Chapter 11 Charlie There's something with Nova. I know that I haven't known her for very long, soon it's only two months but still, I can tell that something is up with her. She avoids looking people into their eyes, and she often seems smaller than she actually is by the way she acts. I mean I'm not really sharing everything from my life either. I haven't told anyone but Jake and Grey about me being abused by my mother. I've been abused by her since I was very, very small, I don't remember a time when I wasn't abused by her. She hates me for not being a girl. And I would love to say that Penny isn't her daughter, but she is. Dad has divorced her though. Two years after Penny was born my mother almost killed me. She broke three of my ribs, one on the left and two on the right side. One o