I didn’t know anything else that was happening around me except my parents, my school, my best friend, my job. My life revolved around them. My parents were teachers. They taught me everything. My mother especially – She told me loads and loads of theories, which she made me recite back to her. She was very complex at her words – It was as if she was not able to convey what she wanted to.

They pampered me like a baby, but made me strong enough to face my monsters. They made sure that I am never weak. I had never met my grandparents nor my relatives. I had no cousins who could be like best of friends – share every secret, Gossip about others, get drunk together until we pass out and have a hangover the next day, visit each other for Christmas and get loads of presents. Naah, I am not that lucky to be loved so dearly by family.

I had a best friend, scratch that, I had a sister from another mother. She was my everything – My friend, Sister, brother, confider. She was more like a personal diary where I record everything that’s happening in my life.

Everything was perfect in my small world.

UNTIL THAT ONE DAY.

My parents died under mysterious circumstances in a mysterious place. And it turns out that I am the one to find them.

I had no one. I got so lonely.

My parents had answers to all my questions. But now I have only questions, no one to answer.

My life changed in a way I couldn’t imagine - things took a one eighty-degree turn, when my grandfather and aunt decided to enter the picture. They put me in a situation, where I had to leave the city, I grew up. Reason – My safety.

I was admitted a different school. The school which was not for ordinary people. I was introduced to a different world.

The school had curfew.

The school had strict dress codes.

The things which I had no clue about.

The school, which I initially loathed, gradually brought out my hidden capability.

The fantasies which did not even dare to be in my dreams, were now part of my reality.

It was a very unlikely place for me to put up with. But it gave me a person. My soulmate. My Willian.

The place which I feared to enter was the place that gave me everything in life

I got my identity. I got friends. I got love. I got a family.

But as the saying goes, you get nothing easy in life. You need to strive to get things.

When life gets tough, the tough get tougher.

I fought. I survived. I found my answers.

I had to make choices. Life altering choices. The choice of life and death.

This is not just any other story. It is my life.

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Oh. Hey! By the way, I am Inaya. Inaya Brown