Once Upon A Time
New layout, as you can see. I knew I needed to change up the site a bit, and I just fell in love with the photo of the boys. I spent a couple of days messing with it until I got it right, but I love it. Hopefully more content will accompany it soon, though I’ve got tons of work to do elsewhere, so who knows?
I want to take this blog and tell a story. A very random, personal story, that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. This is the story of a girl, a year, and a LOT of confusion. Oh, and I’ve changed the names.
Once upon a time there was a girl named Kyrie. She was fifteen, and she was pretty sure she had everything figured out. She knew who her friends were, she knew who her friends weren’t, she knew who she liked, and she knew who she didn’t. She spent her time, for the most part, with a group of seven people that she loved very much: her bestfriends Beth and Diana, Hailey, Diana’s boyfriend Ryan, and Ryan’s friends Steve and Fred. She was going into her sophomore year of high school confident that everything was set in stone. Oh, how wrong she was.
For the first few months of the year, everything went pretty great. The group met a few times at Diana’s house and hung out, Beth spent her weekends at Kyrie’s house like usual, and Kyrie was adjusting perfectly to her new schedule. She spent her free time working on her website or talking to her friends. She had developed a kind of crush on Fred, but it didn’t bother her much, and she was happy.Life was good, or so she thought.
October rolled around, and things were still relatively okay. Kyrie went to homecoming, which sucked, but and she’d lost her focus in Algebra and wasn’t doing as well as she’d like, but she wasn’t too concerned. In fact, she felt better than ever, or so she thought. But things were changing. Beth had found herself a new boy toy, Jeff, and she was rather preoccupied with him. The school had just given everyone nice new Macbooks to play with, and everybody spent more time on Petville than they did actually seeing eachother. Diana had a bit of a mental breakdown moment at the end of the month, and Kyrie started feeling really really weird.
November was upon them before Kyrie knew what had happened, and things were a blur. Between drama, Beth’s new relationship, Ryan’s birthday party, and self-esteem issused that could’ve only been caused by Kyrie’s crush on Fred, things were confusing. She spent her days prettymuch on her own, focused on school, and her nights were spent being harassed by Ben, the most tolerable of her three internet harassers.
Surprisingly, December went by smoothly, and very little happened. Hailey had gotten herself a boyfriend, but other than that, not much happened. There was sledding, merriment, and mostly good times. January was a different story.
So much happened to bring in the new year that things got a little hard to grasp. By the end of the month, Kyrie felt so lost she didn’t know what was happening anymore. She’d gotten over Fred, she’d learned what Steve really thought of her (through Diana), she had studied her butt off for midterms, and she hadn’t gotten to see Nick Jonas, which depressed her greatly. Diana had become oddly distant, Beth was wrapped up in her boyfriend, and the only dependable thing about everyday was that Kyrie knew at some point each day she’d be harassed by Ben. This continued into February, which held nothing but bad things; more confusion, more distance, and more drama.
Well, almost nothing but bad things. In February, Kyrie did meet someone amazing. Through a lot of confusion, a lying midget and Ryan as a messenger, Kyrie met Ron. Soon, she spent everyday after school talking to Ron, laughing and joking and enjoying herself, and it became one of the best parts of her days.
March saw Kyrie’s sixteenth birthday; April saw Beth and Diana in crisis, and the end of Diana and Ryan’s relationship; May saw AP exams, panic attacks, and more friend crises, and before Kyrie knew it, June was upon them, and nothing was the same. Kyrie hardly talked to Steve or Fred anymore, Beth was lost in her problems and leaving for a different school, Diana was moving at the end of the summer, Ron was leaving the beginning of July, she and Ben seemed to actually be getting along, he was about to graduate, and she spent her time talking to new people, like Audrey, who she’d known for a while but never been close to.
Summer came and Kyrie realized how much everything had fallen apart. Diana went on a long vacation, and came home with news of moving across the world, and the extreme desire to leave town as soon as possible. Ron went home, leaving Kyrie with memories of a perfect night, a hug, an iPod he told her to name after him, and a promise to return. Beth got more stable, kind of, but Kyrie realized that there were likely to be more issues soon. Audrey, who Kyrie had known for years, became a good friend and confident, and Kyrie even hung out with Ben. And she did a lot of thinking… What happened?
When did everything fall apart? Why? When did these people come into her life, and what happened to the people that were left behind? Kyrie was used to losing things, but she’d never gone through such a drastic change without moving across the country. It felt weird. But not bad. Because Kyrie’s confident, I’m confident that everything will work out just fine, it just needs some time.
