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Chapter 1: Meet Me

I am first a seed. Just like you. Yes, you reading this. Unsurprisingly, we all start off as a seed. Well in this life and death case, a speck, the product of an egg and a tiny sperm cell collided. Its a pretty random way of thinking about it, but its true.

By the way, Im Jacqueline Torres. Jacquie for short. Im eleven years old. It is mid November in my first semester of the sixth grade. My friends so far are Tony Santiago, Genesis, Megan, Maria, and Hannah. My best friend is Krystal Fabiola Torres. We're not related. But we're exactly alike. We like the same bands and genre of music, we struggle through similar things in life and so forth. When i first saw her, she had shoulder length black hair with blue highlights. Dark and light blue highlights. It was unique to me. It was something... different. And thats what i was there for at the time. I needed a new start. So lets start to the beginning of summer 2015.

Before i met Krystal i had Patricia Ramirez. Dont get me wrong. She has an amazing personality, she is very unique as well, but she was just so... clingy? Im okay with "clingy" but when you only talk to someone just to explain your problems to them... its not going to work out, especially with me. We drifted away during the summer of 2015. But I wasent worried. Until my parents lost a lot of money, my sisters were pains in my ass, dad would get aggressive and start hitting us, and mom would be stressed. Those were the weeks i hated.

I had 8 family members at the time living in a 3 bedroom house. My parents (Mark and Adriana Torres) , two sisters (Alice, 14, Elaine 13), brother (Mark Jr, 8), two dogs (Bella and Zoe), and including me there were 8.

Elaine and i have been sharing rooms since we were the tiniest. And i was sort of ok with that. But we made it work some how.