3She'd always been the girl people either hated or loved. Mostly hated, but that wasn't of real importance to her. She had her friends, two people she could count on and be counted on by. Shyness came naturally, as did intelligence and the talent for observation.
Light brown hair and pale green eyes, paired up with a total height of five feet and two inches, and a slim, near shapeless build. She didn't have much confidence in herself apart from knowing she knew the answers to approximately ninny-four percent of the questions the teachers could dish out on exams. Her grade average was equal to her weight.
Mackenzie Jade Wynter. Otherwise known as Ice to those who knew her well, Zie to those who would know her well eventually, and Wynter to those who didn't know or want to know her. Her name wasn't important to her, she didn't care what they called her as long as a percent higher than ninety appeared in the box below her grade level on her final report. And it always did.
She loved silence. Flourished in it. Noise and clutter were the two things in life she hated most. Being brought up in a home where her father never stopped working and her mother never bothered to work, silence in the large house was nearly as sure as the setting sun.
She didn't ask questions. For the most part, she'd learned at a young age that her inquiries were trivial and would be ignored because adults had work to do and papers to read and suppers to cook. She didn't complain, as complaints were looked down upon in a household where everything needed was provided and there for the taking. She didn't argue, knowing her side of the matters would simply fall upon ears deafened by narrow-minded thinking patterns. By the time she'd turned sixteen, she realised the many things she couldn't do greatly outweighed the things she could.
Mackenzie Jade Wynter. Otherwise known as me.
I regarded my life as sixteen years wasted. Soon to be seventeen. What I didn't know, was that something would change. Something would change drastically, leaving me empty and hungry for things I'd never wanted for in my life.