"My first memory was me running. Running just to be running . Running out of fear. Running for surviv..."

"Weeks went by since the hospital, and Scarlett talked her way out of any fault from the incident. I..."

"My fathers older brother was a saint. A patron of children. He was the one to challenge my biologica..."

"Funeral processions were made for my uncle. My father had been served and found guilty of his crimes..."

"After my uncles funeral. I slumbered in a grey fog of my mind. The world dimmed and seized to make s..."

"I followed this strange large cat into the woods not knowing or feeling the danger it may have held...."

"When Scarlett arrived I immediately took to her. She was my age and I desperately needed a friend my..."

"Over the summer we rotated chores . At the end of the summer we went to the beach . The system had a..."

"I sat at the end of the stairs cold and wet. I watched the fleeing image disappear like out of thin..."

"The next few weeks was like a blur . The medication messed with my head as the dose was stronger . S..."

"My heart leaped out in fear, pain,and sympathy all at once as he confessed his deed to me. I knew he..."

"I looked confused at my hunter. He explained the politics of both our kind. Questions rose in my sma..."

"I remember my mother being so exhausted by her two full time jobs she maintained between my father q..."

"Melina became so upset how Scarlett had tricked her into receiving yet another punishment for someth..."

"I knew when to pick my battles and when not to. I was very aware of my situation of knowing I was ea..."

"Melina watched Scarlett as she waited for her to be away from the other girls as she wouldn't have h..."

"Third grade year was important to me as I was beginning to understand my world a little bit more. I..."

"There are many things that should have never happened in my life and many more things that would hap..."

"Half way through my four grade year I was told my mother gained custody of us girls once more. Jamie..."

"The first few weeks of school I kept to myself as I knew if I stayed low noone would recognize me at..."

"I looked around as my skin prickles and crawled as I could feel a hunter around me and this one wasn..."

"My mother wasn't ready to be a mother as she was more focused on her career and the life she had bef..."

"After I refused to go see my father in prison my mother went on the deep end and began to be really..."

"I sat in the woods as I carried my bookbag full of apples and oranges I collected for the boy I was..."

"My hunter would keep close to me as he saw I was often sad and as a distraction he would teach me th..."

"My sister mia was always the sister that would bask in recognition of her special day also known as..."

"After mia went away Paula didn't stay much longer as she ran away and the school was calling her mot..."

"Half way through my fifth grade year I was invited to take a trip to a trail to experience first han..."

"Melina sat on the bus on the way home as she had two nights of undisturbed sleep and she knew she ha..."

"Melina went to the woods as she waited for her hunter as it had been days since she came back from t..."

"Weeks went by as my mom would remind me of the money she lost getting removed from karate. My mother..."

"Melina became upset at her sister Paula's lack of loyalty for the preservation of her sister Mia. Th..."

"Melina's mother always made the worst assumptions of her as she was either degrading her or using he..."

"Melina remembered feeling the rush of the air around her as she could feel the wind flow through her..."

"The bus ride home was dreadful to Melina as she knew what she was returning home to as she ran out o..."

"Melina layed her head on the police window as her mother came home as she was thinking her terrible..."

"Melina went school shopping as she didn't have many clothes that fit her from her mom's. The one goo..."

"Larameeka and Melina had been roommates for a long time as she would have been roommates with her li..."

"Melina got up as she was on house crew this week as here the schedule didn't get divided by a two we..."

"Around basketball season the elementary school had their version of sports as Paula had just joined..."

"Melina felt angry and upset that Paula pretty must ousted her as a member of the female gender . Mel..."

"Melina felt angry and upset that Paula pretty must ousted her as a member of the female gender . Mel..."

"Melina knew what she did with her abilities was a step too close to being selfish,but she was treate..."

"Melina went to the woods by the leman home mid day as she still hadn't seen her hunter and she had b..."

"Melina came to reset the barrier now the water had envaperated from the rocks as she strategically p..."

"I watched the woods like it was calling to me but I knew what my hunter did was not for me but for h..."

"Melina came back to attend the same country school . She was two years older than the rest of her cl..."

"The thing about system kids it isn't like a prison sentence. A prison sentence tells you how much ti..."

"Melina knew that her time was nearing as they found new house parents and was taken back to the Bail..."

"I slowly began to gather allies in the younger generation as my hunter used a witch he called the wh..."

"Melina made herself at home with her coven as she was more close to Ashley and Kimberly as those two..."

"Melina felt like she was the teenage mom as she was making preparations to take care of her nephew a..."

"Melina had boys interested in her but it was mainly school yard necessities. They would meet at scho..."

"I knew the softball was a distraction of having to deal with me and they thought it would make me an..."