Old Friend

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picture: samantha/sam (her younger sister - played by sasha pieterse)

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If there was one thing my mother taught me, it was to do what makes me happy. Sadly, I arrived at home five minutes before midnight and I had to sneak inside so she wouldn't catch me. My mom was never the type of mom who would give curfews to her kids, although she wouldn't be happy if she caught me right now, tiptoeing through the staircase, trying my best not to make a sound and waking everybody up in the house.

I'd rather have her scolding me about coming home late in the morning, more than reprimanding me at night. Though she's always told me to do what makes me the happiest, she's also told me not to skip out on my schoolwork.

And here I am, sitting straight on my bed, trying to figure out this trigonometry problem. I mean, when will we ever use this in real life? It's not like we'd need to find out everything about math to solve the problems of the real world.

I groaned and rested my head on one of my pillows and looked up the ceiling. I need a break from this.

Above me was yellow stars, all in different sizes plastered on the wall. The only thing emitting light inside my room was those multiple stars and my laptop light.

However when I'm tired, lonely, stressed out, or just feeling like shit, I just look up. It reminded me so much of dad. When I was younger, he used to take me out to the park, at any time just to watch the stars. He told me so much about them, that I, myself, became so fascinated by them.

Here in California, stars don't pass by often. And I don't mean that theres none, it's just that you couldn't compare the beauty of the sky of New York to this.

Ours is bland, almost empty whilst theirs was overflowing with little luminous points in the atmosphere. It was almost...empty. And with all the schoolwork I needed to do, I don't have time to just sit down and appreciate what's around me.

When I saw this, I asked my dad if I could get stars on my room, just to remind me of home. Don't get me wrong, my life in New York was filled with so much miserable things, but it was also one of the happiest moments in my life.

It was where my mom and dad met, where I made my first friend, and so on and so forth.

But when I do, it's always in the wrong time.

For instance, when I get the time, my body completely shuts down on me.

And that's basically what's happening right now. My eyelids were becoming heavy and droopy so it became harder for me to keep my eyes open. In short, I was slowly drifting to sleep.

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