Chapter 1
I'm trying to decide where to start telling you this. If I should tell you about how it was before they came. Before they changed mine and every other teenage-life in the little town of Colebrook, Connecticut. They said things would change for the better. They said they would turn everything about the whole city around. Looking back on it now I feel like a fool for actually believing a group of teenage kids that no one had ever heard of could change an entire community. "They" are three kids who came to the city when I was in the 6th grade. They seemed harmless. They seemed like they were actually here to help us. But they changed on us faster than the speed of light. This story isn't about things that people would call "rich-white-girl “problems like backstabbing teenagers. It's about much more than that. The only reason I can tell you all this was because I was in the middle of it, at the age of 12. I'm not just here to tell you my story, but the story of every other person that was involved.
When I was twelve years old, the city I lived in was just starting to get on the map. Not many people lived there so the city was usually quiet all the time. I had always had dreams of moving away to a big city like New York. My mother used to always tell me "Kyla, if you can get out of this town, come back for the rest of us." No one really left Colebrook once they got there. They would get too attached to the flat farmlands and not want to go back to civilization or sometimes people would start a family there and just get too lazy to leave. My school, only one of two middle schools in the city, was called Brookshire. It was extremely small for a middle school with only 2 small buildings and 500 kids. My dad was the principal at this time. He had been principal there for almost 20 years by the time I had gotten there. I didn't know what it was gonna be like having my dad as principal at my school, but my dad didn't really know me since my parents got divorced when I was three and my mom had full custody. He mainly just left me alone and treated me like he did every other kid that was actually a good student; he ignored me. At my school, if you didn't get into trouble or wasn't failing, you were forgotten about by practically everyone except the other people who were great students and some of the teachers. People didn't really care about you. The popular crowd was made up of troublemakers, idiots, and backstabbing girls.
In that group, the biggest backstabbing, idiotic, stupid girl of them all was Alyssa. She was the queen bee of Brookshire even though she was only in 7th grade. Her family was the richest family in Connecticut and her father was one of the most respected men on the east coast. Her family had lived in Colebrook for generations. They had built this city up to the place it is today even though the place is kind of run down. Her father was not only the richest person in the city but he was also the mayor. Whatever he says goes. That rule applies to his daughter at our school too, even to the teachers. Mr.James, Alyssa’s father, was a cruel man. If he heard his daughter wasn't being treated better then everyone else, he'd make everyone who was involved pay for it. Last year, when my sister Carissa was in 8th grade, Alyssa's math teacher gave her a "C" on a test. Her father didn't agree with it and went to the teacher immediately to get the grade changed. When he refused, Mr.James got him fired within a day. After that no one at Brookshire would mess with Alyssa. Ever. Alyssa, who was apparently the prettiest girl in school with her blonde hair, bright green eyes, and skinny figure, was not the brightest bulb in the bunch. In fact she was he broken one that was accidentally dropped when you were trying to put it in. She was ridiculously stupid. She was the exact definition of a dumb blonde.
On the second week of 6th grade, Alyssa went to her father and asked him about some of the history of the town which she was honestly to stupid to understand. Her father told her that Colebrook was founded by their family and that a person from their family has been in power ever since the establishment of the city. Alyssa then asked the question that would change the history of our town forever, "Since we are like, the richest people ever and were so, like, important, why haven't we made out city more popular?"
Chapter 2
After that one question, the whole city changed in the blink of an eye. Construction workers the Mr.James hired were coming from everywhere, working on buildings, changing the rods, adding attractions. They even added a theme park that was as big as Disneyland. The whole town was getting transformed. Everything except the actual people. The people who had lived in this quiet little town all their lives had were being thrown into the 21st century and it was really freaking them out. The construction workers had things they had never seen before like computers that weren't dinosaurs and things they called cell phones. They had never heard of any of these things before. People who had been living there all their lives were considering moving because they couldn't stand haveing all this new, high-tech stuff there.
All these people were the people Mr.James had hated all of his life. The whole town was getting suspiscious that Mr.James was trying to run them out of the only life those people had ever known. At the next town council meeting, every single person in the community, including me and every other kid in the town with there parents, came to complain about the new changes Mr.James had made to Colebrooke. Mr.James had assured them that all these additons would make the town better but no one believed him until he told us his actual plan. He explained to us that he was going to bring a family in from a major city that no one had ever heard of called Seattle so that they could experience the new additions to the city and make sure that it could attract tourists here. Now to me it seemed a little suspiscious from the start that he was gonna just bring a random family here to Colebrooke to "test" out the town. The town was perfectly fine without all the new crap he had added in my opinion. I didn't think we needed all the glamour of a real, major city considering that this was Colebrooke, Pennsylvania and couldn't really become a major city, but at the time I didnt speak up because kids were not really allowed to talk at town council meetings.
At the time I didn't know it but what I was thinking was right. Mr.James had something up his sleeve that no one knew about. He knew the family that was coming from Seattle. He knew what they were capable of he just didnt tell anyone.
