In eighth grade I had about 4 friends but that was enough for me. I didn't care enough to pick out my outfits so everyday I would wear my moms oversized hoodies and jeans with stains on them. One day I got in a verbal fight with a kid and he said "at least I'm not poor"!! Well I'm 13 so obviously I'm poor but I knew he meant my parents and I had no idea what he was talking about. After my best friend told me it was because of my clothes I begged my grandpa to take me shopping. We bought like 5 outfits that I wore on repeat but was called "preppy" because I now owned 1 hollister zip up jacket and gaucho pants.
That summer my BFF decided to put blue into my blonde hair, messed it up and ended up dying my whole head blue. My father called me a smurf and was beyond angry when I went with him to "take your kid to work day" with turquoise hair and a shirt the same color. He made me and my brother sit on the couch in the ren cens hotel lobby in fear that he would be called "that dad" for having the kid with blue hair. I didn't bother dying it back until well into freshman year and my freshman school photo proves it.
High school was the time for my rebel days while also trying to go to church and be a good kid. Ironic, really. Once, when my parents were out of town I decided I would take their car for a joyride. I did after all have my permit, what could go wrong? I picked up the boy I was madly "in love" with and a few friends and we had a pathetic excuse for a party where we all shared 1 beer and tried rum and compared it to sucking on a sharpie marker. After my parents found out (they checked the mileage and my brother ratted me out, sneaky bitchez) I had no social life, lost all my friends, and basically got grounded for every little thing there after.
My step dad did not like me for some reason and chose sneaky ways to show it. About 3/4ths of my 4 years in high school were spent grounded for one thing or another. And grounding is not the typical don't go out with your friends kind of thing. My groundings included but were not limited to: no friends, no phone, no computer, no tv, no church (I had friends there), no reading (I enjoyed reading), no going outside unless with my parents, and no playing with any toys (I was 16 and they felt the need to still make that clear). I also got grounded for the simplest things. I was grounded for things such as 1 week for forgetting to shut the front door, 4 months for the little car stunt, 1 week for telling my step dad he sucked monkey balls (LOL), and 3 weeks for showing my brother my parents disgusting porn stash I found while snooping (again, LOL). Now you people understand why rules scare me and why I don't like following them!
Senior year some things turned around and I became the editor in chief of the high school newspaper with my best friend. Everything was going awesome until her and I decided to pull our own evil end of the year prank. We made the horoscopes every month (oh yeah I'm a star reader) and started from January we gradually made the horoscopes meaner and meaner. The first couple months people laughed at the stupid things they said, things like "scorpios, watch out if you have a hot mom, your friend is into cougars", but eventually we made them so mean and caused a freaking RIOT!!!! One example was "congratulations seniors, you're leaving high school with no friends and no life- dont plan on gaining one in college either" hahahaha we were heartless. Every hour that day we had students coming in to bitch at us and we shooed them away. Students and teachers called the newsroom complaining and my advisor who is cool as hell just laughed and said they were dumb for believing high school horoscopes. My oh my what a day.
Coming to college I didn't know what to expect but thankfully I did gain a life and friends :-)
Later I'll tell you about the downfall of my social existence in high school and how I became to be "public enemy number 1"
Love, the babbling blonde
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