Prologue
I was running for my life away, away from everything around me, away from school, away from my life. She made it worse, She made my life the way it was and how miserable it was, now I can’t go back and undo it all. I’m stuck with the horrible choices I made and I’m trapped. The wet leaves of the forest slop and squish around my feet. A huge wall of trees shoots from the ground and stops me. I hear her cackling with delight as I fill with horror and can’t find a way away.
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Hi my name is Ahlia and my life is perfect. I get up every morning at 6:00 am for school. I go down stairs and greet my grandmother. I was told my mom died when I was born and my dad left for a rich wife with five kids. I was left with my grandmother and never learned of any other life. I eat breakfast and get changed and walk the 10 minute walk to school everyday. I go to St. Alred High. I’m in 9th grade and really tall for my age. A lot of the time people point and laugh at me, but I know to go to the library and leave the world into books.
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I go to my first class for the day with Bob Rickelson, the school jock and captain of the boys lacrosse team and every girl's dream. I however don’t care for him the smallest bit. This just makes him even more annoying and persistent. He tries to get me to fall for him. It never works.