Today You Choose

Sierra has lived in the same small, downtown apartment for all 19 years of her life. She has lived with her mother sense her father left when she was 7 years old. She didn't know at the time but the man she barely knew left only because he found a younger woman that didn't have children. The moment she found out her father never loved her, is the day she threw herself not school work and nothing else, she was determined to prove to everyone especially her father that she was worth more than any of them. From the time she stepped into kindergarten, everyone around her knew she had the potential to succeed. Something was different about her though, she was always upset and antisocial. When she was only 9 she threw a desk at her teacher and was suspended for a month. This was only the first of many related incidences to come. Even with being suspended from 45 different schools she was still determined and was grate when it came report card time. Every semester she would send a copy to her fathers address in Vermont. Every time she sent it, she would get it returned within a week but it would have been opened. Sometimes she would receive the returned letter and hide in her room for hours, just crying and trying to figure out why no one wanted her. even her mother who had been there sense day one only kept her around for the disability checks every month. She knew that'll she was good for, was hurting people and wasting space, and eventually she snapped. While the rest of her  5th grade class was getting ready for their first school dance, Sierra was in jail...in jail for stabbing her mother in the shoulder, and trying to go for her face. This wasn't her first violent outburst and won't be her last, but she had never been in a real prison before.  In years to come she would be hospitalized and arrested for over 200 assaults, and even put into therapy. Yet never once did her grades drop even a single point. Fast forward to today and she get released from her cell for the last time, fall semester is almost over and she is about to graduate from high school with honors. Being the top of her class and excelling in literally everything she did, she had to prepare to give a speech and lead her class through the ceremony. "Here we are, after four years of exams, grades, and overall chaos. We've made it. As of this evening we all can say we have gone through one of the hardest stages in our life's…" she began as she addressed the entire school in her satin dress and black sneakers. Half way through her speech she glances down and sees her boyfriend, Jamison. He was wearing his usual formal attire witch consisted of a sleeved shirt and what he presumed to be a clean pair of black skinny jeans paired with his bright red shoes and nappy hair. Sierra may have been a bad kid but had nothing on her boyfriend, who she had been with for over 5 years. It seemed as if once her dad left, he showed up and in a way made everything just tolerable enough for her to keep pushing on. After everything was over she walked over to her boyfriend who had a strange look on his face, he wasn't the type to get nervous but tonight he seemed to be scared of something. As the two walked home through the alley behind her school, they began their regular conversation, the same one they always had while walking her home. "so, everything has been sent to your sperm donor, and theirs no more work to be done...So now what? You finally ganna take a chill pill and let us have some real fun?" he said in a deep and snarky tone. As she glanced at him, he could see the frustration building in her crystal blue eyes as she said "were not done yet, I haven't gone to collage or gotten a job or even done anything that has gotten his attention. But Is suppose a small break couldn't hurt that much". They both smiled as their hands folded together and they quietly finished their walk home. Their hands drift apart and they run in different directions, one up to the house while the other grabs the mail and fallows shortly after. As they both walked in the door they saw her mother. Like usual she was passed out on the couch with a strange half naked man and a bottle of liquor. They quietly walked passed them and ran to her room to see what mail they had and enjoy the evening sky from her large window. After about what felt like a year of opening and sorting threw her mothers garbage mail she found what she was looking for, a letter from "Tuez-vous University" wish was the most prestigious collage in France. They both stared at the envelope, sealed with a bright red stamp. As she turned it over and began to open it, they felt as if the hole world stopped. Finally as she gently broke the seal and opened the letter she screamed. Her boyfriend looked up and both their eyes lit up as she shrieked with joy "Ive été accepté! Ive finalement prouvé tous mal!". Her boyfriend gave her a huge hug and they both began to cheer and they finished reading the details, she was getting more excited but Jamison seemed to be getting anxious and she was unsure why. He glances up at her and stands up smiling and holding her hands, "I'm so proud of you babe but.. Maybe before you contact then I should do this. Will you?.." As he dropped on one knee she starts to panic, with every move he makes she can feel the walls closing in, Until finally he does it. He pulls out a dark box, and opens it to reveal a stunning diamond ring, coupled with an engraving of a black rose. HE looks deep into her eyes and says " My beautiful Serra, will you make me the luckiest dude every and be my wife?". She cant move, or speak, she's frozen and doesn't know what to do. IS she going to stay in the United States and get married to the love of her life, or will she leave and make something of herself.

Ending one-Collage
As her mind began to race and her heart full of rage she left out a loud roar and threw him back into the wall, "how could you do this to me! Everything was perfect and now your trying to hold me back! I though you loved me!". As Jamison trembled she picked up her bed and threw it out of the window, a loud thud when it hit the ground below. He tried to run but she got to her first, grabbing him by the color and slamming him into the wall until all she saw was red. She left him their, dead and still with the ring in his hand. She packed her bags and hoped on the next flight. She was never herd from again, except by her father who was still receiving letters from his daughter showing him how grate she had become.

Ending two-Marriage
"Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!" she proclaimed as she jumped onto him from the bed. He held her close to him as she kissed him deeply and they both giggled and cheered. She gladly accepted as he put the ring on her finger, it felt like all the worlds problems melted away. She eventually had a child and then went to school. Her father no longer ment anything to her because she was a mother and a wife and was going to live out the rest of her days making sure that their child was happy.