Her name was Kat; she was not the smartest or prettiest girl. Though it may have been what her father said to her that messed with her self-image. We will go through some of her oldest memories, in this one she was about five. She lived in what could be called the Mexican ghetto, which was unfortunate since she was white. Kat went to a school that was not far from where she lived, and things were not always well. Many of the school children would hit her or make fun of her; she in turn would become mad at herself wonder why no one liked her. Her family was poor, therefore she got many of her clothes from thrift stores and that made her angrier that her family could never seem to have anything nice. When she was living in the "ghetto" something she has never forgotten happened:
I had been playing outside near some houses when a girl named Angie had run up to us holding a cute little kitten. Angie was about my age, she had a mom who was not very nice to her. They lived in a second floor apartment across from us. Sometimes I would see her mom would buy stuff in little packages from this old skinny guy, I didn't like her mom because sometimes she would get mad at Angie and hold her near the balcony threatening to throw her off if she didn't behave. Angie had ran to us holding the kitten, she wouldn't let me hold it which made me mad. Then for some reason that I didn't understand Angie dropped the kitten on the ground and starting stomping on it. I told her to stop but she wouldn't, when she had finally stopped the kitten's little body was flat like all her bones had been crushed. At first I had been shocked then I started to cry, but Angie didn't understand why I was crying.
That event had taught her that some people are cruel for no other reason than to take out their anger on things smaller than them.
There were a lot of things in Kat's life that made her depressed. Her family was always moving around but what made it bad is that they would live in junkyards. Her father was a mechanic he could be called an eccentric genius, because there was nothing he couldn't fix, but to Kat he was to be feared….