T A K E N

prologue

Chelsea Brooks

      I have never liked reading.  

For as long as I can remember I've always been really shit at it. I will be reading and then for some reason I will skip over multiple lines and then keep reading like nothing happened, and then I get all confused and have to go back and re-read the same parts over and over again.  

 My grandmother always says it is because my mind moves to fast for the slow moving words. 

          All through–out elementary school I was kind of a show-off, I always put my hand up when the teacher asked a question even if I didn't have a solid answer, but I was never a teachers pet or anything like that–              

                   I fucking hate teachers pets.

       I was a never one of them, but I was always very outspoken. And not to be too cocky or anything but pretty popular if u ask me.    Then all throughout middle school I was apart of the debate team and soccer team. I was still very outspoken, and not afraid to speak on topics i'm passionate about; 

lets put it this way you, wouldn't want to be in my class during a debate about something i'm passionate about. 

I also took up boxing and self defense classes in 7th grade because I started to walk to school alone and living in NYC, it doesn't hurt to know how to defend your self. Thats one thing i'm really happy my grandma made be do because now i'm pretty good and self defence and when i'm drunk.. well lets just say you don't want to piss of drunk me because I will drop kick ur ass. 

Then in 8th grade I started to apply for high schools, and when my grandma was telling be about her days when she went to boarding school, I was set on going to one. So I did. I applied for a few boarding schools in America and a few public as back ups, and if i'm being honest I didn't think I was going to get into boarding school, but I tend to surprise myself a lot and I did. So that September I attended the Milton Academy Boarding School in Massachusetts. 

   The first few months of freshman year were pretty hard because I missed by older brother Josh and my grandma, but by the time spring break came and went I was fully immersed in boarding school life and loved it. 

        I was also lucky enough to be roomed with a girl named Ava Philips, who very quickly became my best friend in the world. Me and Ava are practically joined at the hip, so for the next two years we demanded that we were roommates. So all throughout freshman, sophomore and junior year we were roomies. 

    We would of been roommates again this coming year, but Ava got this amazing opportunity to do an exchange year in London for her senior year, so unfortunately I will be put with some random girl and only be able to see Ava through face-time. Im really proud of her though because its a really cool opportunity and she's always wanted to go to London.  

As far as school goes i'm pretty good and Math and Bio. I am shit at english though, but when I was in tenth grade I got diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD so that probably doesn't help me when it comes to writing essays. Im a straight B student with a few A and Cs sprinkled into the mix. But when ever it has come to school for my whole life I have always felt like my mind has moved too fast for the people around me, and not in a like i'm a genius kind of way. In like a i'm confused kind of way. 

// Heyyy guys so this was only a short chapter to kind of get to know Chelsea a bit more and like her back storyy.

Next chapters gonna be in present time and the actual kind of story will start lol.

i'm actually so excited to write this book It took me like 4 hours to plan what the story's gonna be about lol..  

I don't have a publishing schedule yet but I will try to upload a few times a week.

lmk what u think of Chelsea!! 

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