ayyeee another story from the same person, ugh, it's like i'm bored or something. anyways, here we goooooooo!

general explanation:

so my mum says that she read the first book when it was popular and tried reading to me and my brother, but he would fall asleep (cuz he was literally 2) and i would just fake sleep so i could read my own books when she left the room (cuz i'm a bad bitch).

then when i was around 10-11 years old, i got into percy jackson and i was on instagram and had a fan account (mega cringe). there would shitty edits of the deathly hallows sign, the immortal instruments (i have the first book but i've never read it shhh) and the percy jackson symbol.

this straight up enraged me.

no other series could compare to percy jackson, so out of anger, i bought the first harry potter book and the first shadow hunters (or whatever) book. don't ask me why, but i just did.

so i began to read the sorcerer's stone and got rlly into it. now, everybody else in the world, seemed to have a problem??? my heavily polish and roman catholic grandma actually gasped when i asked her for the sixth book and walked out of the room. my father (i don't like talking about him so let's just call james from here on out, okay?, okay), who was also heavily roman catholic, would tease me and say that i was being possessed by lucifer or that my mum (the only woman who's divorced him xoxo hunty) was forcing me to read it to get back at him.

it wasn't just family, school was even worse. in fifth grade, we had a reading log and the teacher would call out your name and you would state out loud the book and what page you were on. i was actually shaking when i said that i was reading a book on witchcraft and some kids giggled or sniggered at me. my "best friend" at the time would often try to steal my books from me and when i confronted her, she would try to justify herself by saying she was "helping me" because i was "losing touch with the lord".

you might be thinking, "wtf audrey, where do you live and why tf are people so rude to you????"

well i live in east texas, which is rookie mistake no. 1, and at the time, i was a vvvvveeeerrrrrryyyyy outgoing kid like you wouldn't understand. but after fifth grade and the fucking public humiliation i went through is what lead me to be the example of social anxiety for the whole school.

when i went to middle school, there were other kids like me that went to other elementary schools and ended up in the same middle school as me. so yeah....

also, what ironic is that some of the kids that would laugh at me in class for reading hp, have now read hp and are going through the same phase that i did so haha you bitches.

that's all

-audrey