Another story by me!
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~ Johanna Kortmann
I am on writers block so I will update when I can think of something.
Thanks (:
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* PROLOGUE *
My name is Miranda, I live in Shay town, it's always been warm here, and it never rains...but I am not here to tell of my town, or my name, I am here to tell of the year I had to retake, not the same grade, but my age!
Being adopted, I had no clue who my mother was, all I have heard is that she was a child who was abducted, and was forced to get pregnant, she was found the day after she had me, or so the police assumed, but they were wrong! Truth was, when they found me and my mother, I was a year old, but nobody could tell that. I still looked young, and really couldn't do much. My mother (I did know that her name was Mary Elizabeth) wasn't dead, but was close to it and was put on life support. Her parents did not want me around, and sent me off to a foster family.
I went through several fosters, and I felt unwanted, but that was until Leandra Smith stepped in, I was 7, almost 8, and she did not want to give birth to kids, so she adopted, she had no husband, and lived on her own in a wonderful home, she was more than happy to share it with children like me. Later, when I was a 13, she adopted a boy named Adam, he was my brother, I was a teenager, and he was a 7 year old, we fault at times, but we loved one another, we were family after all, so there could be no hate in the household. He was from a bad abuse case, and I felt badly for him, and cared about him a lot.
Here is the thing that has bothered me so much! Since the police could not tell when I was born, my birth date was the day before my birth mother was found, and nobody knew who her attackers were, so nobody really knew my birth date, and when my mother was off life support, they asked her, and she had no clue. Well anyways, when you turn 16, you get to go to the huge school dance, and I had a deep crush on Andy Elvis, he too would be 16, and he liked me too, and said he would go with me to the dance the year we both turned 16! I was so ready for it, until the day the police showed up at Leandra's house and asked to speak with me...that day was the worst day of my life.
Now you are probably wondering why I stop here, I'm leaving you empty handed. That is because I want you to beg for more, to get to know me. Now I am still Miranda Smith, so don't get me wrong, but I went through things that I never would have suspected would happen to me! I wish I were told this at a younger age, because I was going through some drama like every kid does when they are a teenager. When you are a teenager in this town, all you dream about is that night of freedom, that dance! And all my dreams were crashed the day I answered the door...
- Miranda Smith
4/3/10
That's the way I left the letter, and I sent it off to the big people, and wasted that year away, waiting for the call back. Would I ever get it? Teens addicted magazine was a big magazine company, and I had always wanted to write to it, or for it, but I never knew what to write about, but when the cops questioned me that day, a part of me was angered, but another part of me was happy. I finally had a story, one that would stick out! One that nobody would agree with! I was going to do this, even if I was told no.
They called me back a year after my writing was in, they said they wanted to hear my story, and I was so excited, so I wrote and wrote. I stayed up night after night, day after day, went to school and wrote during class, took the bus ride home and did the same. I was accepted in the biggest teen magazine, and here is what I wrote.
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This is where the prologue and half of the first chapter begin!
I'll try to have chapter 1 & 2 posted before October! Please keep checking my page for updates! (:
- Johanna
