Note: New story, I own the story not the characters. I am working on finishing up the other stories as well, bare with me. Love ya!! Enjoy
Entry #1
Some told me once that writing can be a way to relieve stress, it's good therapy so here goes. Sometimes you wish you could go back to being a child. I know I
wish I could. I had the best time of my life then. My twin and I were the luckiest kids on earth or so we thought. We had the most loving parents and the best
friends. We weren't rich in material things but we were rich in happiness. Mina and I ( Serena) couldn't have asked for more. Oh and my best friend lived next door
to me. His name was Darien Shields. He was three years older than me but that didn't make a difference. When I turned fourteen- I'll never forget- he gave me my
first kiss. It was electrifying. He was also my first love, but that's all in the past. When you're that young people don't actually count it but it counts in my book.
When Mina and I were 15 our parents died in a plane crash on the way home from going on a vacation that they both deserved. They just didn't deserve their fate.
Darien was getting ready for college that upcoming fall...our lives were turned upside down. We had only one distant family member living on our father's side. An
uncle our father's side. Our mother was the only child to her parents but they passed away long before we were born. Well we lived with him for two years- no
choice. Darien and I promised to keep in touch but it was very difficult. Our uncle was horrible, we couldn't believe he was our father's brother. We were practically
his servants. We were just hoping a miracle would happen and our parents would turn up but they didn't. He took us in because he felt like he owed our father.
The last straw was when he tried to rape Mina and I had to hit him over the head with a lamp to save her from the trauma. It knocked him out and we packed
what we could and took whatever money we could and left. With the money we had saved from our parents were able to get a small one bed room apartment
which we didn't mind because we were inseparable at this point.
I ended up getting a job at a bistro and Mina had a job at a bookstore. We were able to get a small car for transportation.. but that was years ago. It's
funny that I just started pouring all of this out. I guess writing is therapeutic. At 19 we were able to get us a two bedroom apartment with some pretty decent
furniture from different places. We're twenty two now and still at the same apartment and we are taking
online classes for college. It okay I guess. It's hard really, not having anything...I want to be an interior designer but it will take awhile. I wish my parents were
alive. Our lives would be so different. I haven't seen Darien since I was fifteen. I still think about him at times but my memory is so rusty now and the old pictures of
the kids we used to be seem like someone else's life. I wonder if I ever cross his mind... enough with all this past stuff. I'm a grown woman now. I started a new
job this month. I'm not proud of it but hey it puts food on the table and clothes on our backs. Mina and I share everything since we're the same size. We split the
bills too but this helps me give her a break. Well we both have stuff that we don't let the other wear besides bras and panties – ha ha! Well my dumb job is that
I'm an exotic dancer or what some call it- a stripper. I know it's not the best job in the world and some find it degrading but what do you do when your back is
against the wall and all you have is your looks? The army is not for me. When Mina found out she was really shocked. She said, " Serena I can't believe you. It's just
not you. That's more like a job for me, not you." I laughed bitterly. Who would've thought. After all Mina is way more outgoing than me. Mina now works in a beauty
parlor doing make up and she waitresses on the side. I still work at the bistro I started at years ago. I'm hoping they may promote me to assistant manager soon.
I believe I deserve it. The manager/owner, Jed is a really close friend of ours. We use to date for a while. It just didn't work out. Now he's like a brother- in a weird
way. Anyways, it like seven o'clock at night and I have to be a work at ten. I need to eat something and get ready for work. Maybe I'll write again...
Serena Ashington
Note: that's all for this chappie! Let me know what you think...
