Annie Akarui was a freshman in high school. She loved running and gymnastics. Annie was a bit shorter than all of her friends, but she liked that. She was the youngest, and by far the most mature. She had an older brother in college, who had done many things her parents had considered unacceptable. He had done drugs as a sophomore in high school, and had played with many young women's hearts. Annie was surprised that he was attending college and keeping up. After he left the house for his college dorm, his name was almost unmentioned in the family. He lived with his best friend during vacations and never visited home.
In a way, Annie's brother had caused her parents to go through a stage of depression- if you could call it that. Her parents relied on Annie to be the perfect child, the one that they had always wanted. Annie was a good history and language arts student, but she had never understood math or science (except for basic skills in math and ecology in science). She got decent grades, A- and sometimes a B or B+. Though all of her grades exceeded her brother's, her parents never took pleasure in a B or B+. Her friends said it was just typical parenting habits, but truthfully it was much worse.
Annie had always felt a little distant from her family. One morning in the office searching for some paperwork, she had come across something that changed her life forever.