Hello! My name is Alli Bhandari. I'm fourteen years old and I'm about to start Degrassi high with my older brother Sav. I'll obviously be a freshman and he's seventeen and is going to be a junior this year. He is very protective of me and it drives my insane sometimes, but with parents who barely care about us it's nice to know he loves me and wants to protect me. It really sucks that I went to a different junior high then the other kids going into Degrassi so besides my brother Sav and his girlfriend Anya I won't know anyone. Anya is also a junior, but she's only sixteen she'll be seventeen in about six months. She's very pretty and so sweet, I love her so much she's like a sister to me. My parents still haven't met her, but I think if Sav loves her then their ridiculous opinion shouldn't matter. It won't matter to me when I fall in love if I ever do. Our town is very dark and mysterious. It's a cardinal rule that you don't go out at night alone it's dangerous suicidal even. There have been many disappearances here and even quite a few deaths.
I rarely go out at night because my parents say I'm too young, but honestly they say that about everything. I wanted to go to a sleepover or have one at our house they said I was too young, I wanted to go to a school dance they again said I was too young. I think they just want me to stay locked up in this house alone and miserable because they resent me. I was an accident and it is hard to forget that around them, they were only supposed to have Sav. I think it's totally unfair because Sav gets to go stay the night with friends, have friends over, and goes to dances, it's ridiculous.
This year is going to be better though my dad's job promoted him to a potion that involves him going away for months at a time and only staying home for maybe a week or so at a time before he leaves again to go where ever else he's assigned. He is a business man before anything else plus he never really wanted kids or to be held down by a family, he was only doing his family duty as a man and carrying on the family name as he was supposed to. My mother is going back to India for a while to take care of my grandma her mother. Really though she just wants away from us she never wanted kids she was forced into an arranged marriage dad made her have Sav and I was an accident as I've already said, a drunken mistake as I heard my mom say to my dad when I was seven. They can't wait to marry Sav and I off to some nice and of course approved by them people so they can get rid of us. They don't hate us, they just didn't want us and even now years later they still don't want us, I don't think they ever will. They've never really told us they didn't want us it was just kind of obvious. To us at least, they make us to pretend to be the perfect family when we are obviously not.
But enough of the sob story the point is they'll be gone most of this year and Sav is always out with Anya so I'll be free to do a lot more stuff like going out at night and hanging with boys and making friends and have them come over and go over to their houses. I'm beyond excited and ready for the school year to start! Not many kids would be, but my dad leaves three days before school starts and mom leaves the day before. This year is going to be amazing and I'm ready to make new friends and to hopefully meet some boys. It's time to start over and have the life I always wanted to have, the one my parents would never let me have. I bought new outfits with money I've saved up over the years, I also bought make up, nail polish, new fabulous shoes, and beautiful accessory's. I've changed my look and I'm ready to change my life. Look out Degrassi here I come ready or not.