The words slip out of my mind as I look up from my writing paper, and see the sky. I look at my name written on the paper, Mackenzie. I dream of getting out of here, school is my worst nightmare. I have the academic part down, but the people here are terrible. Yup I said it, terrible. Middle school is cut throat, it’s filled with the worst people ever! The only people here I can trust is my best friend Talia and My crush, Oliver Colins. The thing about me is I am a puzzle waiting to be completed, I don’t know who I am or want I want yet. I am just a girl who’s lost and trying to be found. I may not like it but I am me and there is no escaping it.

When the bell rings to go to lunch I feel free like a bird, Talia and Oliver wait for me at our table everyday. Talia and I are the grade outcasts, Oliver is the most popular guy in the seventh grade, but he chooses to stand with us, the outcasts. Sometimes I wonder how long it would take for anyone notice if I stopped talking. It’s friday night and I’m in my bed staring at my blank writing sheet, my phone is ringing and I picked it up and realized Oliver was calling me! I answer the call and the first words that came out of his mouth were: “Mackenzie whenever I look at your face butterflies form in my stomach and I think about how lucky I am to have you in my life and I have this burning sensation to pull you in for a kiss and just say “I love you”.” “Oliver I feel the same way.” And next thing i know we are at the movie eating slushies and laughing. The weekend passes and I go to school and I see Oliver kissing Talia and I run out of the school and to the lake and my last words were “I am but a puzzle”