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    That day was the beginning of a new life for Bella. It was the day she lost her virginity, the day she turned fifteen, and the day she left the Reeds.

CHAPTER TWO
    ELSIE

    Dear Journal,
    Today I am starting a new venture—not only am I starting a new venture, I’m ready to make some serious changes in my life. I’m ready to share my life with a child. How is this going to happen when I’m a gay woman? Well, it’s happened for many other gay women. I just need to look into the options that are available and God willing, I’ll be a mother.
    Today I’m opening my nonprofit organization called the Essence of Self Center. I’m so thankful to be given this opportunity to assist in the growth of young women. We should be willing to give back because what goes around comes around and when you help others good things come your way. It’s called karma.
    This past year has been one of growth, setbacks, heartaches, heartbreaks, and bullshit, but I’ve overcome and I’ll continue to overcome.
    So, journal, I start this morning off by thanking you for being the one consistent thing in my life that I could turn to and talk to without judgments.
    Everyone should be so lucky.
    Your friend, Elsie

    E lsie found herself thinking about babies constantly. She was ready to be a mother, a birth mother, not an adoptive mom, not a foster mom, and not a godmother. She wanted her very own child and she wanted a baby to come out of her womb. The question remained, how it would get there, because she wasn’t up to fucking a man, that wasn’t going to happen.
    Elsie was seriously considering getting a sperm donor. Once she got the Essence of Self Center up and running, she was going to start researching the process.
    Every morning when she woke up, her mind was on motherhood. Perhaps it was because she often dreamed of her ex-girlfriend, Summer, and her daughter, Winter. If she had not been such an asshole and they would have stayed together, they would be a family. She would be a mother by extension and then maybe, just maybe, she wouldn’t be so pressed to have a child.
    It was five in the morning when Elsie glanced at her clock. She hadn’t even set her alarm; it was like her body knew she was on a mission that morning. Elsie stretched across the bed and let out a big yawn.
    â€œGod, I thank you for another day,” Elsie said out loud just before she climbed out of the bed. She walked into her bathroom, flicked on the light, opened the doors to her shower, and turned the water on. She had quite a morning planned and there was nothing like a cool shower to wake her body up.
    She took off the only thing she wore to bed, her panties, climbed in the shower, stood under the water, and let the coolness hit her body.
    She threw her head back, allowing the water to hit her face and run down to her throat, while she psyched herself up for the hour and a half that lay ahead. She was meeting with Angel, her personal trainer, at the park.
    Elsie reached on top of the door for her rag, grabbed her peppermint body gel, and wiped her body down while inhaling the scent, invigorating her mind.
    Ten minutes later she dried off and threw on some deodorant, sweatpants, a sports bra, and a T-shirt.
    Why she let Angel talk her into doing a boot camp workout, was beyond her. She was comfortable sticking with the treadmill and free weights; too bad it wasn’t enough. She wasn’t seeing the changes in her body she wanted to see.
    When she told Angel, “I work out almost five days a week. I’ve improved my eating habits but I’m not getting the results I want,” Angel told her, “you should never get too comfortable with your workout because once you do your body gets comfortable, and that’s when you’ll stop seeing changes. What good is it to do all this work if your body stays the same?”
    Elsie had to admit, Angel was on point with that one because whenever she