MeMe has it all. I know she's my sister and people tell me we are so much a like, I just don't see it. She has so much more ahead of her in her life, but won't take the chances. She was nothing I could live up to. Track star, A+ student, mom and dad's favorite, homecoming queen, and every boy's dream. But she's not doing anything about it. She's been accepted into the top schools, but chooses to go to Alabama to stay within the "south", with her friends.. All those times spent as a child, talking about our futures, I thought she was better than that. I always pictured her going to UCLA and going out of her comfort zone. Turns out she's different.
Which is where our differences become clear.
I want to get out of this suffocating world surrounded by walls trapping you in Birmingham, Alabama.
I was looking forward to joining MeMe at UCLA just like we had talked about. I feel like she's abandoning me. Leaving me here. Alone. For 2 more years.
I can't think of her leaving without a puddle forming in my eye creating this blurry vision I seem to carry with me once I lock myself inside my room.
My best friend, my partner in crime... is leaving. Going away, to do everything she can in this southern state school where I never saw myself since a young age.
We are gonna grow apart. She might be a few minutes away, living in her dorm room. But she will have new friends and grow further and further apart from me and I won't be able to tell her everything like I used to.
I just can't imagine my past 16 years of life, separating me from my life long friend.
Now, this is a story that I would read.
ReplyDeleteMe too! This sounds like the beginning of your story to me.
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