My name is Demetria Shaw. I'm 17 years old. I have an older brother named Devin whose 20, he's in college. My mom and my dad got a divorce when I was 12. Then one day my dad disappeared, but I'm actually the only one who knows where he is. He made it seem like he was dead because he's hiding from some people who want his projects. You see, he's an inventor. He's created some of the most amazing things. And I'm one of them.

I know what your thinking. Yes, those are really my parents and my brother. But as soon as I was born, my dad begun using me as a test subject for his new idea. And the end result, was me.

I'm some type of weird android type thing. My brain is a super computer. I have a normal human body and organs and do everything a does and goes through. One weird thing though?

My eyes change colors. So that people wouldn't notice, he gave me a necklace that filters the color of my eyes into it. They're like a mood ring, my mood at the time reflecting in them.

But back to my mom. After my dad left, she met this dude named Shawn. He's nothing but trouble. He's into drugs and anything else illegal. And earlier, when I said everything about me is human, I meant it. When I was 14, he tried to rape me. Luckily, the police came looking for him, and soon he was arrested. He was gone for 3 years but now he's out and back with my mom.

He beats me when he's mad, high, drunk, or all of the above. My mom is too high herself to do anything. Those 3 years he was gone, she was the spitting image of what she used to be, a loving mother. But all that is gone now.

Another thing is that I'm in high school and I get teased every second I spend in the building. This girl named Jamie and her pack of STD infested hyenas do everything possible to break me down.

I hate my brother in a way. One time he came to visit and it wasn't pretty. He raised hell when he saw what my mom become and what she let happen to me. All the bruises scattered across my body. He promised me that he would come and take me away from here. But that was 2 years ago, and I haven't seen or heard from him since.

But let's get (or at least try to) on a positive note. I was born on April12th, 1995. I'm a solid 5'0. When I'm wearing the necklace, my eyes are hazel.

I have a gymanst type of body mixed with the body of a curvy girl. I guess that's why, I get looks from guys all the time. I don't really have a style, but if I had to catergorize it, I'd say rocker goth mixed with girly flare, a dash of tomboy thrown onto a high fashio model. That's the best way for me to explain it. My hair is dark brown and stops around my lower back. All together, I have about...14 piercings. 5 in each ear, my tongue, my nose and my belly button. Because I get called ugly so much, I don't even look at myself in the mirror. I just make sure that any bruises I have aren't visible and do something to my hair.

My skin is really light because my mom is Brazilian and Columbian and my dad is British, you know like from the UK? He thought it would be funny if he set my voice to make it sound like I'm from England. Nobody really knows though because I don't speak. Which leads me to my next point.

At school, I'm a mute. The teachers gave up trying to get me to speak. Especially since I'm in the Gifted part of the school. Super brain, remember? I go to a private school called the Edgar G. Sullivan Township Academy. We wear unifforms, 4 days out of the week and are allowed to wear normal clothes on Fridays. Most kids have the option of living in dorms at school. I do, but go home Friday nights and leave Sunday nights. I'm glad school is almost over, this my last year. Only 5 months left. When all of this over, I plan to go find my father and live with him. It's sad that I'd leave my mother alone with that man but she's not who she used to be. That person isn't my mother.

One other thing to add to the list of my human qualities? Crushes.

You see, there's this guy named Jacob Perez. He's like one of the top dogs of the school, highest on the social pyramid. And I'm at the bottom, obviously. He come from a family with a reputation, I'm not all that sure what though. I didn't want to dig myslef into a deeper hole by being nosey but I'm really curious.

I WANT SOMEBODY TO SET ME FREE