Buried Alive By Love

Lisa McFarlane

As a teenager I was an awkward creature. I never quite fitted in with the main crowds of people at school. I also never quite knew what to do with myself other than to hang out with my friends or lock myself in my room and blare heavy metal.

My family is amazing; My mother is the pillar of my very existence and my father is hers. They encourage me to be different, finding the norm in which teenagers my age lived like boring and not at all colourful. My brothers are the most irritating of beasts but I really do love them. Even if Stephen has stolen my Slipknot album for the hundredth time and now officially lost it. And Kevin can not abide heavy metal and tends to make comments about my hair and makeup every time I see him but I have from good authority that he is proud that his sister is not, quote, A dumb blond. I have friends who I could always depend on for anything I needed. Overall, I had a pretty good life. ... (continues)