Change

the beginning

Adriana POV

When I was five, everything was normal. I had my mom, my dad, and baby bother Aden who was three. A year later I had a baby sister named Lanie, but I didn't have my mom.

Two years after that on my 8th birthday, I got a step-sister named Marcie. It didn't actually happen on my 8th birthday, but that's when my dad meet her mom. It was a happy time, because a year later they were married and having my second baby brother Josh.

We were a happy family. Until a week before my 12th birthday I lost my dad in the line of duty to a bank robbery. It was my dad's death that brought out the side of my step mom that I didn't know she had. I don't think my dad knew she had it when they got married.

With my dad's death came his money. The funny thing is she didn't get any of it because it all went to me when I turn 18. She can be evil all she wants.

It wasn't a happy time, but it got better when Marcie and I got old enough to take care of the little ones.

It got worse, because when Marcie and I were 16, our last parent died of a drug overdose. It was hard for me but harder on Marcie.

We got through it. We had to convince the court we were mature enough to get emancipated. Marcie got a job at the local diner while I got a job at McDonald's. It pays the bills and puts food on the table.

We all go to school, then Marcie goes to work and I watch the kids. When she comes home they are in bed and I go to work.

It went on like this for a year, that's when it all changed. I met Shane. Shane changed everything.