Boy Named Romeo

By Troy Veenstra

Enter the world of a struggling, bullied Fourteen-year-old boy. Enter the world of a boy named Romeo, a young, kindhearted kid, searching for the reason of his existence while the world around him crumbles.

This book is based on the life of a boy Named Romeo, taken from the view points of the author, names of some people have been changed to protect their identity.

This is an ongoing series, following his life from April 2015 to September 2015. Each book will be the a combination of two months.

The purpose of these books are to help Romeo find himself while helping others like him that may be bullied themselves see that that they are not along, that they in fact are just like the boy named Romeo

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Jul 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311213686

Troy Veenstra

1974-2018 Troy Veenstra grew up in the city of Wyoming Michigan. He was born the eldest of two brothers and two sisters. In 1998 after the death of his father: who he quit school to take care of, he went to live with his maternal grandparents, living with them until they passed away one after the other in 1999. In 2000, his mentor, John Collins, owner of Weird Review Magazine, felt that Troy had much more potential than he realized, assisted him in getting back to school, where he obtained his High School degree six months later. Throughout 2001-2003 Troy attended Grand Rapids Community College majoring in English & Criminology studies. Later in 2004, he transferred to Davenport University studying in the area of Law, making the Dean's List in both summer and winter semesters for 2004, 2005, and 2006. Troy also received several competitive scholarship awards from various foundations, twice obtaining an award from the Grand Rapids Foundation. In late 2004, he became a member of the Kent County CASA program (Court Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children) and served as a child advocate until health issues prevented him from doing so in late 2008. Currently Troy has six novels accredited to his name as well as over 150 other titles in two pen names, ranging in genres such as True Crime, Legal Reference, Drama, Historical Fiction, Legal Fiction, Christian Fiction, satire, comedy, Children Fiction and women's romance/lit. Troy has won 2nd place in the 2013 Best Author Award from Fiction4all.com Troy's Links: [e-mail] http://www.independentauthornetwork.com/troy-veenstra.html https://www.smashwords.com/interview/TVeenstra http://www.linkedin.com/pub/troy-veenstra/36/910/470 http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorid=179079 https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4205489.Troy_Veenstra?from_search=true http://www.xinxii.com/adocs.php/en?aid=42296 https://www.facebook.com/Authortroyveenstra?ref=hl

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to the boy named Romeo.

The teenager that became my friend. My quiet, loving little brother.

Thank you for trusting me, letting me into your world, letting me help you begin to find your path.

My hope is that as these books grow that you begin to see the potential inside you that I can see so clearly!

Special thanks to Nate Morris, for introducing me to Romeo. Romeo’s Mother Sher, and older sister Michaela for helping me, help Romeo.

CHAPTER ONE

Intro to me

Back in 2005 I became a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children working in conjunction with the Kent County Family Court Division of Michigan. As a CASA I worked alongside the courts, the families of abused and neglected children as well as Child Protective Services.

Before that time, had I been approached by anyone, asking, requesting me to do any sort of volunteer work, I would have given them the evil eye, shook my head in disgust and walked away without saying a word.

That’s basically what I did too when one of my professors told me that in order to pass her class I would have to provide 15 hours volunteer time to my already hectic and busy life.

My thoughts at that time were "I’m paying over 1,000.00 to take this class and I HAVE to do volunteer time as well? Screw that idea. Back then the idea of doing anything of that nature was absolute rubbish as up until that time, I had to provide and fend for myself.

When I was 15 years-old, my mother left my father, who had become broken, At that time I didn’t understand the real reasons why she left, but looking back now I place no blame on her, as there is only so much one person can deal with, and she held on, stayed in a marriage that was more than most could handle for more than sixteen years.

As for my father, he wasn’t a Bad man but he also wasn’t a great man. My father had a tenacity to lie a lot, living in an almost fantasy world. He knew the basic, traditional ideas of what a family was supposed to be.

The typical ideology or rather the outdated concept that the wife was supposed to be the homemaker, taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, making the bill payments, grocery shopping, and satisfying