Prologue
I never thought someone could be so changed by one event. Never knew that people have so little belief in the mentally retarded. But I do know now it's all possible. I used to think I was different in a bad way, but now I question if "regular" people are better. I hate saying regular or normal, those words mean nothing to me. I was giving a chance to something so amazing for a kid like me to do but it was ruined all because of a choice someone made. It only took one choice. One choice turned my day from the happiest to the worst, it almost hurt my sister, but the worst was it almost changed me. I went from the girl that was picked on but was secretly very smart to the girl whose trying to prove what other people can't change me but the reality is people and this can change you. You are shaped out of your environment. Everything impacts you. But even thought everything is changing you, you will one day have to come to choose who you are one the inside and the out. You can shape you self or you can let others shape you just like my friend. Every one told her to do something that would hurt me and she came to that choice . . . and chose wrong. This choice led me to a similar one, but I know who I am, so I stayed Melody.