𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄 |𝐊𝐀𝐘 𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊

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Serai Monae Ramírez // 18 // Brand Ambassador // Artist

Graduation. The day that most seniors have been waiting decades for I was more than ready to get up and out of my high school, the drama, the students, certain teachers, the food I was tired of all it.

Throughout I took every lesson seriously because I'll be damned to repeat another year with these people. But if we're being real I did not need high school, my parents had money and I mean a lot of money so high school didn't really need to see me, I only went because I had nothing else to occupy my day with.

Nor did I want to stay at home and become absolutely nothing and be useless for the rest of my life. At some point I'll have to stop relying on my parents and be my own person yet I don't think I could achieve that without a high school diploma because that's expected of me.

Roughly ten years ago, my parents started up their real estate company, within their first year their company was successful. They already had years of experience working in the field, they took all of that hard work and dedication to invest it into something that they knew was going to make money.

They just didn't know they were going to be rich off it.

Their outgoing personalities allowed people to be more drawn towards them, from pure observation people are more attracted to extroverted people that it helped with gathering employees.

Colleagues from their old jobs saw that my parents had their own business up and running and decided to join because they believed that my parents would make a name for themselves in the industry. In the next year my parents plan to retire and let me take over the company I'm not sure if that's something I wanted for myself.

I was looking to live the sweet, cottage village life, with my farm, paintings with a few cats. To be running a whole company by myself was insane to me and I know Amaro was not prepared or built for a life like that.

Their success led to my family being taken out of the Bronx trenches allowing me fully transform myself into the person that I dreamed to be.

If I'm being completely honest I've never gone throughout my childhood not having money, according to the people I grew up with they always saw that I was always wearing something new or branded.

Or perhaps I smelt good and that my hair, nails, lashes and eyebrows were always done and neat that I was too stuck up for them because I never had a rough childhood that's how I knew the Bronx life was not for me.

If my cottage village doesn't work out, maybe London, Paris or Miami will.

I never saw their beliefs about me because nobody else saw it but those that didn't like me which is I stayed with my one friend, sister at that; Kaia.

Kaia never grew up with money like that yet she never saw this stuck up little girl that people made me out to be and got to know me for herself and now we're family for life.