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Prologue

The name's Carter. Carter Elizabeth Arevalo and though there are other characters, this story is just about me. When I was eleven my family moved from Oxford, Texas to Honeydew, Washington. For most people, thats a drastic change in just about everything; community, culture, environment, weather. Its all very different.

Now little eleven year old me was not happy that she had to leave her whole life behind. Everything she had gained in eleven years would be virtually gone; all of her friends, her room, her school. She was sad that she would never again be able to see the view of the whole city from the tallest tower, or hang out at the pool with her best friends, or go to her favorite western themed restaurant, Barnyard. It was very tragic.

Now imagine what a disappointment it was when she got to this Honeydew place that she had only ever heard of to find that the sun isn't as present as it was in Oxford. In fact, ninety percent of the time it was hidden by thick layers of clouds, and not the white, puffy ones, but the ugly gray ones that signify storms. Imagine her shock that there were no rodeos in Honeydew either, or pools, or big tall buildings.

And I guess little eleven year old me figured that because most of the things she loved were not to be found in Honeydew, that she didn't need any of them. So she shut herself out from the world and from Honeydew and from people and she stayed that way. She no longer liked being outside, and she forgot what it was like to have friends, so she stayed in her bedroom looking out her window at the malevolent rain, but she grew used to it and now, I'm her and she's me.

Sad story, yeah? Well, kinda. Maybe not. It always seemed sad to me, up until like six days ago when I realized how pathetic my life was, then it was sad too, but a different kind of sad, ya know? What was six days ago you might ask?

Nothing really. I mean I just noticed that I could have had such a better four years here in Honeydew, but didn't because little, stubborn, eleven year old me evidently ruined my life. Four years of it anyway. So now you might ask what I'm going to do to better my life and to that I am going to answer with a simple I don't know.

I mean, I did go to public school and I know of everyone that attends, but I shut everyone out and kinda developed a reputation. A dull reputation really if you ask me. I'm not one hundred percent positive, but I am pretty sure that I am "that weird girl who has absolutely no social life or interests that no one wants to get to know" so I feel trying to make friends now would be rather pointless.

Anyways... that leads us to where we are now, which happens to be seventh period geometry, also the that last period of the day, and I think on my walk home, I'll start my new life by climbing a tree or something.