Cassandra POV

Preface

I never thought that I would be happy again, after everything that happened in the past. It was hard to leave my friends and my family, but it was a choice I had to make. It was hard moving on from home and leaving everything behind. As I looked around the room, at my new family, there were faces that I recognized from my past. I finally felt that I belonged, that I was meant to be a part of something. Their topaz coloured eyes stared back with smiles like they agreed. This was my life now…

Chapter 1 – My old life

I never thought about my future, I never thought of what I was going to do as a job, where I would go or who I would be. At the moment I go to high school, I do pretty well in most subjects, get good grades what I good student should get. I have many friends that I couldn't live without and if you asked them they would say the same. I have many family members but most overseas but we still communicate. I have a good life for the moment I'm only young so what else would you want.

It was July the 26th; it was my birthday everyone was there from my best friends to my family celebrating my birthday. I received many presents. I loved birthdays not because of the presents but because I got to see my favourite people all together in one place.

From then on, time moved quickly, suddenly it was the end of the previous year and now it was the beginning of the new school year. School was normal, get to school, do work, get homework, then get on the bus and go home.

The time continued to pass quickly, another year past, this year was as normal as the previous year. I got good grades, good comments from my teachers and couple of opportunities for my future. That if I did well in year twelve, I would have a great opportunity to go to university. I was looking forward to it.

Then all of a sudden I was in year twelve I couldn't believe it. It felt just like yesterday that I walked passed the huge silver gates of my new high school and dropping down from being the big fish to the small fish of the sea.

But here I was seventeen at my final year of high school, back at the big fish of the sea position. This year it was different to the previous years. This final year of high school will change my life forever. There was a good chance that I was going to university. I was going to have a good education then job and after hopefully wonderful life. It was all good for now.