Yet Alone || Shawn Mendes

Chapter 1 ~ Yet Alone

Kaelen's POV

"Kaelen Avery", the most popular girl in school. I'm her. Every guy wants to get with me, and every girl wants to be me. Every girl but me. I don't want to be me. The only reason I'm known in school is because I have a rich family. Don't get me wrong, I love my life as of right now. But no one knows how I got put into that family.

When I was about 5, my mother passed away. Leaving my father devastated, which caused drinking, smoking, and all sorts of things that weren't healthy. He abused my older brother, Michael, and I. It was that way for 4 years until I was 9.

Michael was 16 at the time when he had enough torture. He committed suicide, leaving me with my father alone.

That's when the abuse got worse. My own father had sexually abused me. I didn't find the guts to tell anyone until I was 11, about the abuse. That's when the police put my father away.

After all that, I was tossed around from one foster home to another for 3 years. Until a family actually wanted to adopt me. The Avery's. My original last name is Destiel, but I've never told anyone. It's great with the Avery's. I'm now 16, I've been living as Kaelen Avery for about a 2 years now.

I started Ross High during the end of freshman year. Sophomore year was when I hit popularity.

I hate snotty popular people. I swore I would never become a bully. Because after all, no one deserves to be abused, not even verbally. I guess I fit in with people who are misjudged.

My past still haunts me. Every once in a while, I get panic attacks. I wake up in the middle of the night, remembering what my father had done, to me and my brother. My heart rate increases and my breathing gets harder. I also have horrible insomnia. Sometimes, I can't sleep for even days at a time.

When everyone likes me for the family that I live in, it's hard to find someone to trust. Of course I have friends, but none that I believe would keep my secret. None that would truly care for me. Only people who use me for my fame at school. I've lived with the dark secret of my past my whole life. I've never revealed it to anyone.

I'm surrounded by people, yet i feel so alone.

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