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"Ashley, hazme un favor y ayuda a tu hermano a sacar sus cosas del caro que es bruto hasta para eso" (Ashley, do me a favor and help your brother bring his things out the car, his dumb self can't even do that) My mom yelled as she helped my dad bring furniture into the new house.

I rolled my eyes and gasped annoyed. I quickly slid my phone back into my back pocket and speed walked to the car.

I looked around for my brother Brandon, he's 17 Years old we're only a year apart. Brandon never helped our parents with shit.All he really did was wander off to some skate park near downtown L.A, or just go to his friends house.

He's never home for a long period of time he likes going out to places just like I do except I know my limits to wander off and not telling my parents where the fuck I could've gone and come back home 4 hours later.

At one point me and him were inseparable. We were each other's best friends up until he started 9th grade and I started 8th grade. He completely cut me off, our relationship at the moment is literally based on saying hey,wassup, knowing we live in the same house ,cooking and cleaning.

We sometimes had very short conversations but it usually always ended in one of us yelling at each other. We get it from our parents.

Me and my family recently moved into a bigger home in one of the very few decent areas L.A still has. The only good thing about moving was that now I'm closer to my best friend Noelia's house.
She's 16 aswell, and drop dead gorgeous. Me and Noelia have been best friends since the 5th grade surprisingly, with all the arguments that has happened between us we're still pretty tight.

Noelia and I had our own little group of friends. We referred ourselves as our own specie, in a separate world away from all the crazy shits that's been happening in our country.

Can't forget about the guy friends either can we ? Kamrin & Ki. They're blood brothers.

We met Kamrin & Ki at coachella when we were 14. They're somewhere around our age, but really cool to people to be around. They're their own person aswell just like me and Noelia. They know wassup.

Ever since that day at coachella we've all been pretty close friends I guess you could say.

Furthermore, My birthday was an event me and my friends and a lot of more people would always look forward to because I threw these big ass parties every year, I called it a gathering .. my parents called it a party because it was really like a quinceñera type party except it was every once a year on my birthday, but this year it's different, it's special to me.

I'll be turning 17 finally. sucks to be a junior. One step closer to finally graduating high school and moving out. This is the story of how I ended up giving my life up in exchange for others safety and happiness.

Enjoy luv.