Roommates

Chapter 1

It was two weeks away from going to school. I was one of the first people in my family to attend college. My mom dropped out of high school her 11th grade year because she was pregnant with me. My dad started to hang around the wrong crowd, he got caught up into selling drugs to provide for us, went to jail a few times, and even popped a few heads. He calmed down a lot since I went to high school. He actually got a real job as some kind of janitor at a local school. My mom on the other hand, has to quit her job as a security force because if my little brother behavior problems with babysitters. We found out he has ADHD. It's nothing serious, he's just hyper than normal kids. He likes to make a lot of noise & jump off couches and shit. Ever since my mom and dad split, we haven't been living too good. We moved into an apartment, started to get welfare checks, food stamps etc. we didn't have much, but we worked with what we had. I was just glad we didn't live in a bad neighborhood.

I was always a shy, quiet girl. I guess kids from school didn't think so since most of them spoke to me daily. Or maybe i was accepted just because I dressed nice? you're probably thinking how'd you dress nice if you didn't have much. When you shop at stores like Forever21 and h&m, you didn't need much Benjamins in your pocket. Besides, I always knew how to put pieces together to make me look like money. I don't know where I got my fashion sense from, my mom was plain jane & my dad dressed like every other dads. I guess I learned from social network, magazines, tv & all.

I'm not most people's "ideal girl". I'm a tall, coco skin, slim girl with natural hair that stops right at my shoulder. Majority of the time, I wear my hair in curls simply because my hair can't stay straight. It always poofs back up right after I flat iron it. Some people would say I remind them of the teenage singer Justine Skye, I don't agree though. She's way too gorgeous! The people that think I'm beautiful probably only think that because of my high cheekbones & almond-shaped eyes. Those were my best features.