A/N this is a story I had to write for an English assignment, hope you like it

What family means to me…

Standing up in front of my whole class preparing to read my assignment out to them would have to be the most nerve-racking thing I have ever done because to me this isn't just my assignment, this is my life story, all my thoughts about being adopted on one piece of paper. I take a deep breath then take a step forward and start reading…

"At the age of 11 Belinda and William Edmonds had told me that I was adopted, at the time I was completely devastated and annoyed with them that they hadn't told me earlier. But I guess I kind of knew in a way that Belinda and William weren't my birth parents; I have always felt different and out of place around them and I look nothing like either of them. I have shoulder-length loose blonde ringlets and dark blue almond-shaped eyes while Belinda has dead straight jet black hair flowing down to her waist and light brown eyes and William has short spiky brown hair and dark brown eyes."

"I am now 15-years-old and have accepted that I am adopted, I do wish that I could meet my birth parents some day, to see what they look like and, if I resemble them in anyway but they never left any type of contact details, so I guess I just have to live without meeting them. Sometimes I wonder if I have any siblings, or what my parents were like, or why they put me up for adoption, no body knows why or how they could have done it, but I would like to think that they did it because they couldn't look after me properly, and that they wanted me to have a good life, not because they didn't want me, or because they had better things to do then looking after me"

"Even though Belinda and William aren't my birth parents, they're still the closest thing I have to family and I'm fine by that, and if I had ever met my birth parents and they wanted me to live with them, I would have said no, because to me Belinda and William are my parents, they were the ones that were there to see me take my first step, hear me say my first word, and make me the person I am today and I would not change that for the world"

I take a look at my class, my friends smiling proudly at me for finally being able to talk about it all. I smile back then look back down at my sheet of paper to finish off.

"To me family isn't just about sharing the same DNA; it's about being there for each other and loving each other no matter what, thank you for listening."

I hope you guys liked it, I know it's short but it had to be in between 400-500 words describing a certain time in their life, pretty easy for year 10 work, huh?

xx .