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My name is Ava Berlin, I am a 16 year old girl. I have dark brown hair, hazel eyes and light skin. My dad is a director of a big business, he has brown hair, blue eyes and tanned skin. My stepmom's name is Natalie. She is a sales manager at a supermarket, she has blonde hair, green eyes and light skin. My stepbrother's name is Mike, he is a typical 16 year old boy with blonde hair, green eyes and a fit body to seal the deal. My dad and my stepmom got married a 10 years ago. My real mom had left, when I was 5, without a trace or a reason. I don't really get a long with Natalie and Mike, Natalie never really liked me since she came. She always saw me as a burden to her perfect family and Mike just always went along with it. My dad never really cared after getting remarried, he would always say "You always remind me of that hag who left me. I wish she took you with her so you wouldn't be such a burden." I had to learn to live with the way they treated me. They made me do the dishes, clean the house, always clean up after Mike; If Mike does something wrong it is all my fault so I get blamed for everything. I would always feel unwanted in this house, however, I still care for them and wish them well. They are my family at the end of the day even though they don't seem to want me.
Caring for someone and getting hurt is something normal for me. It gets kind of depressing to the point you don't want to do anything and just die. I just hope for once they will care for me as much as I care for them even after everything they have done to me, but that is like trying to grab air. I just can't wait to finish high school so that I can move out and cut them out of my life. I care for them but not enough to risk my mental health.
Right I am walking down the stair so that I can go school. I get into the kitchen, Mike and Natalie are already here. There is pancake on the table with bacon, juice and water.
"Morning." I greet them while I walk to the table.
"Morning." They respond in a low, uninterested voice. I grab a bacon and Mike stand up. he grabs the keys and heads to the door.
"Are you coming?" He asks.
"But I thought mom was driving me to school today and I'm still eating." I say with chewing the bacon.
"I have work today, just go with Mike and stop bothering me." She say in an annoyed tone while she stands from the chair wearing a night dress, I wonder what job lets her wear a night dress to work. She is not even dressed it wouldn't kill her to drive me to school and back, ugh whatever. I stand up with a pancake in my mouth and grab my bag on my way out.
I walk to the car, I notice my dad's car is missing in the drive way. I get into the car and Mike has already started the engine. I fasten my seat while Mike has already pulled out of the driveway, driving at a high speed.
"Oh my god can you slow down? I'm trying to eat." I ask in an annoyed voice.
"Oh my god can shut up? I'm trying to drive." He mocks me.
"I don't sound like that." I say angrily.
"I don't sound like that." He mocks me again. I grunt in frustration while I chew the remaining piece of my pancake.
The car finally packs in the school parking lot. I step out the car and slam the door out of anger and frustration.
"Can you not slam my door?!" He shout out of anger.
"Can you not be a dick sometimes?" I ask back at him.
"Can you stop being a bitch who hides behind hoodies?" He asks leaving me in shock while he walks away from me. I walk up to him and grab his shirt angrily pulling him, making him stop walking and face me.
"I don't hide behind hoodies." I say angrily.
"Really then why don't you take it off?" he asks while he pulls on my sleeve.
"I don't have to listen to you." I say while I pull my sleeve away and walk to the school building.
"Just like always, you always talk. You hide your body behind your hoodies without a reason. Sometime I wonder what are you hiding behind those hoodies of yours?" He say while he walks past me. I ignore him and continue walking to school.
What do I hide behind my hoodies? I hide scars that I have put on my self because I really hate my life and I wish I could die. I hide my really skinny body because I am unable to do anything about it in anyway. I hide all the feelings I am trying to keep inside because I even if I let them out no one will listen to me. Life is unfair and you just have to deal with it. Mike is the type of guy who is popular in school while I am I girl with one friend and pretty unknown in school. If this was a book I would probably be a background character or even an extra with the name girl #1 or no name.
I walk into my business classroom and sit on my place. My best friend ,Haley, hasn't come to class yet. She is a black skin girl with short curly hair. She is either walking down the halls talking to people or hasn't reached school yet. I lay my head on desk hoping to get a nap before class starts. Hands slam on my desk aggressively, while I try to get some shut eye. I look up to see Haley looking at me while smiling.
"Hey." She says with a smile, acting like nothing happened.
"What is with all the aggression early in the morning?" I ask her while I rub my eyes.
"Why you sleeping at this hour?" She asks.
"Can people stop answering a question with a question? It is getting annoying." I says while she sits on the desk next to me.
"Okay. I just wanted someone to talk to. Your turn answer my question." She responds.
"I didn't get much sleep yesterday." I state while I sit properly. Haley is on the desk with her legs hanging. She is dressed in black jeans with a sleeveless black shirt written 'I hate life' in red.
"Why? Family?" She asks.
"Ya, something like that." I respond. She sighs tiredly.
"Sorry, you know how much I wish I could help you. Honestly your family is a bunch of bitches. I wish you could come live with me." She says in a worried tone.
"It's okay I will survive." I respond.
"Will you though? Your wrist says other wise." She states.
"I told you I have stopped." I say in a defensive tone while I grab my sleeves.
"Your reaction tells me other wise." She says while she jumps of the desk and walks up to me. "I really love and care for you. I hope that one day I wouldn't have to go to your funeral." She say while she puts her hand on my shoulder and hugs me.
"You won't" I reassure her.
She pulls away and walk back to her seat. She sits down and take out her books from her bag. I do the same and out them on my desk.
"Oh before I forget." She suddenly talks catching my attention. "I heard that there is anew guy coming to school today." She says.
"Okay, so what?" I ask uninterested.
"So what?! So I hope his hot, we really need those kind of boys in our school. You know someone to date." She says excitedly, I laugh at her behaviour.
"You have dated half the class." I state.
"And you have dated none." she states. "I think the time has come for you to get a boyfriend." she says.
"Oh no, I don't have time for that. I have to study for exam, I have to do home stuff-"
"You have to go and get depressed." She jokes. "Come on Ava, forget about your family, school and homework and just this one time step out of your shell and let someone, besides me into your heart." She says.
"However we all know he will go for you." I joke.
"For you I will come looking ugly everyday, just so he can only have eyes for you." She joke, I laugh at her and she laughs too.
The bell rings for class time and we all settle down on our seat while the homeroom teacher walks in.
"Good morning class." Mr chandler greets.
"Morning." The class replies. I like Mr chandler, he is our homeroom and Psychology teacher. He is so fun and doesn't like waisting time on petty stuff. "Okay I will get straight to the point so we can get this over with and I can go to sleep until 11:30." He states, the class starts laughing.
"Mr Chandler, I can I also go sleep with you. I'm really sleepy." Some guy at the back of the class says.
"Do you have a job?" Mr Chandler asks him.
"No." He responds.
"Then no, when you get one you can do whatever you want." Mr Chandler says making all of us laugh. "Okay back to the main topic of the day. I believe you are all aware that there is a new student in our class." He say, the whole class nods. "Well without further or do, Oscar may you please come in?"
