molly

molly • My family and I have always lived in rougher neighborhoods. It helps my sisters’ designing. My aunt, Jaylyn, owns a clothing line, and my sister designs for it. She says that rougher neighborhoods tend to bring her creativity into better focus; that she needs the rough surroundings to help her see a style that will fit these rough and tough people. Hence, everybody in my family has to be either really fast, and agile, or somehow able to always avoid the fights and keep themselves safe, or, be an extremely strong, fast, and lethal fighter, that is very difficult to beat. • My father died about three years ago, from lung cancer. But he didn’t leave us weakened by too much. When he discovered his ailment, he enrolled all of my siblings and I in the most advanced karate school he possibly could afford. I quickly excelled in karate, moving from white to black belt within a time span of two years, leaving many boys bruised and injured from the fights I had to fight to get my next belt. My mother, Kaiya, has made sure we keep excelling in karate, no matter how many degrees of black belt we become. There have been many situations where this becomes essential to our survival. I am the second oldest in my family, but the strongest and fastest as well. I am the best fighter in the family; the most agile, and the least exhausted after a good fight. I make no unnecessary movements and fight quickly and lethally. I sidestep a lot, dodging being my best skill, though the lethal fighting style I prefer is just as good. I am a third degree black belt; my mother has kept us in karate to keep us in good shape and we are never given a chance to forget how to fight.I have long since accepted that I am rightfully, and gladly, my family’s true and strong protector.