That Girl

Prologue

Okay, so I'll admit I'm a total nerd. A nerd with strawberry-blonde hair, much-needed glasses, freckles, and blue eyes. Yep, that's me. A lot of people refer to me as bubbly, quiet, giggly, and funny. No one says that they think I'm a nerd out loud. No, that's too mean, instead they just think it. And like my sister says,"It's the thought that counts."

Hi, I'm Corina Sivertsen and this is my story.

I had lived my whole life in a little city in Washington called Sumner before we moved to the all too-hot Utah. Me and my younger sister had been born in Washington and didn't know any other places that well. My three older siblings had been born in different parts of Utah, but they were so young then that they hardly remembered anything. My mom had grown up in different parts of Virginia and my dad grew up in Ohio.

The only place my family had gone to for vacation was Utah. My mom and dad had lots of family living there, so they forced us, once a year, to drive 14 hours in the car to a place we didn't want to go to. I didn't like it at all and would despise every second there. I hardly knew my cousins and thought of all of them as snobs, except for a selected few. I couldn't imagine anything changing.

I believe it had been on a Monday(the worst days of all days) when my parents accidentally let it slip about their decision. Of course, all of us freaked out. We had never suspected or thought that we would ever move from our sweet Sumner city. I don't remember what my siblings did, but I broke down crying and ran to my room bawling. It just seemed all like a dream, but deep down I knew it wasn't.

After three months of looking for houses and potential buyers we moved. A lady from my dads work , as an engineer, heard about our house and went to check it out. In the end, she loved it so much that she went ahead and bought it from us. My family hosted a huge party and invited all of the people we knew to come over and see us for the last time. I really did try to enjoy myself, but there was always the thought of never seeing the people there ever again. My two friends Haily and Oriel were depressed that day, but still pretended to have fun. They were good friends like that.

When we pulled out of our driveway just three days after the party, my sisters started bawling. I held strong though because I had decided I had done my crying and would move on with my life. This would be my second chance.

The car ride only consisted of me and my sisters. My oldest brother Becker was on a trip to Ohio and wouldn't be coming back until next year and my other older brother Stanly was to stay behind to work some more before meeting up with us in a month or so. The trip was probably the most peaceful trip I ever remember having. We hadn't even found a house yet then. We just had to move since we had put it off for too long.

My parents booked us a two-room apartment at a hotel. We got a little kitchen, one small bathroom, one small living space with a fold out couch and TV, and two small bedrooms with 1 queen size bed in each. Even though our living space in the hotel wasn't so good, we got awesome necessities. Like, there was a swimming pool open until 10, free breakfast (it wasn't the best though) and a TV with constant good channels playing, plus we could plug in Roku to the TV to watch Netflix.

After a few days of being cooped up in the hotel, we started school. My younger sister, Lilly, was 12 and was going to seventh grade, I was 14 and going into ninth grade, and my older sister, Marien, was 18 and going to her last year in high school. Lets just say everything sucked. We didn't move into our house in Kaysville until a month after school started.

Marien was at first public schooled, but my mom started homeschooling. And for the last 2 years she had only been half home schooled. My little sister and I, on the other hand, had never been to public school and had preferred to keep it that way. We weren't homeschooling anymore because my mom had gotten a job as being an art teacher for an academy school, and wouldn't have time. Just our luck.

After two weeks of school,I had made 2 friends, Ellie and Andeline. They were both on the weird side, but they kept me entertained, and boy, did I need that. Public school was weird and different, but I quickly got the hang of it and became an all 'a' student. And as the year went on, I became a completely different person inside, but it wasn't until the next year that I would look like a completely different person.

Both of my brothers came home, and we all got eye checks. Stanley and Lilly were fine, but the rest of us weren't. Becker needed glasses to help him from getting headaches so often, Marien needed reading glasses, and I needed glasses to see far away. I guess reading does have its consequences. Marien and Becker both got square rimmed glasses while I got round, and they were perfect for me. I had always had a long face and the glasses helped with that. Then, a month after I got glasses, I decided to get a major haircut and start wearing mascara. And let's just say, after that I never went a day without wearing makeup, unless it was a Saturday.

I started making new friends and lose touch with others. I was very crazy around my friends, but I preferred to be quiet and let other people talk when I'm surrounded by strangers. And after a while I started taking voice lessons, drama lessons, art, and cooking. (Mostly for the food) and soon Stanley moved back to Washington and stayed with a friend, he went to college there and worked hard at his job. Becker went to college in Idaho and Marien went to college in Utah an hour or two away from us. It was just Lilly and I left.