Just This Once - A Hunter Rowland Story

Prologue

Hi, I'm Mackenzie Grayson. Your average (I think) almost 15 year old girl. I was born on November 2, 2001 and will be turning 15 very soon. I've hard a hardish life kind of I guess. My dad died of cancer when I was 4 and my mom died in a car accident coming home from work one day when I was 7. I was living in an orphanage for a month until my grandma was able to come down to Anaheim to come get me so I could go and live with her in Phoenix. Before that incident, I was attending Mattie Lou Maxwell Elementary and I was going to that school for Kindergarten and part of Grade 1. I didn't really have anybody at that school because I didn't really know how to make any friends and people just didn't really want to hang out with me I guess.

So, then I moved to Phoenix with my grandma on December 14th. And since she didn't really have anything to spend her money on, she bought a really nice house. I had a few days to settle in and then it was my first day of school in Phoenix. My grandma enrolled me at Lookout Mountain Elementary and I attended that school for grades 2-6. I preferred that school over my old one because the people were a lot nicer and I just enjoyed it so much more. In grade 3, that was when I met my best friend. His name is Mario. Mario was my most favourite person at the time. I was bullied quite a bit at that school, so Mario being the guy that he was, stuck up for me everytime someone said something bad about me. We hung out like everyday after school and would go to the park and have sleepover's at each other's houses and just do normal things kids do. Until, one day. In 6th grade. Mario was going on a roadtrip to Cali and got in a car crash. His mom was the only one that survived. That event made me depressed for the longest time and even now when I think of it, I still get really sad. I lost my best friend. It wasn't easy. So I was back to being the loner at school.

Eventually I graduated from Elementary and started going to Mountain Sky Middle for grades 7-8. I was acquaintances with most people in my classes but nobody could ever replace what Mario was to me.

But now I am currently going to Sunnyslope High School. And I have made a few friends. Loren Beech is one of my closest friends to me. And I have another friend, Mark. One of the nicest guys I've ever met (although not as nice as mario). It was my freshman year friend group for high school and I had the greatest times with them.