Aesthetic - Jaden Hossler

50.

Jaden encouraged Alice to shoot a video for her channel. If she didn't like it, she didn't need to post it. 

They sat everything up and started to brainstorm on what to do. 

Alice called Addison and invited her over so that they could film the story of Alice's upbringing to a full extend. 

Addie gladly came over, sitting down on the couch, next to her sister. 

Jaden was behind the camera with a notebook that contains bullet points for Alice in case she forgets something. 

"How do we do this? Addie could come to you when you get adopted by them." 

"That's a good idea actually." 

With that Addison was gone from the couch and sat beside Jaden. 

"Let's try it so that we have to cut only a few things." 

"Ready when you are."

 "Here we go, I guess." 

Alice waved awkwardly at the camera. 

"Hi, I am Alice Easterling and this is my Story, I guess." 

"Okay, lets cut here. Do you want to edit the photos you have in?" 

"I think that would be the best, so that people can actually see it." 

"Okay. Maybe Josh or Bryce can help you with editing for the first time. " 

"Let's go again." 

"I am currently twenty-one years old and I turn twenty-two on the twenty-eight of June. I was born in 1998 in Vietnam and my parents immigrated to Germany in the year two thousand, so when I was two. My parents gave me to a children home after a few weeks. They wanted to do it immediately when they came to the country but they had to wait until they had my birth certificate." 

"We'll blend it in somewhere here." 

"Right. Jaden is here. Come say hello." 

Jaden stood up from beside her sister and waved at the camera before he returned. 

"I have to mention, that this information is still brand-new for me as well. I just got the final call from the children's home I was in, yesterday."

 Addison had brought her something to drink, so she paused for a second. 

"Okay, the first time I got adopted, I was five, until I was eight. They were nice at first but they were really mean to me at the end, I was like a little Cinderella before the fairy godmother came along. Oh, and they were half Dutch, so I learned German and Dutch with them. I can't actually speak Vietnamese. I don't remember anything. Not sure if my parents talked to me." 

Alice looked at the pictures she had with the family, not sure if she should edit them in. 

She did and blurred the faces of everybody else. 

"Okay, so I was in the orphanage again, from eight to nine, in a different one this time. Then a couple adopted me and moved to America when I was ten. Then they decided that having children wasn't their thing, and gave me up for adoption again. That was in Texas." 

She had many pictures with that couple, on most of them Alice had a terrible sunburn. 

"Okay, I'm back in the system. This time on a different continent, state, everything. I was very lucky, that my school in Germany taught English off of grade one, so when I was six. I of course wasn't as good as the native speakers, but I learned a lot in the year with the other children."