Chapter 2

She had no clue what happened to her in school. Up until the third grade she was popular and everyone liked her. Then, for some reason all he classmates stopped talking to her, making fun of her, no one wanted to work with her, or help her, and they all avoided being near her. The worst time of the day for her was recess. Nobody wanted her to play any games, so she would just walk around and watch as everyone played for half an hour. It seemed as if her fall from grace in school also impacted her school work. After the second grade her grades dropped dramatically. She went from an honor student, like her sister, to the worst in the class. Because of this her home life got worse. Her parents were disappointed and constantly compared her to her sister. She even became their slave. She had to clean after her sister, cook for her mom some nights, and got blamed for every bad happening in the house by her father. She couldn't even visit her grandmother or godparents unless her family visited too.
She had a crush on this boy who rarely talked to her but, when he did it seemed as if he actually liked her back. But then, as if the evil god wasn't done tormenting her, he moved away in sixth grade without a word. She didn't even know what had happened until the seventh grade when someone finally told her that he moved away. She did have a few here and there friends, but they would only talk to her if they had no one better to talk to.
As time went on she became less and less like the cookie cut outs of her class. Her cousin's musical influence helped with that. He introduced her to everything that others tried to keep away from her. Bands like: Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Weird Al Yankovic, Blink 182, Queen. Then as she got older it escalated into other, harder, more adult bands. She started listening to people like: Slipknot, Metallica, Disturbed, H.I.M, A.F.I, System of a Down, CKY, Billy Idol, Kill Hannah. But, by doing this she became more and more like the Black Plague in school. Listening to this music also made her thinking about what was happening in her own home. Her rebellion started in the end of seventh grade into the beginning of eighth. Her parents were so mad they took her to a psychiatrist to see why she was doing this, but Kurea never talked. In fact to piss off the psychiatrist she answered him in sign language, which she was taught in class. That is until he brought in a translator, then she became silent. This continued three days a week for a month, after her parents didn't get a word out of her for a year they gave up and let her do whatever.
In high school it seemed that she changed. The horrible trauma from her middle school left her permanently scared. She no longer tried to make any friends. She thought that she was different for anyone to like her now. Her year didn't start off to well, she flunked the placement testing that she was put into a remedial class for the students who have trouble reading. She didn't have trouble reading she just didn't care about the placement and never read any of the excerpts on the tests. Then the bad luck continued, her I.D picture was horribly ugly, whose wasn't, but she didn't know that because she wasn't talking to anybody. People learned her name from only the attendance sheet, and she only spoke when she had to. She even sat alone at lunch for the first two weeks of school. After that a group of upper classmen came up to her as noticed that she looked lonely and if she wanted to sit with her. That never happened to her before, nobody but her grandmother and godparents talked to her first, so of course she agreed. They all started talking and suddenly they started talking about her sister, apparently they knew her. Kurea said that she was her sister. EVERYONE screamed and shouted "Oh my God! Why didn't she ever talk about you?" her simple and only answer to that was "Why would she, she doesn't exactly like me." Strangely that topic created a relationship that would continue until their graduation.
High school for her seemed to get better after that, she made more friends along the way. Nayre became popular and had more friends than she was ever used to. She even had her first boyfriend during Christmas but, they didn't last too long after that. Ironically her ex-boyfriend hooked her up with one of his friends who really liked Kurea. She wasn't allowed to date, so it was kind of confusing to him when she said she couldn't when he asked her out. After a few days of depression for the boy, Kurea finally explained that she wasn't allowed to date, that she said she couldn't, not that she didn't want to. Kurea finally felt accepted and it seems like the pissed off deity finally calmed down and lifted her "gift".
After that moment her freshman year was great. She was popular, her parents stopped trying to change her, and she is passing her classes. Life was great. Even by accident she followed her sister's footsteps and joined the school's play. She was in the stage crew. She built the sets, painted them, and ran them out during the play. She finally had her own group of friends and was liked by people her age. She had a boyfriend who, by the end of freshman year, had fallen head over heels for her. Except for her grades her life was great, but she didn't care about her grades. Her life was getting good for once and this time it felt like it was going to last.