My Heart Hadn't Settled Down

I lived with my grandma after my mother overdosed. My father wasn't in my life. We lived a pretty poor life, no car. One day a man came to our apartment to talk to grandma, and he took me away. I lived in his house with his wife and kids. I went to college with his daughter.

Later, when I was working my grandma sat me down. When I went to live with my surrogate family, he was DEA. I was flagged for an initiation ritual, a gang r**e for new members of a gang. He found out, he came to save me. take me away. Another girl paid the price.

He is my father, that's what grandma called me for.