Avasa O. Kennedy has had a difficult life. No more, no less.
When her birth mother found out she was pregnant there was no other choice, she was to be adopted. The family has great money issues and with two children already they couldn't stand the thought of another child suffering their struggle, they filed the paperwork immediately.
When given the selection of couples who wanted to adopt they were overwhelmed, but they had one key term in their mind: money the family must have money, to give the child everything they could not. They found a promising couple, Bob and Maureen Kennedy.
Bob was the closest thing to a millionaire one could be without being one and Maureen was a politician who wanted a child, not for maternal reasons but just because she couldn't and needed a publicity tool for her campaigns. They were selfish, career driven people with a kind housekeeper named Brenda Marchetti who would be expected to care for the child in addition to her other tasks. This was the couple the family chose.
Even in money problems, (to specify the phrase money problems did not mean they were poor or homeless it simply meant debts and lots of them) they were a loving, normal family; a mother, a father and two handsome young boys, Kyle and Ian. The whole family was very handsome, and very similar in exception to the mother, not one person could deny they were related when they were grouped. The father and two sons all had pale, snowy skin, deep set sapphire blue eyes and untidy inky, black hair. Ian was 11 and Kyle was 2 years his senior (13). This is the quality that attracted super-facial Maureen Kennedy most, there attractive family history, was there any such thing as un-attractive publicity-tool?
Everything was prepared when things all went drastically wrong.
The pregnant women received some rather extraordinary news at the hospital: she was expecting twins. Naïve as this women and her husband was they believed the couple to be pleased that they were getting a second child. They could not have been more wrong.
This would not do.
Bob and Maureen wanted one child, not two. Twins was not an option. Twins would not - could not do. But when the family started hinting if this was the case, they simply would have to find another couple. This also would not do. So the Kennedys did what they did best.
They bribed them.
Overnight, the family discovered many things, they found their debts paid off, a new car in their garage, money put aside to pay for Kyle and Ian's college and university tuition and a new house, waiting for them, if they wanted it. All in exchange for one thing, not that Avasa be given to them, that the other twin stayed with its family.
The father, after some consideration, accepted he needed to think about the majority.
Six months later, the twins were born; Brenda and her daughter Olivia were sent to fetch the child from the hospital and were set in charge of naming it. The soon to be "parents" only had one requirement the surname was to be Kennedy. Shortly after the birth the doctors handed the biological parents the first born, she was to be named Kayleigh and she was to be theirs. Brenda was fully aware of how self-absorbed, pretentious and unreliable parents her bosses would be and new that this little one had no one but her and Olivia (or so she thought at the time). She named her Avasa, independent by name independent by nature. Olivia decided her middle name should be the surname of her birth family.
Ava O'Shea Kennedy started her life without the faintest clue what was about to happen.