title: How Do I Escape When I'm Trapped in My Own Mind?
author: Kris Jones
description: Kris Jones lost her mom before turning eighteen, was molested by her father, and spent time in foster care. With How Do I Escape When I'm Trapped in My Own Mind? Kris hopes to educate and liberate individuals fighting battles like her own. She currently lives in West Virginia.
zlib_text: Chapter 1
  Claire
  It had to be tonight. I’m dressed in a pair of black jeans, a black t shirt, and a black hoodie. Taking
  one last look around my bedroom, if you can even call it that, I lower myself down the window in out
  into the night.
  I’ve been perfecting my escape plan for the last two years, picturing it in my head as I go to sleep
  at night. I’ve planned for everything, I have all the details in place.
  I’ve already wasted too much of my life here and I can’t wait to leave, even if the prospect of life
  on my own is terrifying. I’ll figure it out. My only regret is leaving my parents. Ok, well, leaving my
  mom. But I can’t stay here anymore. I won’t.
  My feet hit the ground and I take a deep breath, determined to make it the fuck out of here.
  I turn on my heel and sneak away from my house. And run right into a giant wall of a man.
  Not just any man.
  Davis.
  What the fuck is he doing here?
  He grabs my shoulders and shoves me against the tree I just climbed down.
  “I was just coming to see