“You know when you have this strange feeling that some-thing’s up and you just can’t shake it? Well, I’ve had that feeling for, like, a month now. It’s weird. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop but I haven’t even heard the first one yet.”

—myspace.com

One thing you need to know about me is that I don’t do the status quo thing and for that reason, my mom and I argue, my dad and I argue, and my boyfriend and I argue, but one thing that’s set in stone, I can count on them no matter what to always give me my way. You see, that’s because bottom line is, it’s all about me, Kenisha Lewis.

I’m cool and all, they say I’m spoiled, pampered, whatever, I’m just like my mom, but make no mistake, I handle my business. I love to dance and I dance everything, jazz, modern, tap, even a little ballet, but mostly I dance hiphop. Dance is the one thing in my life I can count on and I’m good, real good.

I go to Hazelhurst Academy for Girls in Northern Virginia. It’s right across the bridge from D.C. so we can, like, look out the window and see the for real world. My school is all right, I guess. Seriously preppy, but that’s okay sometimes. Right now it’s summer, Tuesday, August-something, hot like somebody kicked open a furnace door and just left it.

So, up until a while ago my candy-ass life was perfect. At least that’s what everybody thought from the outside looking in and I just let them think it ’cause up until then it was kind of true. It wasn’t a never-ending extreme shopping spree or anything like that but I was seriously cultivating my significance. I had the perf