Prologue

This is a story about a young teenage girl named Star Butterfly. Her family was not the most fortunate, nor the most accommodated in the community. She lived in a small house, built in an alleyway, but also near the city park. It was poorly built, but it stood up for several years. It had a few clotheslines on the back of it, a garden out front, growing vegetables, and insode, not that much room. A Queen-sized bed with four people resting in it, a tiny kitchen, a small box TV, and a table. In the house lived her mother and father, Moon and river, her aunt Hekapoo, her two grandmothers, Eclipsa and Heinous, and and her great-grandma Comet, and of course, Star. They were a happy family, stricken with poverty, but grateful for every single thing in existence that they had. Star was a fair, humble young lady, 14, modest about how she spent her money, yet her desire to have a better life drove her to try her hardest at everything, but would make a lot of mistakes, which she would sometimes dwell on. Star's family was always so low on money, they couldn't afford an apartment or house to fit all of them in one roof. All her family could afford was a public school education for Star. Star would usually save all the savings and change she'd find on the ground, and keep it in a jar until it was time for back to school. Unfortunately, she could only afford one textbook. So for her other textbooks she needed, she would study amongst a group of friends. Tom, Janna, Jackie, Alfonzo and Ferguson. She usually did well in school, and had a pretty good social life. Her mother, Moon, being the only person in the family who works, goes to work every single day, earning her salary for the family. Her husband river, however, used to be in the country military, for a few years, but then suffered an injury, losing the bottom half of his left leg, during a war, and is still in his period of healing and recovery. He now rests in a queen-sized bed next to grandma Comet and across from Gran Eclipsa and Granny Heinous. Auntie Hekapoo is usually the one who looks after the house and everyone in it. Heinous and Eclipsa both raised Moon as a young girl, and are retired elderly women, in their mid-to-late seventies. They were a humble Family, appreciative of everything around them. But they have come upon hard times now, until one fateful day...