Chapter 1

Chapter 1.

It was a normal summer day. Ivy was on her computer, locked in her room like usual. But, today was different. What’s different you may ask? Well, Ivy was doing her first interview for a record company. All other interviews she wanted to do with other record companies, they all denied Ivy because of Tourette’s. But this time, she didn’t mention her disorder on the resume, so it gave her an advantage.

Tourette’s made Ivy swear randomly, obscene gestures, eye darting, cleared her throat, and so much more. Because of those tics, it made her not have the ability to get into college. So, instead of going to college to study music first, Ivy is trying to go right into the music industry.

As a child, Ivy was a normal child, at least until she was about 5 or so. She played outside, hung out with her friends from kindergarten, normal kid stuff. But, when the age of 5 hit, it went downhill. It started with shrugging constantly, then the eye darting. This all eventually led to hopping, obscene gestures, and more. Ivy was then taken out of public schooling and was homeschooled.

During those hard times, Ivy started to get into singing. Singing seemed like the only thing that would take the tics away for a while. Ivy would even sometimes say to herself “Human beings suffer. They torture one another. They get hurt and get hard.”[1] Ivy’s favorite poem was The Cure at Troy, it always seemed to fit her in some way.

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[1] Quote from The Cure at Troy

Author's Note

This was a school assignment, and we had to include language from 3 different sources we looked at. This chapter includes footnotes from that assignment.