Smile

Alexia's POV It all started off with that horrible night. The night that changed my life forever. The night that made me go blind and mute. The night that made me lose my parents.  We were heading back home after picking my mom up from the hospital. We had just found out she had beat breast cancer after 4 years.  "What should we do to celebrate?" dad asked. "We should go home and have a movie night," mom said. "Yessssss!!!!" I screamed in excitement. "Shhhh, Alexia. Your brothers are asleep" mom told me. "Okay mommy" A car came speeding towards us out of nowhere. All I could hear was the sound of sirens and people trying to talk to me. Then everything went black. I woke up on the floor of my room sweating and out of breath. Then my brother came running in. "What's wrong? Are you okay? I heard a big bang." he asked with his voice full of concern. I just shook my head up and down to show him I was fine. "You sure?" I just kept shaking my head. He helped me up from the cold hard ground onto my bed.  "Hmmmm. Okay. If you say so." After he said that he hugged me and gave me a kiss on the forehead then walked out of my room.  I tried going back to sleep since tomorrow was going to be a long busy day. We were moving back to California where we grew up after 7 years.  The Next Day I got out of bed and went into my bathroom. I stopped In front of the mirror and although I couldn't see myself I knew there was a girl with dark bags under her eyes, messy hair, and most of all a girl breaking on the inside with no one to save her. I couldn’t fall back asleep last night after my nightmare. The same nightmare that’s been haunting me since I was 10 years old.  I hopped into the shower to get ready for the long day ahead of me. After getting out of the shower I got dressed into a t-shirt and jeans. Then I braided my hair into two french braids. While I was putting on my slippers the smell of bacon and eggs with pancakes filled my nose. Once I put my slippers on I headed towards the kitchen to eat breakfast.  "Good morning Alexia," my aunt said.  I just smiled and found my way towards one of the chairs at the table. She brought me a plate filled with food and I just smiled at her as a way of saying thanks. Right after I dived right into the plate of delicious food. Once I finished the delicious food my aunt told me she was going to help me pack all my things once she was done doing the dishes.  You’d think I would be sad about moving but to be honest I’m not. I don’t have any friends at school and everyone bullies me. My older brother has always been there to save me from my bullies but whenever he saved me I’d always get a worse punishment from them. I’ve had to endure all this bullying since we moved with my aunt and uncle.  The only ideas about moving that I don’t like are having to move to a new place and having to get familiar with it without the help of my family and going to a new school where there is going to be new bullies and no friends.  Later That Day Everything was all packed up and in the moving truck. We all headed to sleep for the long drive from Seattle to LA that was waiting for us tomorrow morning. I stayed awake the whole night listening to music. Sooner or later it became morning without me knowing. I’ve been in my room listening to music until past noon. My brother Max came into my room when we were about to leave. He told me we would get dinner on the way to LA and to just change into some comfy clothes. I did as I was told right after he walked out of my room. I changed into joggers and a hoodie then went into my bathroom to brush my teeth and put my hair into a messy bun. On the way out of my room I grabbed my phone and headphones. As I got down stairs I was engulfed into a hug by my little brother Jason and my little cousin Olivia. Once they let go I was dragged to the car by both of them. They sat in the back seat with Logan while Max and I sat in the middle with Bella and my aunt sat in the front with my uncle driving.  18 Hours Later We finally arrived at our new house in LA after 18 hours of driving. Since I couldn’t really do anything to help, my aunt decided it’d be best that I’d go to the backyard on the porch swing. I was there for what felt like hours until my brother Max and cousin Bella decided to come join me.  “Hey Alex,” Bella said with excitement. “Hey Sis,” Max said, sounding as if something was bothering him. I just smiled at them as a way of saying hi. “Bells can you take Alex up to her new room to freshen up and get ready for dinner later with the neighbors.” Max asked Bella. “Suree!!!! Come on Alex let’s go!” She said as she got me up on my feet and dragged me inside the house up the stairs and into what she said was my new room. She walked me to the bathroom and showed me where everything was.  “Okay so you hop into the shower while I pick out an outfit for you.” Bella said with a lot of excitement. When I heard the door of the bathroom close I hopped into the shower and took about 15 minutes to shower. When I got out and had a towel wrapped around me Bella opened the door and pulled me into my bedroom and sat me down on my bed.  “Here you go. It’s a black lace bra with matching lace panties.” Bella told me. I followed the sound of her voice and looked at her confused since I know for sure these aren’t mine. I guess she knew why I was looking at her like that because after she told me , “Oh I know you don’t own anything with lace on it so I thought I might as well get you some as a gift.” I smiled at her even though I didn’t really know why I needed some of these if I had some every comfy plain ones. Then she handed me a black long sleeve shirt with a white and grey plaid skirt as she described it to me.  Once I was dressed she helped me to the white vanity desk in my room and started to do my hair with a curler and put a bit of makeup on me. Which I have never done either of them before in my life. Once I was done she walked off to somewhere in my room.  “Last but not least to finish off your outfit” Bella said with excitement once again as she handed me a box. I opened the box and inside was what felt like boots. “They are black high knee boots. I hope they fit you” Bella said as she sat on the floor. I smiled at her as tears started to form in my eyes.  She’s been there for me as well as everyone else in this family. She is the only girl I interact with other than my aunt and her younger sister. Ever since my brothers and I moved in with her parents and her siblings she always helped me. She spent her time helping me figure out where everything was in the house she grew up in and she also spent some of her time organizing my clothes by color and buying me new clothes for me as I grew up. Thanks to her, my life has been a bit easier to live in.  “Here let me help you put them on” Bella told me while taking the box from my hands and putting it on the ground. She took the boots out of the box and helped me put them on.  I used my hands to gesture to her as if asking if she was ready. “Oh me don’t worry about me I’ve been ready since when I went to go get you outside” she told me while getting up from the ground. I made an O with my mouth. She grabbed my hand and helped me out of my room down the stairs and into the living room. She helped me sit down on the couch while everyone else came down the stairs into the living room. My older brother Max was the last one to come out. When he got down stairs I felt a pair of eyes looking at me then.......