I Became The School Queen

02/12/23 • 13 min

Hey! My name is Kiara and I’m from Ohio. My childhood was right out of a Psychology textbook. My parents disappeared one night, leaving my brother and me begging for scraps at restaurants, until we were thrown into an orphanage.

But it was at our prestigious boarding school where the greatest success of my life happened. I heard a scream one morning and rushed into the hallway. Standing there, absolutely furious and with mascara running down her face despite it being 7AM, was my arch nemesis.

“YOU!” Her green finger pointed right at me, and I wasn’t gonna hide my blame. I was proud of my latest invention. You’re curious to know what I did, right? Well, keep watching and I’ll tell you all about it!

My brother and I lived in an orphanage for a few years. It was awful! We were older than most kids there so the workers ignored us. Sometimes we had to steal baby food from the kitchen, or we wouldn’t eat all day! But out of the blue, a man in a suit showed up. He talked to the workers and they put us in his car, no questions asked. The whole car ride I was panicking in the back seat, but that went away when we reached our destination.

“Woah, what’s that?”

“Your new home” Said the man. We were in a small town, and on top of a hill was a HUGE, stunning building. It looked like a school, but fancier. And it became our new home. My favorite part of the school was the lab. I spent hours in there, making all kinds of things blow up! My room was full of gadgets I’d invented, because with my after-school job, I didn’t have much money to buy gadgets.

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“Woah, what’s that?”

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My Smile Controls Boys

What's up, I’m Mandy from New York.

Growing up was very difficult for me. At the age of just 4 our family moved into a small village and I had to work on our family farm milking cows.

One day I was milking the cows in the barn when the wind slammed the door shut, and one of the cows got startled. It kicked out its back hooves and smashed me on the mouth. I let out a loud scream and my parents came bursting into the barn. When they checked my mouth, they noticed most of my teeth were missing.

Dad: Mandy! Let me check your mouth.

Mom: we need to get her to the hospital! Immediately.

Doctor: Let me take a look, looks like she will be fine. Her teeth will grow back over time.

But years went by and my teeth never came back. We realized that something was very wrong with me.

“We’ve run some tests and your daughter has a rare condition that limits her production of teeth. I’m afraid she will never grow new teeth unless you can afford surgery, although I must admit it is very pricey.”

My parents were poor so there was no way we could afford it. I would have to suffer a terrible smile for the rest of my life.

I would get teased about it all the time at school. I remember in 5th grade I had just moved to a new school. When I entered the classroom, the teacher asked me to introduce myself.

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Mom Is Too Childish

What’s up everyone, I’m Stacy and I grew up in New Jersey with my mom and older sister.

My sister Kelly and I had the tightest bond. Even though Kelly’s 10 years older than me, we get along really well and do everything together. We cook, watch tv shows, kick around the ball in the garden - everything.

“Hey sis, where are you?”

“In a minute! I’ll be right out.”

That was Kelly, we told each other everything.. When Kelly had her first kiss, I was the first one she told. We were inseparable.

I loved my mom so much too, but.. Well.. she was kinda strange. She acted really childish all the time. She only wore Barbie clothes, and she always had her hair in pigtails and talked in a baby voice. Whenever people saw my mom and sister together in public, they always thought they were sisters instead of mom and daughter. Or even worse, they thought Kelly was the mom!

Kelly said “Hey listen, the reason why – why mom acted this way was because right after you were born our mom went to this rodeo show. As the riders struggled to hold onto the buckling horse, one of the horses' shoes came loose and came flying towards my mom.. It hit her right in the head and she blacked out. One of the riders screamed “John you really did it now! We’re going to get sued for this.” When she came to, she started acting like a 5 year old and was never the same”.

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