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[18 May 2008|03:46pm] |
Marcus Samuel Jackson.
As most stories would start, it was a dark and stormy night. An October night. Friday. To be more exact it was Friday the 13th. If you were superstitious, it would certainly be bad luck to anyone. But this day was special. This was the birth of a premature baby boy. The could were young at the time and that caused Mark to come early with complications. As his mother pushed, he would not want to come out and they immediately took place in an emergency c-section. When he finally arrived, he wouldn't move and wouldn't cry, but eventually they would hook him up to an incubator, just barely saving his life by a hair. After a few weeks being in ICU, he was finally able enough to go home. Right away James and Trina took instant care of him, bringing him up right and with cation because he never had a healthy heart, but he had a whole lot of soul. A year or so later, they welcomed two more children into their new family, Taylorre and Alexa. They have always been such a tight and loving family and they cared about each other constantly.
There's nothing more and nothing less to the family except for the occasional fighting, but when you have siblings, what else is there to do? It's all about the love! Growing up, Mark was one of those insanley genius boys who could be anything he wanted to. In kindergarten when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, unlike the other kids who said firemen, teachers and so on, he wanted to be Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Of course that was the time of Star Trek: the Next Generation, which, at a young age, he became mildly obsessed about. At a young age, he would beg his parents to let him go to Star Trek conventions. It wasn't until he was seven that he was allowed to go and that's when he had his first intercourse with his hero: Patrick Stewart. His eyes were wide and he just fell madly in love. He was always that geeky kid with the ears too big for his head that no one really liked. He had only one friend and that friend was Wesley: his invisible friend that he talked with all the time. Kids always thought he was the weird one until one day NAME came up to him and started hanging out with him for no apparent reasons. That's when things changed. He started gaining a couple more friends and had been friends ever since. Up until second grade, he had a friend to talk with at school until one day.. she got pulled out and started up home schooling. After-school was okay, but it was during school he had problems making friends. He was show shy and awkward. Mark has been in all kinds of spelling bees and science fairs, usually winning them all and was in the Talented And Gifted. For someone who acted retarded a good majority of the time, he sure was smart. When he reached high school, his mind decided that it wasn't set on being and started goofing off in class, making people laugh at his stupidity. It was kind of a shocker that he would start doing those kinds of things. After slacking off in class and getting multiple detentions, he still has time to get his papers done and pass all his exams with straight A's. Another shocker for everyone. No one knows how he does it, but he did it! He graduated in 2007 as one of the highest percentile in class, though letting two other people get valediction and salutatorian. As much as he loved giving speeches and talking, graduation sucked and the speeches were always lame.
Mark entered his freshman year in college at Princeton University. It was an extremely large step for him since it was nothing like high school. If you procrastinate or skip class, you would find yourself helpless and far behind. Mark didn't mind since he always knew how to ass kiss, though it normally worked with the lady teachers. Mark found himself coming home every other weekend since he missed his home, missed his family, but more importantly, he missed his friends. Though he had one other friend there, it just wasn't enough. The college lifestyle was different and it was harder to make friends since they were on an entirely different level than he was. After the first few months of slacking off and attempting to make it into the party life but failing miserably, he pulled himself together and did his work on time or earlier. That was a first for him. He got his grades up to at least a C by the time the end of the first term came around and towards the end of the school year, his grade point average actually improved more than one would expect and so soon. After that long year away from everyone, it was time to go back. Mark was now a changed man, still the same stupid boy, yet more mature in his own way. And there's even a few changes in his life.
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