Prologue
Whenever I was given the question as to what I would do with my life I never thought it would happen this way. Being on a "roller coaster road" was nothing compared to what I have done? Being sick has advantages and disadvantages of course but when they involve love, decision, and change where things tend to become trivial. I told myself I would thrive in the mountains that sit in the Continental divide.
My parents basically never let me out of sight; I was diagnosed into chemotherapy with leukemia at 16, my name is Leah. I have two brothers and a sister with my life full of secrets, I was the one that was trusted but if anyone asked me I would say; "I'm the bad one". I knew it was hard for me being the oldest and all but it was the way I intended. My parents wanted for me to fit into the perfect society they had become a custom to, I did just that but it became not so perfect afterward. Lying in my bed one morning I was thinking "oh no, what are they going to try on me today?" I groaned. My clock read 7:20a.m, I figured they would be up and coming for me in another hour or so. See my parents have a bad habit of treating me like a 2-year-old learning to walk instead of a 17-year-old person! The entire house was silent from what I could hear, I knew the guys were so not up and I usually have to pry at my sister to get out of bed. The rain from the night before was still hitting against my window, I am so glad we are in the season of rainfall, yeah right! Tourists come in and out of Arapaho (Uh-RAH-puh-ho), Wyoming constantly with the tribes living here and all. From being raised here I actually managed around my parents to become known by a few young ones in the northern tribe, one in particular.