The look of indifference on the child protective service worker Ill never be able to comprehend. I dont think I could work at a job like that if it le...t me numb to the suffering of a child. Child protective services worker, going by Ms. Clark, stops me from giving first aid. That child needs to go to the emergency room at the hospital. I will not be able to do anything until we have a doctors report. I gently bring the dress back in the place, even in her sleep Sam moans from pain. I inform Ms.. She then got into the shower and washed the sweat off of her body to prepare for the day’s work. She then washed her hair with a conditioner, to make it easy to comb out. She got out of the shower and dried her body off. Then grabbed her hair drier to dry her hair faster. She flossed and then used her Oral-B automatic toothbrush on her teeth. She applied some deodorant, and she was ready to get dressed.Coming out of the bathroom, she went to her closet where she got dressed. Her closet was a. She looked miserable and cowed.I carried on, "Whatever is mum and dad going to say, with what they'vegot on their plate already, without a stupid selfish, self centreddaughter as well." Oh god," she said, "I wasn't thinking, what have you told mum and dad?"I stared at her and snapped, "Nothing, I was going to leave that to you!"I didn't mean to sound hard, but I was so angry and afraid I justcouldn't hold back.She just looked at me and piteously asked, "Don't hate me, I'm so, sosorry, what must. What would another five years bring? Or ten? Or twenty? Would she still be the same woman who once believed that she could do anything? What was that old saying? ‘What you can believe, you can achieve’ Maybe so, but first you have to be able to believe it, and sometimes it was hard to even remember what that sort of ‘belief’ felt like. The exhilarating sense of freedom and power that came with the feeling that the future was wide open, that the past and present were just steps leading towards.