CHAPTER #1

SCHOOL.

After my mum and dad's divorcement, my mum went into depression. We had no choice but to send mum into Rehab and us to the orphanage since dad didn't want anything to do with us. I went to summer beach school where our back-yard was the beach. My two little brothers': Josh and Alex. We were separated, they are so cute and that's what drove them to be adopted so early. Me, well... I'm a teenager, teenager's don't get adopted so easily. Since were the " hardest" to look after.

First day of school, So I rock up to school in my school uniform and hair down. I walk in the door to chemistry, "HEY, Jazz!" oh great, it's Shauna. She's my friend and I don't mean to sound well... mean but she's a weirdo. Complete freak, even though i don't care what people think nobody can deal with this chick. "Hey Shauna, how you doing?" "Amazing, fantastic, great!" I roll my eyes. "Why do you do that, and I LOVE you hair! How do you get it so soft?" "I don't, it just comes naturally." "Omg, you are so lucky."Ok so you know how you walk past people that are the most "popular" people and then they give you that dirty look? Well yeah I'm in that position right now. Omg here we go walking past the cute guys, look cool. So I walk past and just as I think I'm safe one of the boys lifts up his feet and I trip over. "Are you serious?" I ask. I look up and there's Tyler coming to my rescue. That's right the cutest boy in school comes and helps me up, "dude that's not cool, are you alright?" "ah yeah, thanks" omg I think I'm blushing, wow I just held Tyler's hand. Shauna looks at me in disbelief. We walk away to our table, "did you seriously just talk to Tyler and did you seriously hold Tyler's hand and..." "Shauna, shut up. Ok yes I know and it was wonderful! Trust me." Squealing in a girly voice, we both jump up and down until the teacher walks in. Oh great Mr. Sill, the most boring person that has ever taught me, known me, and seen me and... Well you know what I mean by now.

Ok so chemistry is finished and I'm officially out of my death sentence. "hey jazz, must of been pretty nice having the cutest guy in school come to your rescue like that, pity it won't happen again. And I'll make sure of it." There it is just as I go to sit down at lunch with the underdogs of the school, makkayla comments as she always has to me, the " I'm better than you and I'm the top of the school" kind of talk. I ignore her, what's the point? I mean my whole life I've been trampled and ordered around by makkayla and now I just don't care. " so how's everyone doing?" lizzie asks. Everyone around the table in order responds then comes my turn, " great I guess, chemistry was so boring, we had Mr Sill." this time round when I have all my friends like jess, lizzie, hard to admit but Shauna and Susan, shara, lacy, Alisha and don't forget the boys, Dylan, jack, jeff, max. I can really, truly be myself.

"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGG" "YES!" screams jess. Home time. Jess looks forward to going home and we can't blame her. Her mum and dad are like one of the richest out there and that's probably the only reason why we stay friends with her. I know its sounds awfully mean but we get paid to do it by her parents and I would've done it for free because she's so awesome but I needed the money and by me I mean my family. $4000 a fortnight and we've been friends for about 6 months now so roughly I've been given $360,000 from their parents and there's a lot more where that came from. Where the only people who know about it because if anyone else found out they would tell jess themselves. So we made a treaty that anyone who did tell, well we would beat the crap out of them until they told jess they lied. Because we need that money. "Omg I can't believe its home time already!" I say excited."I know right, I and my family are going on a holiday to London and I am so excited!" "Ok, ok no need to rub it in our faces Susan" I say back. "oh please, just cause you aren't going doesn't mean you have to put me down for it." "Hey don't even go there, at least we don't spend all our money on stupid vacations which might I add are during a school year, why can't you just go on an actual school holiday?" "Why do you have to dramatise it?" Susan asks. "I'm not dramatising it, I'm just saying. Because I find it stupid." "Well you don't need to put in your commentary." I roll my eyes and walk away. "What's her problem?" Susan asks Lizzie. "Don't you know? She has to go back to the orphanage while you go on a fantastic, amazing, and spontaneous trip to London" says Shauna in her weird, freaky attitude. I hear their conversation in the distance while I walk all the way home or that's what I call it anyway.

"Hey Sarina!" I shout as I walk in the door, "Hey guess what!?" "What?" I ask suspicious. "We got you an adoption meeting thing!" she yells, "No freaking way!" I shout. We jump up and down until the bell rings, "That's them! Go get changed." And I rush off to get dressed in the nicest outfit I can. "Jasmine! You have visitors!" Sarina says as if we didn't just have the conversation we did. "Coming Sarina." I yell. I walk down the stairs In the most calm way I can but I end up jumping the last two steps. "Hello, my name's Jasmine, but my friends call me Jazz." I shake both their hands. "Well please, come this way." Sarina walks the parents through the house and then into my bedroom. I show them all my trophies and I talk to them for a bit, "Well I think that we've seen enough." Says Joe and Mathew (Parents.) "If it's alright with you Sarina, could we please have a talk?" I smile as they walk out. A few minutes later Sarina walks in with a frown on her face and I know what it means, "Are you serious? I thought it went so well!" I start crying and Sarina sits there hugging me and telling me it's alright. I'm already 15 and I don't have a family except Sarina but that doesn't count. I'm happy with Sarina. I truly am. But I want a family; that type of family's where you have a brother and sister. My actually by blood brothers stopped coming to see me and I cry every night because of it.