My name is Kaylar, a 15-year-old girl dreaming like a fool all the time. Refusing to come back to reality, I lived in Botswana, a country known for its diamonds.
I lived a very hard life, sometimes normal. I didn't know whether someday I would make it in life. Looking at my school grades, they were disappointing.
What hit me hard in life was that there was no one to trust, no one to ask, "Are you okay?" I had no friends at all because when I was 13, I was betrayed by my friend, and I promised myself I would never look for friends again in my life.
At home, I lived with my dad, mom, and my younger sister. Her name was Abi. She was really rude, stubborn, and annoying at the same time. We always fought, and my parents would scold me for that. But I really love her because she is my blood, a part of me that I will never abandon
My mom and I worked hard to do everything for the family. The thing that bothered me all the time was my grades. My parents would always say, "Read your books so that one day you will see yourself far from here." The truth is that I really hated reading unless it was storybooks — that was the part I loved
When I was 12 years old, I became obsessed with Chinese drama. The way they acted, I loved it. I knew how to speak some Chinese language and Korean. I wanted to see myself one day crossing those oceans and meeting my love story there. I had a husband in my imagination called He Yu. He was the one making me crazy all of a sudden. When I watched his dramas, I would be crazy. The girl who acted with him, Esther Yu, I loved her too. Sometimes I would be jealous when they made their romantic moves in the scene, but I understood that it was part of an act.