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My moms name is Anya M. Forrest she was born on May 4th, 1985. It was the first chilly night of September the start of fall, they had just started their last year as middle schoolers and like most friday nights she was having a sleepover with her best friend Niylah at her house. Her parents went to her dad’s bosses house for a company get together, leaving the three teens at the house. Her older brother Nyko’s best friend Augustus came over and they were hanging out in the basement. Niylah and Anya had been up in her room watching Jesse Mccartney music videos. They were dancing and singing around the bedroom. Anya had gotten a new set of nail polish and they were giving each other manicures and pedicures. It was about 7 pm when Niylah decided to go down stairs and play a prank on her brother and Gus. Anya was always up for a prank so the girls came up with their plan and made snuck down to the basement. Niylah entered first acting as if she was just getting a game out of the closet while Anya was up at the top with cans of anchovies and sardines as soon as she saw her friend gave the sign she was to run in and dump the cans in to the bowl of their punch. three... two... one Niylah gave the signal and as she distracted the two boys anya dumped the cans and they turned to run, Niylah was halfway up the stairs when she heard her best friend snort in a fit of laughter and when she turned around Gus had her thrown over his shoulder tickling her. Gus has had a crush on the younger girl for the past year. He was happy to see her, even if she had just put anchovies and sardines in their punch. He sat anya on the couch next to where he had been sitting. They ended up talking for a little while till he offered her a soda. They talked for 2 hours when he leaned in to Anya lips leaving a sloppy wet kiss. Anya stood up to go back up stairs but Gus grabbed her arm yanking her back down she landed on his lap an the minute it took her to get back up his hand was moving her panties out the way and he was raping her and it was over. She got up slapped him, fixed her skirt and underwear and went back up to Niylah room. She knew she didn’t like what happened and wasn't really sure what exactly it was, and just wanted to forget.
It was December now 3 months since the party, Anya hadn't got her period since before the party but she had just got her first period in july and was still irregular so at first she didn't really think anything of it but she stated to put on weight and was feeling off. She took a pregnancy test from the dollar store and it came back positive. She didn't want to believe it but after 10 test all saying positive it was hard to deny it. She was scared for people to find out so she hid it under baggy sweatshirts as long as she could. The first few months it had worked but at 7 months along nothing could hide it anymore. when her parents got home from work she called a family meeting in the living room, her parents down on the couch before she joined them as soon as she walked in the room they knew exactly why it had been called. Her dad looked at the bump before speaking up, Anya Marie Forrest please tell me that this is a bad joke. She just shook her head, I'm sorry daddy, I'm really pregnant. He was speechless for a few moments before he was able to speak. How? she took a deep breath and told her parents about the night and what happened with Gus. Her parents were pissed when they found out she had been raped by a 17 year old. They called the cops and pressed charges against Aden and he was arrested for rape of a minor 14 or younger. Anya's parents wanted her to give the baby up for adoption that she was way too young to be a mom and they still wanted her to be a teen. She agreed to look into giving me up for adoption once I was born.
Anya went into preterm labor at 34 weeks and had me on her 15th birthday, May 4th 2000. My mom matched with a family at the adoption agency that originally said they were ok with an open adoption but when it got closer they changed their minds and wanted a closed adoption. She was on the fence whether or not it was still something she was ok with but once she held me she couldn’t go through giving me up for adoption to a stranger. So she had a heart to heart with her parents and as soon as my grandparents saw me they told my mom she could keep me and they would take temporary custody of me, as long as she helped,she finished high school and graduated college. She agreed and my mom started 9th grade the fall after I was born. They decided after she graduated from college then they would give her custody back of me. She named me Alexandria J. Forrest I weighed 5 pounds and was 26 inch tall, tan skin, brunette hair, and piercing green eyes. At the hospitals NICU I one the award for tallest preme. After 3 days I got released from the hospital and they took me home. My nursery was set up on the third floor across from my moms room. The walls were painted light gray and pastel purple. It had a fairy theme throughout the room with a light gray dresser that the top was a changing table but then when you get older they sell a vanity you can replace it with. My crib was called a grow with me, it was pastel purple, it started as a crib then you take off the front and put on the smaller piece then the crib frame turns into a full bed frame. Lastly was a rocking chair in the corner by my window.
While mom was at school my grandma would take me to the employee daycare at the hospital she works as chief of surgery. My grandparents went by mama and papa both agreeing that 31 and 33 were way too young to be being called grandma and grandpa. Papa was 16 when he became a single dad to Anya. His girl friend at the time dropped her off while she went to work and never came back. Papa was a sophomore in high school and Anya went to the daycare at his high school. It was hard for papa but he loved his little girl and just wanted to give her a good life. Papa was accepted to U.J.H engineering program. Him and Anya livid in family housing, and she went to a preschool near campus. Papa met mama his freshman year in his english class they sat next to each other and became close. They started dating towards the end of fall semester, and when mama got to meet Anya they instantly clicked. They dated for 6 years and 2 years after papa graduated and mama's last year of med school they got married papa was 24, mama 26 and Anya 8.
Mama's best friend Aurora Blake to kids a 4 year old son Bellamy and a 10 month old daughter Octavia. The first time me and Octavia met I was 2 weeks old and she was a little over 10 months old. O was My very first best friend and we were inseparable. Neither of us able to pronounce each others name when we were so little she called me Ale and I called her O. We both spent way more time in the hospital daycare than at our own houses. On friday's if mom didn't have any homework or finished fast then she would come pick me up at daycare. Mom would take me home feed me dinner and play till it was time to put me down. As me and O got older we only grew closer if we were never far apart from each other. Where one was you could guarantee the other wasn't to far away.
Soon after my 4th birthday and my moms 19th birthday she graduated high school and would be attending the 5 year law program at Everett University in Seattle. After everything that's happened she wanted to help girls like herself 5 years prior. She wanted to do better for the younger generation. At Everett University in you work at the Everett county DA office for 5 years after graduation then your tuition is waived. With her scholarships plus that she wouldn't go into debt. We as a family decided papa would take me once a month to Seattle to visit my mom and she would come to visit me. Then in 10 years when i'm finally done I can get custody of Alexandria.