author - "Amanda Castillo"
Time passes slowly for me, here in this classroom. I look around and see the smiling and laughing faces of my classmates and I feel my insides warm a little, though I am excluded from them. They never turn to me to ask a question, or to tell a joke or even to just send their exultant smiles in my direction; to them, I don’t exist anymore....
April Fernandez is not your typical freshman. She is the daughter of an owner of a multi-million dollar company and is pressured constantly to be perfect;her mother wants her to to keep up her appearences and daddy needs a successor to his precious company. Combined with the fact that she has a rebel of a twin brother who is rarely ever home, the absence of her parents leaves her feeling lonely and neglected. It isn't until a rainy day when she forgets her umbrella that things change for her. A
Time passes slowly for me, here in this classroom. I look around and see the smiling and laughing faces of my classmates and I feel my insides warm a little, though I am excluded from them. They never turn to me to ask a question, or to tell a joke or even to just send their exultant smiles in my direction; to them, I don’t exist anymore....
April Fernandez is not your typical freshman. She is the daughter of an owner of a multi-million dollar company and is pressured constantly to be perfect;her mother wants her to to keep up her appearences and daddy needs a successor to his precious company. Combined with the fact that she has a rebel of a twin brother who is rarely ever home, the absence of her parents leaves her feeling lonely and neglected. It isn't until a rainy day when she forgets her umbrella that things change for her. A