Average High School Love Story

Journal Entry #1

Um. Hi? I don't know. How do you start a journal entry. It's not like talking to a person, but at the same time it is because your talking to the reader. Which, hopefully, is nobody but myself, Alex Ruby Jenkins. My actual full name is Alexandria Ruby Jenkins. But nobody is aloud to call me that. Not even my parents. I probably should explain that. When I was born, my father was murdered. My older sister was 7 years old. My mother raised her and I by herself. All at the time, she was suffering from the horrible thing that ruins everybody's lives. Cancer. She lost the battle 1 week ago. Child services found out I had nobody to take care of me in South Eastern Canada. My mother and father were both only child's and their parents passed away before I was born. Child services soon found out I did have an older sister who could take care of me. In California. Which means I have to move. I'm not honestly that sad or mad because at my public school, I was a loser. Nobody likes me. I dressed funny and was always the dumbest, slowest, ugliest girl in the class. I'm not disabled or ugly actually though. My skin is light brown and my hair is dark brown. My eyes are hazel, just like my mother's. Something interesting about me is that my fingernails always grew really fast. I have always loved dancing. The fact that you can move so slowly or quickly and not be judged is amazing to me. The town that I lived in didn't appreciate dancing. My sister says that the new private school I'm going to loves and encourages sports and dancing. Although it sounds like I'm exciting, I'm still depressed that my mother is gone. I can never, ever, get her back. That's beside the point. I have to go now. I have to pack up my things and get ready to catch my flight in exactly 75 hours. Or in 3 days and 3 hours. I write in this thing when I either find it again or I'm really bored. Until next time.

~Alex Ruby Jenkins August 4, 2017