I Am Anna

I couldn't come back. If I returned to that wretched place I called home my life would be made even worse than it already was. But I didn't want to end my life. I was depressed by everything that had happened, but I wanted to make a new life for myself, not finish off the poor excuse for the one I already had. So that's what I had to do - start again. - And that's what I did. My cousin, Yasmin, let me stay with her in her apartment and she was the only one in Augusta who knew who I really was. I changed my name from Anna Clayton to Blair Samuels and made some amazing new memories with my new friends, in a new school, in a new city. But one day, Yasmin told me that we had to move back to Portland. Portland held all the reasons why I ran away in the first place, and I was forced to go to back to my old school, with my old 'friends', in an old city with my old - but terrible - memories. Just when I thought everything was going to be okay, my world came crashing down again. And it got even worse. As well as the fact that everyone had to get over the shock that I had staged my suicide so that no-one would come looking for me and that I was actually very much alive, the chaos started haunting me again. Just when the reasons for my leave resurfaced and my secrets were unravelled, someone had to complicate things by bringing love into my life. Alex Quinn, the 'playboy' of Darthill High School, hadn't left and was still up to his old tricks. When he set his sights on me, the seemingly mysterious girl with the shocking return after two years of absence, I thought I wouldn't have time for his unnecessary antics. But was he really just an irritating disturbance, or could he end up being a huge help? Either way, I had to come to a realisation: I am not Blair. I am Anna. I am Anna, and this is my life.