Hi, I’m Christina Kennard. Tina. I’m 14. I have blonde hair that reaches to the middle of my back. I have brown eyes and I have the normal height for my age. Today I’m meeting my mother’s ‘boyfriend’ and his kids. My father died 6 years ago and my mother has fallen in love again. I’m happy for her, I am. But it feels like she is betraying my father. My sister, Helena, is 16 and is adopted when she was 3 by my parents. She is from England and even she only lived there for 3 years, she has the English accent. She is openly gay and our family is okay with it. Now back to my mother’s boyfriend, Melvin. He is African-American and he has two daughters and a son. His youngest daughter is Elisabeth Porter, she is 15. His oldest daughter, Kathy, is 18. Elisabeth is half-black and Kathy is fully African-American. His son is 19 and his name is Pierre-Jean. He is also fully African-American. I hope they are nice and that we can get on. I want to do everything necessary to make my mom happy. After Daddy died I never really seen her smile. Even if Elisabeth and Kathy are the biggest bitches in the world, And Pierre-Jean is a jerk. I will try to get on with them. I can only hope Helena is willing to do the same. She is more like the… hard type. To me she is sweet and caring but to everyone who even gives her a little critic, she is almost evil. Her actual birthmother left her a HUGH deal of money. She is richer than our whole family together but she managed to stay ‘simple’.

My mother calls that it’s time to go to the restaurant where we will meet them. I’m just weating a white dress that reaches to my knees. My hair is in a ponytail and I have big silver earrings in my ears. When I walk down the stairs I see Helena coming out of her room. She is weating a red dress that is a little shorter than mine but it’s still decent and her long, dark, straight hair is hanging loose over her shoulders.