Year 6 (2nd Draft)

The Year Rules were simple.

Year 1 - Crawl
Year 2 - Walk
Year 3 - Talk
Year 4 - Start second language
Year 5 - Start school
Year 6 - Anything not completed on time from any of the preceding Years will result in Abandonment.

I wasn't much of a talker until Year 4, and because of this I never really excelled when asked to learn a second language. This left me extremely short of being bilingual and I harbored an abysmal vocabulary in the language I could speak. As a result of these underdevelopments, I wasn't permitted to start school until Year 6, but at that point it no longer mattered.

Year 6 wasn't going to be the start of a long academic career for me, like it was for most other children my age. While their futures were bright and hopeful, mine had grown dull. Year 6 was nothing more than my Year of Abandonment.

Year 6: Abandonment of Felisha Martins. Date of birth: November 19th, 2509.

Year 6 was supposed to be my breaking point, my point of no return.

Year 6 was meant to put me in my place.

But I wasn't going to let that happen.