Soleil

One of my friends, Molly, her grandmother was a witch.

She would lend us some of her books and stuff.

So we just kind of went nuts with that.

We just had a really good time.

like, doing little spells we would find in this book.

At one point, my mom found a note that I had written to one of my friends, and I was talking about the witchcraft and stuff that we were doing, and she was like, what is this?

And my stepdad, he'd never really been confronted with anything like that before, and he didn't understand that it was, like, kids kind of messing around, and he took it really seriously.

That same year, I was at a school dance, and there was a girl who had brought a gun to the school dance.

It was a whole thing.

Like, all the parents got called, and my mom had to come pick us up.

And, like, everybody was, you know, like, we all got escorted out of the gymnasium.

My mom was like, this is it.

You're going to Christian school.

And so I ended up going to Christian school for—Cultural Service Christian school for a year.

And that was a really traumatizing experience because I kind of got ripped away from all of my friends and put in this school where I was just sort of automatically the odd one out.

I remember one of my teachers...

At one point, it was dress down day and I came in wearing like a Linkin Park t-shirt.

I was, you know, seventh grade.

And he told me that I was an agent of Satan and made me face my desk against the wall.

And I wasn't allowed to sit with everybody else.