Whenever people hear my name they automatically think of pink. That's all I am to them; pink, fluffy, happy Carmen. Well that was not who I wanted to be.

If you look it up on the Internet, the personality for pink means you are loving, kind, generous and sensitive to the needs of others.

And yes, while I am all of those things according to my friends, I don't need to wear pink every second of every day and not every aspect of my life is pink. And so that's the state of mind I was in when the change started.

I am Carmen Howle. I'm 14 years old, and I live at Elm Tree House, also known as the Dumping Ground. And the change I mentioned is where this story, my story, begins…

OOC: This is technically only an introduction so yes it's very short. The other chapters will obviously be longer. :)