A SUMMER ROMANCE

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Annie's POV

It's 4 in the morning, I need to get off my bed, or else the day won't begin. I don't want to, also I want to. If you get what I mean. I hate my life, but I love my life too, my life STEPHANIE.

Our mother has been more or less absent in our lives, we never knew who our father was. At the age of 7, mine and my sister's custody, who was 5 at that time, was handed to my Aunt, who was not so thrilled about it. She bailed on us as soon as I turned 18, crushing my dreams in the process. Now I work as a hairdresser here in Utah supporting my sister Stephanie. I want to send her to college, I want her to spread her wings and reach the sky.

I wake up everyday around 4 in the morning and go for a jog around the block and bring back day's groceries on my way back. The supermarket guy always tries to sell me magazines newspapers, I never ever read newspapers or watch news It's depressing and heart breaking. The magazines are full of people whom I can never meet or have the things that they have or advertise, why fume over the stuff I can never afford or check the lives of those who will never know me or my struggles.

I reach back home around 6 and take a shower get dressed for the day. After waking up Stephanie which takes a lot of effort and having our breakfast, I drop her to her school and make my way to my workplace "THE BARBIE". I'm not just a hairdresser here but also a coordinator, so I have to make appointments, assign work to the other girls, open in the morning and close in the night. I was one of the most trusted employees here, as I never took leave or was unorganized.

This is my life. I hate it...... yet I love it...