I started going to parties where I was first introduced to smoking cigarettes. I wasn’t the girl that wanted to help in class anymore not even pay attention in class for that matter. I made it through the last year of junior high only because they wanted me out.
Now, off to high school where I became the popular girl. I was always willing to party and dance all night. I loved all the attention and the friends I had. Well that didn’t last very long because I was kicked out of school at 16 because I threatened a girl for bullying a friend of mine. YES I was kicked out of school for defending someone else. REALLY??!!! I went from being loved by the teachers and hated by the students to being loved by the students and hated by the teachers. It was then that I even started to “hate” my mother because she wanted to discipline me and tell me that she didn’t like the type of friends I had. It was so bad that I left the house at 16 years old. What I did from 16- 18 I won’t even mention because what matters the most is what happened after that. That’s a whole other story in itself. Ha-ha.
At 18 I decided that my life was beyond making a turn for the worst and I needed to make a drastic change. What originally was just meant to be a vacation to visit family in Connecticut turned into a permanent change, that I do not regret. My mother had traveled with me and I just remember telling her to go back and get my things out of the apartment that I was living at the time because I was not going back. I told her that if I went back that my life would not get any better. I made her promise that she would move to Connecticut as well because I couldn’t make this change without her and my father by my side. They did keep their promise and 11 months later they were officially living in Connecticut.