Chapter 1-Amy Mizuno
I was gently tapping at the glass of the aquarium in her room watching my silver angelfish. I always loved everything about water. That was probably because my name Mizuno Amy meant "Friend of Water" in Japanese. My mother named me that because she said my deep blue eyes reminded her of the ocean. I'm 16, and live with my mother in a luxurious apartment complex in San Francisco. We live a nice life even though it's only my mother and I. My mother is a doctor and my father had abandoned us when I was only 5 years old. My father was an artist, and one day he said he was going to do a painting of the San Francisco Bay, but he never returned. He sends me postcards once in a while on my birthdays, but that was all I had left of him. I'm kind of shy around people I don't really know that well. That's probably the reason why most of my friends were the ones who went up to me and started to talk to me first. My shyness is also probably why it isn't easy for me to talk to guys. So I don't really have much of a love life. I have the reputation of the "4.0 girl genius" and a lot of people think all I do is study, which is not totally true. They don't understand I study hard because my dream is to become a doctor like my Mom when I grow up, and that's hard work. It doesn't really affect me as much the way it used to, thanks to my wonderful friends Serena, Raye, Lita, and Mina. They're very close friends of mine whom I care about very much. I feel comfortable around them it's just that.they don't know the true, real me. No one does.
I was gently tapping at the glass of the aquarium in her room watching my silver angelfish. I always loved everything about water. That was probably because my name Mizuno Amy meant "Friend of Water" in Japanese. My mother named me that because she said my deep blue eyes reminded her of the ocean. I'm 16, and live with my mother in a luxurious apartment complex in San Francisco. We live a nice life even though it's only my mother and I. My mother is a doctor and my father had abandoned us when I was only 5 years old. My father was an artist, and one day he said he was going to do a painting of the San Francisco Bay, but he never returned. He sends me postcards once in a while on my birthdays, but that was all I had left of him. I'm kind of shy around people I don't really know that well. That's probably the reason why most of my friends were the ones who went up to me and started to talk to me first. My shyness is also probably why it isn't easy for me to talk to guys. So I don't really have much of a love life. I have the reputation of the "4.0 girl genius" and a lot of people think all I do is study, which is not totally true. They don't understand I study hard because my dream is to become a doctor like my Mom when I grow up, and that's hard work. It doesn't really affect me as much the way it used to, thanks to my wonderful friends Serena, Raye, Lita, and Mina. They're very close friends of mine whom I care about very much. I feel comfortable around them it's just that.they don't know the true, real me. No one does.