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Chapter one - Perfect Life.

I used to think I had it all, great parents, wonderful friends and everything I ever wanted. That all ended as soon as the truck turned the corner.

I was sitting in the car with Charlie and Renee, on our way to the library, the next thing I remember was waking up in a strange place with tubes and god knows what else poking out of me. I later found out that a truck carrying timber had lost control of its wheels and smacked straight into the side of the car killing my parents.

I spent the next three months in hospital having a number of operations to repair broken bones. Whist sitting in my hospital bed I remember thinking 'how could I, Bella, the accident prone, the one forever falling over, have been in a car accident and be the only survivor.

After getting out of the hospital, I was told by a social worker that I was to be fostered by a family that had two older girls who would be my new sisters. 'Great' that's all I wanted. I had just lost the best parents anyone could ever ask for and I was now being forced onto someone else.

Linda and Rob were my new foster parents, whist Emily and Kristy were my new big sisters.

After five years of living with my new family, I still didn't get along with them. My sisters treated me like dirt under their shoes, whist my parents pretended I didn't exist.

From the minute I walked through the front door, I had been doing anything I could to get out. I was always reminded by at least one member of my family that I would not be able to leave until I was 18 or going to university. Well to my surprise that day had finally arrived at last.