Alex Drake's story

Chapter 1

Date: 11th April,1994. Also known as the date on which I was born.

That day! The day I was born - 11th of April, 1994.

I wish I wasn't born then. The perfect child,  Spencer Hastings, was born on that day, too. Why did God want me to be born? I don't know. Maybe fate wanted me here : to get adopted by an English family, to live a rough life in England, to have bad boyfriends, to be in an orphanage, to be sold by my OWN mother, and to become A.D.

We, my sister and I, we were born in a madhouse. However,  my sister was given to a family of lawyers - the Hastings. They were one of the richest families in Rosewood. I was adopted by a wealthy family, too. My mother, Mary Drake, told me that when we met, she had been thinking that my new family would give me everything I wanted and that they would be good parents. Well, everything she'd thought was wrong.

The first 5 years weren't that bad because I was a little kid. You know that children only think about toys and games. They are carefree.

The problems actually started when I was 8 years old. My parents forbade me almost everything. But this moment is not for this chapter, I'll tell you some other time.

Now I am wondering if I was born first and given to the Hastings, I wouldn't have become A.D., I wouldn't be that crazy and desperate for a family and friends, I would have the loving family I have always wanted, I would be Toby's girlfriend, I would be tortured by -A, I would have true friends, and I would be Spencer Hastings.

You are asking abut Spencer? Oh, she would be Alex Drake. She would be the one who was sold to an English couple, the one that was thrown away, she would be A.D., she would be abandoned at an orphanage, and she would be the miserable one out of the two of us.

And I would be the happy one.