Alone

I was alone. It wasn't always like this. I had a mom, and a dad, who loved me with all their heart. We didn't have much money but that didn't matter as long as we were together. We lived in a small town surrounded by cornfields. I went to a small school where everyone knew everyone. My mom worked as a nurse at the local hospital, and my dad was the history teacher at the high school. But that was before. Before the car crash, before my dad died, before the woman I thought was my mom was walked out of the small apartment where we lived in handcuffs. Before they took me to live with strangers I've never met, who think I'm their kid. Before I gained two older brothers and an army of band members as my family. My name is Alejandra and this is the story of how I found out I was a Fuentes.