• I walked down the hall, hoping not to be noticed by him. I hide my face behind my books, in my arms. He looked at me. I blushed. He knows I like him, but I don't know if he likes me.
    I don't get why I, Kanya, had to be so ugly! My friends tell me I am beautiful, but I know that is just a lie. To make sure they don't hurt my feelings.
    I really don't have my friends. Only Ku and Ka. They are twins. They have a little sister that is 10 months younger than they are, but she is identical to them.
    I am an only child. I want a sister, or a brother. That would be nice. The baby would be a lot younger than I am, and look a lot different.
    My mother was murdered now I live with my foster parents. They were killed on accident. The man was looking for a different woman, his girlfriend. To kill her, she told him she was 5 months pregnant. He got furious and yes. That was it. My mother was pregnant with my little baby brother. That man didn't even know whom he was killing. That woman told him at the wrong time. He was drunk. He saw my bloated mother and he just killed her. Then, my father left me alone, and, now I have no family. My mother and father's family, I have never met.
    I just want to see my mother again. I knew my father was going to leave my mom. Every time she walked by, I saw it in his eyes. Watching her like she was just being used. Well, that was what she was doing, being used. Maybe he was cheating her, maybe right now, as I speak, he is with ‘her’ or ‘him?’ I don’t know.
    I walked to class. In the classroom, I saw a man, a familiar man, looked, just like my mother.