Rock Hill is different a lot different from where Alisa is from she's from Clover which is only thirty minutes away but sometimes she feels as though she stepped onto another planet. She has lived in Rock Hill for almost three years and lived in Clover for five. Clover was pretty much all she knew before she moved, the small town with nothing but three lights the Food Lion and Clover Middle School. Clover didn't have a fancy mall not even a Wal-Mart but what it did have was enough in Alisa's eyes back then. Now, that she's here in Rock Hill she can see the grass is a little bit greener on the other side but she would be lying if she said she didn't miss it.
Alisa and her family moved because her Mom, DeWanda Gardin well now Evans married which was a big change for her adding a stepdad and stepbrother to the picture after years of it being just her Mom, brother, sister and her. Sometimes she does miss the old days definitely the part where she had her own room. Though she has really grown to love her stepdad and stepbrother that's right 'grown' it was a process for her. Just seeing how much her stepdad, Anthony loves her Mom is pretty much all that matters at the end of the day.
Alisa still remembers the day they moved not the date to be exact but she does know it was in March of 2012. She remembers breaking a nail trying to lift the living room couch by herself. She also remembers it taking eternal life to fill up the moving truck with all of their stuff just to have to move everything right back out the same night. It was a very grumpy and aggravating day for her but she got through it. She attended Castle Heights Middle School second semester of her eighth grade year and she's still in Rock Hill in eleventh grade at Northwestern on her way to graduating in 2016. Big dreams, big plans, just wait on it.
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