THINGS CHANGE Chapter 1
"(1/AB)=(1/AC)+(1/ AD). Who can tell me how to solve this?" Mrs. Aslinn.
Advanced Triginometry 12. What fun to finsh my day out every single day of my senior year in high school.
Hi! I'm Kaylee Johnson! I'm 18 and a senior at Bank's Academy in Los Angeles. I have long brown hair that stretches to the middle of my back and brown eyes. My mom tells me they twinkle when the light hits them but, I think she's just an odd one. But, I love her! And my dad, too! I'm 5' 4'' and slim but also have muscle because, you guessed it, I'm head cheerleader. Of course I could only allow the team to where their uniforms on Friday's during football season due to the stupid school uniform policy, and since football season was over we had to where the same gray sweater and blue plaid skirt that came to the middle of my thighs and same balck socks and heels everyday of my high school carrer.
We were the Bank's Academy Knights and we cheered on our football players every Friday night or in some cases a Saturday night. Anyway back to reality.
I raised my hand and Mrs. Aslinn pointed to me.
"I think the key to the solution may lie in triangle A1A3A4. In this triangle, A3A4 is the same as A1A2, so the lengths of the sides of this triangle are A1A2, A1A3, and A1A4 - the three lengths involved in the equation we are supposed to verify. And in this triangle, the angle at A1 is pi/7; the angle at A3 is 2pi/7; and the angle at A4 is seems that perhaps using the law of sines we should be able to show that in a triangle whose angles are in the ratio A:B:C = 1:2:4, the sides a, b and c satisfy the relation 1/a = (1/b)+(1/c)" I said.
"Correct." She replied.
The bell rang and she called out our homework as we all slammed our books. I walked out of the classroom and down to my locker.
"Hey! You need a ride home today?" I asked my best friend Stacey.
"Please?" She asked looking at me.
"Sure! On the way home do you want to stop at Pinkberry?"
"Sounds good! Just let me call my mom on the way to the car."
"Ok."
I had a silver two door cobalt and it was kinda a mess but wasn't too bad.
"Kaylee she said I can go as long as I'm home by 9."She said as she climbed in the passenger seat.
"Ok well since you don't gotta be home til 9 you wanna go to the mall?"I asked starting up the car and putting my seatbelt on.
"Sure sure."
I pulled out of the parking spot and the jerk that I lived next to pulled out right in front of me.
"Geez, Nathan do you think you could pull out any faster?" I yelled.
"Road rage!" Stacey jokeingly yelled.
"Shh. No distracting the driver." I smiled.
Nathan was my next door neighbor ever since I moved here from Mississippi. He got on my last nerve. He was ok to talk to at times but other times he was just a complete idiot.
"I can't believe tomorrow is our last day of school. Then on Saturday, we graduate." I said to Stacey as we pulled out of the school and drove around the twists and turns.
"I know! We get to leave all the little teenybobber drama behind us and you choose a new captain tomorrow." She replied.
The rest of the day was a blast. I got my graduation dress and shoes. The dress was white, tied behind my neck, had pink flowers on it, went to the top of my knees and accented my tan skin.
"Mom! Dad! I'm home!" I yelled walking through the back door and putting my dress on the counter.
"Hey sweetie did you get your dress?" My mom asked me.
I looked nothing like my mom. She had blonde hair, I had brown, she had blue eyes, I had brown, she was biggish, I was small. It just didn't fit right. It's seriously like I'm adopted and they aren't telling me, but that is impossiable.
"Yes I did! But! You can't see it until Saturday." I replied.
"Ok! Daddy is going to cry. You do know this right?"
"Mom, I have been prepared for him to cry since the day I became a senior."
"I'm sure you have! Oh, me and Mrs. Cameron have decided to have yours and Nathans graduation parties together."
"Aww mom! Why do I even have to share a party with him?" I whined to her.
"Kaylee Anne you have known him since you were three there is no need for two to not share the same party. So you guys fight like your married. That just means your falling in love."
"Ya right! Like I would ever fall in love with him!"
I turned on my heel and bounced up to my room. I had my own bathroom so I could take an hour long shower and it wouldn't effect anyone.
I turned on the shower and took my clothes off and got in the shower.
I usually didn't come out of my room, only when we had dinner, which they already did, and when we had to go somewhere. Other than that my room was my best friend.
"Kaylee why do you always seclude yourself in your room?" My dad asked as he walked in.
"There are these times when I need my space and I just don't want anyone else around here to do it."I replied.
"Sometimes you make me wonder girl."
He turned and walked away.
Saturday before graduation I was standing in my room trying to figure out just one thing with my sister.
My sister was 15 and her name was Anne. She had blonde hair like her mom and was a bit chubby around the waist and stood at 5' 1".
"Anne, why don't I look like anyone else?" I asked her.
"What do you mean Kay?" She asked.
"You and mom have a small chests and then you got me who has freakin zonkers! I'm small and you and mom have meat on your bones. I have brown hair you guys have blonde."
"I don't know, Kaylee. I think your just bein weird."
"Maybe."
"Kaylee, Nathan is here."My mom yelled up the steps.
"Coming!" I yelled,"Time to go face the jerk!"
"I'll see you later." Anne yelled as I grabbed my cap and gown and my high heels.
"I'll see you guys later." I said running out the door.
I walked out to the car and climbed in and looked forward.
"Hey Kaylee." Nathan said.
Nathan was 6'1'' he had blonde locks that went to the side when he waved his hair. He was built had crystal blue eyes and at times could be the sweetes person I've met and other times a complete jerk.
"Hi." I said with a smart remark.
"Seriously, what is the damage between us?"
"Us? Nathan you always sit there and make fun of me for every little thing I do and it gets very stressful after a while."
"Kaylee, I'm sorry if I've ever said anything that hurt you in anyway. That's just my way of joking around and I really didn't mean to hurt you."
"It's ok. But hey I have a question." I said looking at him.
"What's that?" He asked.
"Do you think I look different than everyone in my family?"
"What do you mean?"
"I look nothing like my parents. It's like I was either adopted or I was a tester cake and I don't look a whole lot like them. That's how it is with Ashley Miller. Her birth certificate says that it's her real parents and she looks nothing like them."
"There's only one way you can find out."
"How?"
"Today at our graduation party before we actually go out infront of everybody I will help you and we have to go to your dad's den and find your birth certificate."
"Ok. Your a life saver."
"As smart as you are for being Valedictorian I'm surprised you didn't think of it yourself."
"Your real cute."
"Yes I am."
I was sitting in my seat fiddling with my Valedictorian medal when my name was called.
"Ladies and gentlemen the 2007 Valedictorian, Kaylee Johnson." Principal Underwood called.
"Good afternoon, since I moved here from Mississippi when I was three I have wondered what my high school life wold be about. My mom always told me that when I was younger I had the biggest mouth and that she always knew when I was coming toward her. Being head cheerleader and taking the position as Valedictorian has meade me wonder. What will I major in when I graduate? It's not about how many friends you have in high school of what sports you do, but it's about wheater you are proud of where you are from. I don't care about how many fights we have or how many games we lose. I care about being a Bank's Academu Knight! As I stand here today I realize that we have all matured and are ready to continue on our lives in college. I'm going to miss all of you when we walk across this stage and see each other for the last time! Thank you guys so much for being the best class! Thank you!"
I walked back to my seat and cried.
"Kaylee Ariana Johnson!" The principal said.
I smiled and walked across the stage and received my diploma and turned my tassle to the other side and walked back to my seat.
When the ceremony was over Nathan and I went back to the house and everybody was there in the backyard which gave us the perfect chance to go to my dads den.
"Where is it at?" I asked frantically.
"Here it is!" I heard Nathan yell.
He pulled out my birth certificate and it wasn't what we expected.
"Oh my god." He said.