Like Little Orphan Annie, my life is filled with broken hearts and unfulfilled dreams. But I'm sure my Daddy Warbucks will come swooping in to heal my life up. Eventually. Okay, maybe life isn't always like the movies, but one can hope. I might not have Shirley Temple's signature curls, but I'm sure things will work out. They always do on the big screen. Or something like that. Okay fine. I'll get to the point.
My name is Mave Morgans and I'm a movie fanatic and I dream of becoming a movie star. But I'm realistic. One can dream though right? But if I do become famous and this becomes my autobiography, I'll give you some background. I'm 15 years old, a sophomore, and I have short brown hair. If you would compare me with movie starlets, I'm pretty plain. Luckily I live in Welbrooke, Michigan, so I do pretty well in look departments here. There's only three hundred students in my junior/senior high school. Twenty of them are girls of the same age. Not much competition I guess.
The most exciting thing about me may be my family. Or I should say the sob story I should use when describing my rags to riches life when I'm famous. My dad died of brain cancer when I was ten. There's not much you can do about brain cancer it seems. Once my dad got the diagnosis, it seemed like a short time until he was gone. He willed his entire movie collection to me. It's my treasure. My last connection to him. After my dad died, my brother, eighteen at the time, ran off with a women twelve years older than him. My mother took a hard hit as both her husband and brother left her. She turned to food and alcohol. In a year she gained fifty pounds. I don't really see her anymore either. She seems to have dedicated her life to her work as a veterinary assistant. There's my tragedy described in 121 words. Go ahead and count.
To be real though, I'm not writing this as an autobiography for when I become famous. There was a guest speaker today in health class. She talked about coping with problems that plagued young minds. She might have been talking about the decision of having sex or the peer pressure of trying drugs, but her suggestion of writing about our problems sounded like something I might need. I mean watching the original Star Wars films or Judy Garland's musicals may help me out, but I needed something more. So why not write a journal, make a video, or write some poetry? My tried and tested technique of trying to forget hasn't really worked the past five years. Time to try something new. And who knows. Maybe this will be read by my millions of fans one day. A girl can only hope.
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The Mave Movie
Teen FictionMave Morgans is a teenage movie fanatic with dreams to become a movie star. But she knows dreams may never come true, especially after her father died when she was ten. Five years later she's still dealing with loss as it tore apart her family, but...
