Nina's Pov:

Hello. My name is Nina Baxter. Welcome to my life. I have a dad, a step-mom named Shannon, & two stepsisters named Jonnie & Jenny. We all lived a happy life together. But things started to go downhill one day.

June 21st, 2001. My dad was just coming in from his job to pick me up from school. But the poor man didn't see what was coming. He crashed into a drunk woman driving a 2001 Ford truck. "DAD!" I screamed as soon as my dad's car & the woman's Ford collided. I ran up to him. & I tried my best to wake him up on my own. But of course, I couldn't so I had to call 911. They came immediately, of course. "is he going to be ok?" I said to one of the paramedics as he rolled my dad into the back of the ambulance. "we don't know, Mrs. Baxter." he said to me. As soon as the ambulance left, I took out my cell & called Shannon & my stepsisters to come & pick me up. They soon came in Shannon's pink dune Buggy. I got into her car & we drove off to the hospital to see my dad.

Once we got there, Jenny & Jonnie were fighting. They are singers & dancers. On the stage, they have strong teamwork going on. But off the stage, they are completely cat & dog with each other. I only wish that they could get along with each other off the stage as well as they do on it. "Girls! Girls!" Shannon called to them. "it's impolite to fight in a hospital waiting room." the doctor eventually came in after 2½ hours of waiting. "well." I said to him. "what's happening to my dad?" all the doctor had to say to me back was. "I'm sorry." I soon found out that it had meant:

"your father's injuries are too serious to keep him alive any longer."

I went to my dad's room with Shannon, Jenny, & Jonnie. & we found that my dad was no longer breathing. My Stepfamily was upset. (well, to me, at least) but I was the one who was the most upset. "dad. We'll all miss you." I said, stroking his cheek in sadness. I kissed him upon the forehead. & eventually, his funeral took place. How could this be? When I was in kindergarten, I lost my mom. In 4th grade, my dad Married Shannon. & now, he left us. I'm sure he had already re-met my mom.

"this stinks." Jonnie said while we were at my dad's funereal. "why did it have to be Harvey? It should've been Nina." I was shocked that Jonnie insulted me like that. But I ignored it & looked at my dad's grave. Shannon, Jenny, & Jonnie wouldn't do anything bad to me, right?

We left the funeral & got home as soon as it was noon.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I know I said I'd put this up during whenever I got off from school for the summer. But I got bored. & I had so many great ideas for this. & hey, I'm on spring break. So there's still no School to get in the way of writing this. sorry it's short, too. but i want to save everything else for the other chapters. & there will be different books before we get to the "cinderella ball" thing. REVIEW!

- idreamofcomedy.