The Good from the Bad

Chapter 1-The Beginning

Hello! I’m Abril Reyn. Your average normal girl with glasses, acne, round face, brown eyes and frizzy wavy brown hair. I had the best family a girl could ask for: caring mother and father and a precious 7 year old little sister. I thought I couldn’t be anymore normal in my life except on my physical appearance. You see, I was a little big, but my mom said they’re were curves though. My family always told me I’m special even if it couldn’t be further from the truth. I kept believing I was normal until my thritheenth birthday were my life changed and not for the better…

September third, Abril’s 13th birthday party-6:00pm

“MOM!!!!!!!!!! Is the chocolate cake ready yet?”, I yelled from my room as I was getting ready for my birthday cake, while imagining eating such delicacy. Today I was turning thirteen years old and I couldn’t be happier. My whole family was here for my day and I knew we were going to have so much fun today. Since Mom didn’t answer I decided to look around for her in the house since, both my father's and my birthday are close we have our party the same day only his is after mine ,so we need the cake to officially end my party and begin dad’s party. I finally found her in the kitchen with John a friend of my dad. “Hey Mom” I said. 

 “Hello sweetie! Sorry for the delay, I was just adding some final touches to your cake.”, Mom said. 

“It looks delicious! Thank you so much!”, I said. Noticing that Mom looked tired I asked, “Are you ok Mom, you look tired and..” before I could say something else John cut me off while preparing the drinks for my dad’s party by saying, “Cut the woman some slack Abril, both your father’s and your party are today, and she has a lot of stuff to do without help.” He had a point, so I said, “I’ll be leaving now, can’t wait for the cake though it looks delicious!”

“Can’t wait either, Princess”, John said looking at me in the eye. He had a maniac look, and a smile covered his face. Not wanting to be rude I said, “Thank you” and got out of there. 

After I left, I went over to my uncle Charlie and we started cracking jokes, he was the most chill person in the world. Then, I spent time with my grandma which was playing with Richelle, my little sister. Seeing all of them smile made my day. Out of the corner of my eye I saw John eyeing everyone from time to time. After that encounter in the kitchen, I kept an eye on him from time to time too. I tend to overthink, so I didn’t tell my parents or make anything of it. I noticed he stared at me a little too long. Hopefully he didn’t catch me looking and I will have enough time to tell my parents about him after the party. If I was overthinking, then no biggie, but if I’m not then we’ll do something about it.

Time went by really fast and it was time to make a toast for my both me and my dad. After all of us said a few words we said “CHEERS” and started to drink. Suddenly, I felt weird and I could tell the rest of the family were feeling weird too. Then I noticed that John wasn’t drinking and the moment where he prepared the drinks flashed in my mind. It all made sense now, John spiked our drinks!!! I was hoping I was wrong with all of my soul, but the faint sound of the bodies of my father, mother, little sister, half-sister, uncle, grandma, other uncle, aunt, and two little cousins collapsing one by one on the floor proved me wrong. Everyone was on the floor but John I tried making my way to him ,but I couldn’t move. Like if he knew that I wanted to make my way to him John suddenly was in front of me , stared right into my eyes with a jubilant and said, 

“I told you I couldn’t wait Princess”. After that I felt myself hit the floor and my vision blackened…