Dear journal,

I wish these feelings would go away. There’s no way it will ever work. Being a teenager stinks as if it's not confusing enough falling for someone doesn't help any. Maybe one day I'll be able to convince myself to forget it. Right now I just need to ignore it. Why would he ever go out with me anyway i’m just his best friends little sister?

-KK

Dear journal,

Why can't I tell he...

I lay in bed staring at the ceiling as I thought Today! The day I couldn’t wait to come and the day I dreaded the most it was here. Boone was here back in the states he landed in Virginia last night he’ll fly in a few hours. How is he going to react? Boone was my best friend I knew him practically inside out I knew his favorite songs what he ordered nearly everywhere we would eat. I could see him ...

The way a little kid holds a crayon and draws of the paper amazes me. To an adult or teenager it looks like scribbles and crayon marks on a page, but to them it’s a picture of a cow or a dog or an airplane or an American flag, maybe it’s their family or the stray or lost dog that showed up at their house. I got to watch the kids draw and paint today they are so simple they don’t care of perfection...

Girls POV

Why did I come on this date with this guy? I said was looked at myself in the mirror of the ladies bathroom this had got to be the worst date ever.

He took me to a steak house, and we ended up in the booth beside the bar great. But he was so fake, and stupid most everything he said I could find the tiny or freakin’ huge loop hole he missed, like he really didn’t know I had lived in thi...