Genesis || ✔

[ The Vow ]

I couldn't tell you when it all began – it was kind of impossible to pinpoint the exact moment – but as cliché as it sounds, it just happened. That's how it is with everything gone south in my life. They just happen.

Like in junior year when I lost my virginity to Peter Haynes after getting shit faced drunk at my first party without Z. We got together eventually, Peter and I, until he became exceedingly clingy and I had to dump him. And like in senior year when I had my first puff of smoke. At first, I started with cigarettes, but then somehow, I found myself hooked on weed. And then at the graduation party, I made out with two guys consecutively. If it wasn't for Z, I might have ended up in a threesome, where one of the aforementioned guys actually had a girlfriend.

Promiscuous, the kind ones called me. The others would just outright call me a slut, or a whore.

I guess it was what you'd expect from the daughter of Lia Chen. Pregnant at sixteen, got an abortion; slept with the abusive boyfriend who got her big the first time and got knocked up again. The second time, she was nineteen. Finally deciding she had enough, mom left the guy with her belly all round. She named me Genesis, because I was her new beginning, a chance for her to rewrite her book.

Anyway, she dated around after that but never got married, and I was an illegitimate child.

The townsfolk probably thought I'd be a teenage mom as well, but I was smart. Smarter than my mom at least. I used protection.

As it were, I was eager to get away from the small town that I grew up in, and the opportunity presented itself in the form of college. I was going to the furthest place I could get into, and the best part was that I had Z (and his girl June) with me.

Z was my best friend ever since he moved in next door when we were kids. Z had it good – his family was the perfect all-American kind you'd see on TV, complete with the white picket fence and cheery stay-at-home mom who seemed to be baking some form of heavenly delicacy every other day. His dad was a banker, and with Z being an only child, he used to be a rich, spoiled brat. But I think I managed to keep him at bay, because he turned out quite okay. And what with us hanging out so much, people thought we'd get together (our parents shipped us very, very hard) but nope, Z found the Rose to his Jack – June. Kind, sweet, smart June who understood that Z and I were kind of a package deal, and never got in the way when I needed my best friend. She deserved Z, and I was more than happy for them.

College was supposed to be my own Genesis, my one shot at rewriting my book. I didn't want to be known as the girl who slept with half the town for the rest of my life, though I pretended I didn't mind, the title bugged me to no end. I didn't exactly plan to sleep with any of the guys (there were three) I slept with, it just happened. But if I could go back in time, I would stop my dumbass from ever going down that road.

I wanted to be remembered for something other than the town whore. I needed to be something more. And so I made a vow of chastity – that I would choose abstinence throughout my college years, and that my days of hard partying were over.

But as it were, life has a funny way of screwing you over. This time, life threw at me Seth Vasquez.