Rebecca Ashby

[Crystal]

Rebecca Ashby

Rebecca is a hard worker and dedicated, a trait she received from her father, Rhett Ashby. She wants to do well in school and wants to make her parents proud. She is quiet and shy, preferring to stay home on a Friday night instead of hanging out the kids from school. She has a few friends from her AP and Honors classes in high school, but no one that she really hangs out with outside of school unless it's for a project. She wishes she had more friends, but can't figure out how to be more outgoing. She can be considered a teacher's pet, always willing to stay after school and help them and always turning in assignments early. She enjoys her studies and hopes to become a nurse one day.

Hobbies: playing the piano, like her mom and girl scouts

[Crystal]

((Molotoyatti saga))

I am very scared. Last night, two bad men came to our house and they had guns. Mom was really scared and she was talking to Daddy on the phone. They grabbed me and Edmund and I thought we were going to die. And all I could think about is how the cookies from girl scouts haven't come in yet, and all of those people paid their money and wouldn't get them and I really hoped they wouldn't think I was a bad girl scout for doing that. But I was really scared. Mommy said it was okay to cry and okay to be scared.

Daddy came though and he made the men leave. I wish he would stay with us all day because I felt much safer when he got here.

Today we are going to Grandpa's house to visit. I like visiting Grandpa because he is a lot of fun. I didn't sleep very well last night though because I kept having nightmares. I don't want to tell Mom and Dad though because I think Mommy is still upset about it and I don't want Daddy to be sad. I really hope he sticks around though to make sure the men don't come back.

[Crystal]

((2G - high school junior year))

I have never been asked to homecoming or prom before. Honestly, I never even thought about going. Okay, well I've thought about going, but I didn't have anyone to go with. I don't want to tag along with Cassidy and her friends because I'm never sure if she even wants me to do that. They're not my friends, after all.

I had forgotten something in my locker yesterday after school and by the time I went to meet Cassidy at her car, she had left. She's the only one with a car, so I didn't know what to do. I was going to go back inside and call Dad because I was pretty sure I had already missed the bus home, but I saw Brendan Molony and I asked for a ride. He was nice enough to give me a ride home. Brendan and I aren't best friends or anything, but we've known each other practically since birth. We're not really in the same groups though--he's usually in trouble or probably skipping classes. I was kind of surprised he was even at school. But he drove me home and on the way home, he asked me to homecoming. Brendan Molony. I had told him that I wasn't going to go and he said he would take me so that I would have someone to go with and I couldn't have an excuse not to go. I didn't know what to say! Part of me was screaming no because it's Brendan and there's no telling what he does on homecoming and how he makes it more fun. But...then part of me was just really happy to be asked. I've never been to homecoming and I see Cassidy getting dressed up for it and all of the other girls. I want to get dressed up and go too. I want to go with someone and have a good time. I'm already ahead on my reading for classes and homework, so it's not as if I'll be behind because I took one night to go to a dance. But, of course, Mom and Dad weren't hearing any of it. They don't like Brendan, I know. I don't blame them, really. But he invited -me- to homecoming. Me! I guess I'll figure out something or else I'll tell him I can't go.

Edmund had a girl over to study with today. He has friends over, Cassidy has friends...I feel like I'm the only one in this family without friends to hang out with outside of school. It makes me sad. I know people in my classes and I talk to them, but we don't hang out after school. Well, some of them do. But maybe if I go to homecoming, it will help. I know that's silly. I can't wait until college. I want to go to a new school and just start all over. Be outgoing and extroverted and make lots of friends. I hope that's even possible.