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Story of My Life by Jalysia Middleton

January 14th 2006, a little beautiful little girl was born. Her 2 parents, Hector Willlams and Marquita Middleton were so happy that they had their first baby girl so they named her Jalysia Monea Middleton. On Marquita’s side she already had her first child. And a son named Jaleel. And on Hector’s side he already had two sons named Micah and Donte. Hector's kids didn't get to meet this little girl. But Jaleel did meet his little sister. But Hector did come over to spend time with his little girl.

Even though they didn't live with each other and they still did father and daughters things. 2 years later Jalysia has a little sister named Jaziah Mercedez Middleton-Willams, Jalysia was so excited to be an older sister and. The two were 2 days and 2 years apart. By the time Jalysia and Jaziah turned 5 and 3 they started becoming each other's best friends, always doing a lot of things with each other. Always ate with each other, took baths with each other, and slept with each other.

But the thing is Jalysia had to start school and Jaziah wasn't with Jalysia going to school she always felt like Jalysia needed to be Jaziah always. Jalysia was always sticking up for Jaziah because she never liked when people bullied her sister. The girls would always argue but then make up. After 3 years Jalysia is in 2nd or 3rd grade, she starts having problems expressing herself, had this bestfriend named Khyanna, they have been friends since kindergarten , the girls would always eat with each other, play tag. Even walk home from school, or go out to eat with Khyanna’s dad. The girls were in the same class for 3 years. They even had their own handshake.

A few weeks later, Khyanna stops talking to Jalysia and hangs out with another girl named Melanie and Jalysia gets jealous and tries to hang out with someone else. But sadly Jalysia can't do that, she always cried and thought she wasn't perfect, so she really didn't talk to people and started taking her anger out on little things. But Khyanna still wanted to be friends with Jalysia because that was her best friend. So the girls kept talking and being friends. One day Khyanna made a mistake that can never be forgiving.

When the state test came around Jalysia would always study with her grandmother and always passed that test. Jalysia’s grandmother was like her best friend and second mother. Jalysia’s grandma was always nice to her. Jalysia’s grandmother aka Jacqueline was always cooking for her events at her school. Everyone loved Her grandmother. She was the best cook ever.

On December 7th Jacqueline just came back from the hospital. And ate some food, but sadly Jalysia and Jaziah went out with a family friend. By the time they got back they saw her sleeping so they were quiet. A few hours later the girls played in the hallway and Jalysia spotted her phone ringing and ran to pick it up so she did and told the person that she was sleeping, but after she hung up she looked at her to see if she wasn’t breathing. But wasn’t, so she ran to her grandpa to see if he knew what was going on. Her grandpa rushed to the living room and tried to wake her up, but didn’t wake up so Jalysia ran and got a washcloth. And nothing worked . So her grandfather told them to go get their mother but her and grandma weren’t talking. So a few hours they hear ambulance and Jaziah & Jalysia start breaking down in tears and the family friend. Magda accidentally spills her drink on girls and they start to cry even worse, few more minutes later they take they kids out of the house, the girls were basically scared didn’t know what to do. At 12 am Marquita comes back to tell the girls that Grandma didn’t make it. It broke the girls hearts when they heard that they have cried for days, 6 days later is the funeral. They saw their grandma for the last time before they put her in the ground. They wanted them to smile so they did.

A year later Jalysia is in the 5th grade she started to get excited and made more friends, Jalysia started sharing her happiness and kindness and her anger. Jalysia would fool around and also help teachers when they needed help. A few months it’s June and Jalysia and Jaleel and going prom shopping, they were looking for outfits for prom, Jalysia and Jaleel splitted up, Jaleel went with Marquita, and Jalysia went with her aunt. It was difficult to pick out a dress for Jalysia because she didn’t really like any dresses so her aunt forced her to pick for her a white dress since she didn’t wanna pick out her and it was difficult. Jalysia didn’t really like prom shopping; it felt weird for her.

Just 7 days later Jalysia woke up a little bit late, also didn’t know she was going to be a little late, so Jalysia jumped into the shower, and rushed out to put on her dress, even though no one was home she still rushed. Ran down the stairs without her shoes on. Even though her mom didn’t have her car she used her grandfather's car which matched her dress. An hour later Jalysia arrives and people commenting how she looks. Jalysia was so happy at this point. After Jalysia starts taking pictures and her friend comes along taking pictures. After they go into the school, they find themselves at the gym but couldn’t go that way because it wasn’t finished so they had to go back down to the second floor. People started telling her that she looks pretty. They get to their classes because they weren’t in the same class, but then they started to merge into one class so after they wait for an hour to go to the gym, the parents are already there waiting. Jalysia’s Mother started to record. Jalysia moves to get away from her mom to avoid taking pictures, Jalysia starts moving around and starts to get something to eat, then her mom finds her, and makes her take pictures.

After the parents were leaving the kids felt free, a few minutes Jalysia’s feet started to hurt so she took off her heels and sat on the stage and took more pictures with the teacher. A few hours ago it’s 2:30 and it’s time to go home. Jalysia walked to the car in pain because her feet were hurting. But the day was fun for the day.

June 22nd is Jalysia graduation day, her uncle wasn't with her, but her aunt and her mother. Jalysia wasn’t in for the practice because she was sick. She didn’t know, after her mom recorded she messed up a little bit because she didn’t know where to go, when the kids started singing. After the principal said her speech, Jalysia started crying because she didn’t want to leave. After they announced all the names the kids started throwing their hats. 6 days later the kids are getting their yearbooks signed Jalysia got her signed but a lot of signatures but she wanted her crush to sign it but he took her book and she had to wait for him to come out the building for it. It was the last goodbye and Jalysia knew she wasn’t going to school with those people for middle school. Bye bye, Elementary school. September 9th is when The kids started school, Jaleel 9th grade, Jalysia in 6th grade, and Jaziah 4rd grade. The kids were really hype except Jalysia, she was really nervous. She didn’t know if she was going to make any friends. Marquita dropped off Jaziah, and then Jalysia. She walked into the building really scared and didn't know what to do. She tried to text Jaziah but her phone wasn’t working. They told the kids to sign in and Jalysia did. She went to the gym. All the kids sat down and the teacher was giving out schedules to know where they were going. Jalysia still didn’t talk to people. She was often scared of people . In ELA class the first person she talked to was Juliana Bradley.They sat next to each other at lunch and 3 more people joined them, Josephine, Jha-Ni, and Ronnisha. The girls were having much fun, then the group got bigger and bigger, then they started calling themselves “TYWLS Sisters”. A year later the girls are in the 7th grade, Jha-Ni, Essence, Juliana, Clairsmar , Jalysia, and mostly Josephine would go out to eat pizza, every time they did it they would go to the park, sit there eat, and play for a few.

In December, Jalysia’s Mother just found out she was pregnant, the kids were so happy they were getting a younger sibling, Jalysia sat there and broke down because she was happy for her mom. And she was already 22 weeks. After month after month her mother got big. Since Marquita was 2 weeks early her water broke on April 10th at 7:20 am , Jayceon Mckai Middleton was born , since it’s coronavirus going around, the kids could see her mother only on the phone, Jalysia and Jaziah stayed with a family friend, after he was born the girls went home, since Jalysia been had home she’s been missing school and stuff, next time she go to school she will be in 8th grade.

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