Dillon's Story - The Wrong Trainers

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Dillon: This is my little hideout place of where I hide, when…I'm in trouble. There's a few good people around here, but…it's just all the guns and things, and knives. There's this thing called low batty, err they think that makes them look cool as well, but I think they look like total idiots.

To be like them and want to be their friend you have to do what they do. Living in this area means that people are likely to do that a lot around here.

Now I'm back to my home sweet home. 'Open this door now'. Before, when I was with my mum, I don't know…it just wasn't a very good experience. She…weren't the best person to be living with, 'cos…she abandoned us.

We only had two mattresses, no bed. [If] we wet the bed then we had to sleep on the same mattress every night. We'd mould on our feet. I was going to school stinking of wee. I didn't know what a toothbrush was either.

We didn't have many meals, all we was given was sweets. I can remember, like, there was nothing to eat, at all. And I went in cupboards, and all there was was biscuits…and bread, which was mouldy.

I was stealing money, but it wasn't for rings and diamonds and all that stuff, I just went and spent it on sweets and food. I think that's where I got the sweets thing from. If I had a big, massive, box of sweets in front of me, I would eat them all in one go, I wouldn't save any for later.

Zoe stepped in, and said 'I'll take them in'. The people who live in my house, now, today, is my brother, Luke.

Luke: Hiya

Dillon: He's a bit weird. There's also, my sister, Summer

Summer: Hello, I'm Summer

Dillon: My great aunt who I call my mum

Great Aunt: Hello

Boy: And my great uncle, I call him my dad

Great Uncle: Hello, how are you?

Dillon: He is a road sweeper, and he is also very funny. I don't know, I just…love her.

I'm not addicted to food any more, but, err, I'm still stealing though. I don't know why. A child's perfect life, or a normal life, should be, being tucked in, getting a good night kiss, err…and having a couple of sweets, but not all the time. I mean, that's what normal kids do get, isn't it?

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