Cherry Ann

Prologue

My name is Cherry Ann. Yes Cherry, not Sherry. I don’t know what my parents were thinking when they named me, but I guess it was because all of their friends named there kids after fruit too. I have friends whose names are Peach, Apple, Raspberry and Star. Star got lucky her name isn’t an obvious fruit. We all live across the country now but we try to get together once or twice a year for a “Fruit Bash” so it must have been a fad or something. Even though I have to correct all my teachers. It's funny some people don't believe me when I say that is my name. I have even gotten in trouble with one of my teachers when I was younger for "lying." Now that was a funny day. Kids made fun of me in my early years of grade school, and now in high school the boy will make gross jokes about who will “pop Cherry’s cherry“. Boys have gross minds. I do like my name. It’s different. I’m different, and plus, no one has my name. I’m fifteen years old and I live in a small town that wants to be a big city. They have the attitude and the crime rate. I still can’t convince my parents we should move. 

I have one friend, Rachel Thomson. She and I have been friends since kindergarten. But lately, she has been changing. she doesn’t hang with me anymore. she has new “Cookie Cutter” friends.  I call then “Cookie Cutter” friends because they are all the same. They dress the same, act the same-you know the preppy cheerleader types, who think they are so much better than anyone else. They like to party and get drunk; that is not for me. But she has now started acting even weirder. Rachel missed school for about a week and so did a few other girls from her cookies cutter group. When they came back to school they seemed scared at first and later things got back to normal but with a bit more snob added into it.

I don’t know much about my family history. We had to do a project in school about our family tree and my mom could only tell me about my grandmother, Great Grandmother my grandfather, and that we were from somewhere in Europe. Let’s just say I didn’t get a good grade on that project. My grandmother died a few years ago and I never met my great grandmother. But, I did get some very old and very cool jewelry. I have a necklace and bracelet. They both have black pearls and onyx tear drop charms and a crest on them. I was told it was our family crest. It is really cool and I wear the bracelet all the time. It is my favorite piece of jewelry. I tried to look up the crest online, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. So my past is a mystery. 

I wish I knew my great grandmother. I had a few pictures of her and her parents. I found an old box in my grandmother’s attic one summer full of old paintings, photographs, and letters. She was beautiful and looked just like my many other great grandmothers. The oldest painting was dated 1749 and it look a lot like me; it was a little scary I don’t look much like my mother or my father. But my great grandmother in this 1749 painting could have been my twin. When I showed it to my grandmother, she got angry at me and said I was never to go in the attic again. She said that there were many things about my family that I could never know. I was too little at the time to argue, but I still remember that day. After she died, I went into the attic but all the paintings and boxes were gone. When I asked my mother about them, she said she didn’t know what I was talking about. It still bugs me to this day. What was she hiding from me? What was it about my family that was such a horrible secret?

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