Vanola-Ann Choices

By Marion P. Myers

Vanola Ann and her friends, Diane and Kristen, have so many choices to make, but will they choose the right ones? Some of Vanola Ann’s acquaintances have decisions to make also. Perhaps you can help them decide. The choices they make now will impact their lives later. (And the choices you make now will impact your life later too!)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664119727

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Copyright © 2020 by Marion P. Myers.

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Book cover art work by Ja’Maya S. Currie

Rev. date: 07/22/2020

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CONTENTS

Introduction

You Trippin’

Cyberspace Trouble

Text Mess

Say What?

Driving and Drinking

Staying Healthy

Hair

Family Does Matter

Peer Pressure

I Got This

Get with the Program

About the Author

INTRODUCTION

L ET ME INTRODUCE myself, I’m Ann-Elizabeth Harris. But I prefer you call me Vanola Ann. I’ll tell you why later. I’m fourteen years old. I have a real cool brother. His name is Kelvin. He’s seventeen and in the eleventh grade. He plays basketball. Kelvin is almost six feet tall. To me, he looks all right, but all my friends have a serious crush on him. He looks after me and is very protective, sometimes too protective. My parents are very strict, but I know they care about us. We live in the city where so many good and bad things happen. My mother owns a daycare center. All those little kids can be brats at times, but that’s how I make my money. I work a few days after school. I even have a little babysitting job. Sometimes my mom’s customers ask me to babysit on the weekends.

My dad is a computer technologist. He repairs computers. He also makes them. By the way, I’m a daddy’s girl, but I still don’t get my way all the time. He loves electronics. Every gadget that’s out there, we have it. He says we have to keep up with technology. He hopes one of us goes to college for computer technology. I may consider it. But for my brother Kelvin, he has his eyes on being a doctor. He doesn’t know what kind yet. Oh, I almost forgot, my parents take care of our little cousin, Pablo. Pablo is eight years old going on twenty. He lives with us, at least for now. And he is a real pain at times. He’s my cousin Ryan’s son. Ryan is in the Air Force. His mom and my mom are sisters. My aunt Mary died when he was twelve, and since then, Ryan has lived with us. Ryan’s girlfriend is from Mexico and had to go back home for a while. She asked my mom if Pablo could stay with us until she gets back.

Now let me tell you about me. I’m kind of tall, five feet eight inches, with long hair. I have a dark brown complexion. I love tennis. I’m on the tennis team. I’ve also been told I could be a model, but I’m not feeling that. I came up with the name Vanola Ann because I am so dark, and the color of vanilla is white. Get it? Vanola is for vanilla. Boys in school say, To be so dark, you are very pretty.

Oh, so dark skin can’t be pretty? I’d ask.

Then they give me a real stupid