Generation One - Amethyst White - Chapter One

"You know I'm surprised she's aloud to stay in town." 

"I'm just ashamed to share a color with her."

This was daily life. Constant taunts and insults about my mixed-berry heritage. My father, Ivan White, was a teal berry who married my mother, Lilac White, a purple berry. Cross-color relationships were strictly prohibited in Appleloosa Pie, a small country town where everyone knew everyone. Honey Bea, a yellow berry, and her two lackeys, Sylvia Ocean and Holly Pea, were the worst. They made sure they were always waiting when I got out of work.

"Why not go join your parents Amethyst?" Honey crowed, making a slitting gesture at her throat. I said nothing, trying not to show that her comment hurt.

My parents had died a month after my eighteenth birthday in a car accident. The police called it an accident but I knew it wasn't. I missed them a lot, they were the only ones who really cared about me.

Tired of their incessant taunts I made a run for my house. My flats slapping the pavement quietly, I arrived at my small teal house. I threw the door open and slipped inside, sliding down the wall to catch my breath.

I leaned my head against the window, running a hand through my hair. I always let them get to me, I'd never been strong about asserting my self-confidence, like I had any. Once I had calmed down I pulled myself off the floor and walked into the ever familiar family room.

Averting my eyes from an old picture of my parents I turned to face the TV.

A montage of pictures showing my father and I through my childhood warmed my heart. I missed my dad most, he always understood me despite living a completely different life when he was my age.

Just thinking about him brought a small smile to my face. My life as a child had ended.

My life as a young woman had just begun.