My Life's Story

First Year

Ok, before I start I need you to know that every story that I'm about to tell you is 100% true. I know that that'll seem hard to believe the further in you get to my story but it's the truth. Truth. It's something that I've always had a little trouble with. But this is something I have to do. I have to tell my story with no embellishments, and no lies.

My story starts with a young man and woman, who just wanted a chance at happiness. They had fallen in love, and knowing their parents wouldn't approve they left. They married and a child. (Hint it was me!) The man worked for the U.S. military in the air force. For privacy's sake, I will be changing everyone's names. Let's call this man, Daniel. He had married a woman we're going to call Elizabeth. Now Daniel and Elizabeth's child was a very unique person. And I'm not just saying that because it's me. This child, we'll call her... Sabella, yes I like that. Sabella was unique in her tendency to attract danger to her like a beacon.

When Elizabeth was pregnant with her she managed to roll around inside her mothers stomach and get stuck. The doctors had to induce Elizabeth in order to save the child. When she was born her foot was bent completely backwards touching the top of her leg with her toenails. Her mother, understandably, freaked out but luckily baby's muscles are so malleable that they were able to persuade her foot back to its proper shape. (I'm still really flexible in that foot!) From that moment on her mother knew her daughter was going to be a piece of work.

When the doctors took her daughter away to clean they tried to give her a pacifier which she spit clear across the room. She started screaming and sobbing. Elizabeth told the doctors to stop trying to give Sabella the pacifier because she clearly wasn't having it. Her parents never tried to give her a pacifier again. From birth it was clear Sabella was going to be a strong willed little girl.

Most people think that babies aren't old enough to really develop personalities. Clearly they had never met Sabella. For a baby she was already incredibly strong willed, and she knew who she was. She never really changed other than getting older and a little smarter. She was mischievous and manipulative. Her brother can attest to that.

Sylar (Cool name right!) was her older half brother by one year, nine months, and ten days. (I counted.) Elizabeth had been casually dating Sylar's father Chris for a couple months when she got pregnant. They never married, and she kept her son. That is until he was two and Sylar's father sued for custody. He won because he still lived with his parents, so there were three adults in the house as opposed to one and a military man.

Sabella now only gets to see her brother for one month out of the year during the summer. (Now less than that because we're both teens and he's busy during the summers.) They had both been born in Texas, but when Sabella was six months old, her family moved to New Jersey because of Daniels job. They stayed on the military base until she was three. During her first year of life Sabella's father was gone a lot. Elizabeth was worried that Sabella wouldn't remember her father, but she didn't have to be. (I've always felt that baby's imprint on people who care for them, and couldn't forget those people if they tried.)

Sabella was a feisty baby, almost always screaming and crying. When she wanted something the whole neighborhood knew it. Her mother worried that someone would call the cops, she screamed so loud. Eventually she would grow out of it but those first few years were rough on everybody. (My mom now says she prefered having a bad baby to a bad teen.)