Hi, I'm Tiltyu Freege. I'm sixteen years old and a junior at Jugdral Regional High School. I live with my mother, older brother and younger sister in a townhouse apartment. We used to live in a normal house, but then my parents got divorced and Mom moved away. The apartment's hers.
We used to live with Dad, but he died last summer. It was hard for us and we're still getting over it, and in doing so we moved from the old house into Mom's place. Too many bad memories, I guess. Plus, Mom has the coolest apartment ever-she lives right above a comic shop! My friends and I are really into Japanese manga and trading cards.
I suppose now I should tell you all about my friends.
Blume frowned as he studied his sister's paper.
"When your creative writing teacher said to write your life story as a novel, I don't think he had The Babysitter's Club in mind for an inspiration," he said.
"Oh, that's just the beginning! Keep reading, it gets better," Tiltyu said. Blume shrugged.
"I guess I should tell you about my friends. We all go to JRHS, and there's a lot of us! Ayra, Azel (my boyfriend), Lex (has a crush on Ayra), Levin, Sylvia, Fury, Lachesis, Holin, Bridget, Edain, Noish-see, you're going to run out of paper at this point," Blume laughed. "Oh, and see here you even talk about the crazy outfit Sylvia wore last week!"
"I thought it was neat!" Tiltyu protested. "Not many people can pull off the nineties look, you know!"
"It still doesn't matter. This is your autobiography, not a fashion commentary," Blume said. Tiltyu sighed.
"I'm just not very good at writing the truth! You know me, I like romance and drama and off the wall humor and all things exciting," she said.
"Then at least use a better book series for your inspiration," Blume snorted. "You should be reading great classics, like-"
"We've had this argument a million times," Tiltyu cut him off, "and it never ends with me following your advice. If I go read these great classics you love so much-"
"-it's not because I told you to, you've said that a million times as well," Blume finished. "But I can give you some better books to work from, or even movies or TV shows. The Sandlot was pretty good at the narrative monologue thing."
"I haven't seen that one since I was little! Might be nice to watch it again," Tiltyu said. Blume gave her his copy, and she ran off to pop it in her DVD player. Within minutes she was re-working her paper from scratch.
