a call then came back he told me that i'd impressed him with my street smarts and standing my ground against that other homeless man on my first day how did he know all that if i wanted he said i had the opportunity to be on a new reality tv show that was like big brother but with teens i stared at him blankly the man explained that this reality show wanted to give back to the community so they were allowing two homeless teens on the show i fit the picture i wasn't sure what to say as i wasn't really homeless and it felt wrong but i loved reality shows and this was an amazing opportunity i'd never have otherwise the man took my silent contemplation to mean yes and the next thing i knew i was signing an agreement to be on the show before i could admit the truth of my situation he had got my cell number and was gone i sat there in shock for a few minutes later that day i went to the soup kitchen which was packed and had actually decent soup some of the ladies were nice and let me wait in line with them however as i was waiting i soon saw things devolve into chaos there were too many people who needed food and not enough staff to hand it out it even seemed like there might not be enough food some of the people in line started mobbing and fighting each other to get to the front of the line i hurried behind the counter and started handing out food alongside the volunteers and yelled at people to calm down i managed to get everything back to normal and quickly everyone was happily getting served after i went back out on the streets i saw it was about to get a lot harder as it started to rain all of the homeless people took cover but i stayed where i was since i wanted to have the full homeless experience including the very worst parts after all if something like that happened at night or when i was too weak or tired to move i'd be exposed to the elements plus i needed to think about what i had seen back there in the soup kitchen it was incredibly moving and heartbreaking those poor people so hungry and miserable that they were driven to get into physical fights for food i wanted to do something but i felt so helpless that evening when i got home i didn't feel right the dare had ended but i still felt bad about the harsh reality homeless people were forced into when my mom saw me she was horrified she said i'd been acting weird all week and that i looked like i had a terrible cold when i admitted what i'd done she was furious with me then i remembered the offer i received but telling her about the reality tv show didn't calm her down at dinner that night i was quiet and when my mom asked me why i admitted we always have food so i always took it for granted but today i saw people fight just to get something to eat my mom felt bad about what i'd seen but seem to think that was just the way things were i wasn't so convinced though there had to be something i could do that night in my room i couldn't sleep or stop my negative thoughts from cycling around my head maybe it was because of all the homeless friends i made and how frustrating it felt not being able to help them so in the middle of the night i made up my mind i'd go on the reality show so i could win money to help my friends when i told my mom she was supportive although she was worried you never know what crazy stunts these reality tv shows will pull i told her not to worry that i'd be able to fend for myself besides i had to do this to help my friends it was lucky that i called the director when i did because they were just about to start filming the show as it turned out my mom was right about the show for some reason the director decided to focus on me and encouraged me to be mean to the other contestants he wanted me to do things like steal their food and even call them names i guess they wanted to paint me as a villain or something at first i went along with it because if i won i could help so many of my friends but the director kept pushing me further and further and the worst thing was he'd smile his creepy smile and say you know you want to ew no i didn't finally when we were on the streets filming one day they got me to pick a fight with a girl who was sleeping under a plaid blanket i almost said no but i knew the director would boot me off the show if i argued so i went for it and shook her awake when the girl came out sleepy and disoriented my jaw dropped it was one of the friends i made while i was living on the streets you jerk i exploded at the director how dare you torment homeless people when you know how vulnerable they are you're sick the crew put down the camera and my friend hurried away before i could explain myself meanwhile the director's face was beat red and he said with a sneer the award had your name on it but now you're getting nothing and that was that i was booted off the show at least my conscience was more or less intact i was livid the show had been completely corrupt it made money off homeless people who didn't know any better and were desperate for money when i called carol she agreed that the directors and the crew were complete psychos but brought up how she had filmed me that gave me an idea on the day that the show was to premiere we decided to take our revenge some of my tech savvy friends helped us post the videos carol had made of me on social media now the whole homeless reality show was ruined as it was revealed i was never actually homeless the show was publicly criticized and the director received threats from angry people and he tried to sue me for his losses luckily carol's mom was the top lawyer in town and represented me the case got a lot of press and big lawyers got involved but in the end i won all the judge had to see was some footage of the show and how it took advantage of homeless people and she ruled that the entire show was unethical and misleading best of all though was what she ruled would happen to their prophets all of it would go to help the homeless so in the end i did receive some criticism for pretending to be homeless it was a risk posting those videos but one i definitely didn't regret the most important thing was that i help my friends and other homeless people too

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Published: Thu Oct 22 2020