It's 1985, a normal ordinary summer for Natalie, while her cousins are either doing an internship or watching the movies. While looking for a job, she bumps into a freckled girl, she looked pretty, gorgeous even. What turned into a normal summer tur...
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Natalie layed down on her stomach, A Lord of The Rings book is in her hand. Rumors blast through her headphones loudly. It's like she is stuck in her little world, as Stevie Nicks voice fills her room. Natalie kicks her feet up in the air. This is her life, and she likes living it this way. Most people hate being alone, but she enjoys it.
Just Having her own space to herself. All is disrupted when her mom bursts into her room. She took off her headphones with a confused expression " Yeah"
"Que estas haciendo" ( What are you doing?")
She looks at the corner of her room, and back at her mother, still very confused. "Leyando?" ( Reading)
" You know, there's this new mall that opened?"
"Ok...Cool" She said trying to sound interested
Natalie picked up the book, flipping to where she left off.
"Mijita, it's just that, you can't just have your nose stuck in a book all the time. You need to go out and make some friends. Who knows maybe one day you could get a boyfriend."
Natalie had her eyebrows furrowed. " I don't need a boyfriend, I'm fine on my own."
For some reason, she wasn't as boy-crazy as people her age. Teenage girls are usually obsessed with talking about that cute boy on the block. And Natalie never understood that. Never once did.
" You're young, take advantage of your youth, I mean look at your cousin, she's doing an internship at Hawkins Post."
Nancy- always Nancy. Her mom always has to find some way to compare her. In her eyes, Nancy Wheeler is perfect, intelligent, beautiful, and sometimes that would make Natalie jealous. Jealous that she won't get as praised as her. Sometimes she wonders if Nancy is just the daughter she expects. Natalie doesn't want that life, just to settle down for a guy who doesn't even care in a cul de sac with three kids.
Natalie's tone turned a little bitter, her eyes are squinted. " Good for her"
" Just- think about it. Here's the newspaper, since you like reading so much."
She tossed it onto her bed, Natalie let a sigh and grabbed it. A huge advert for Starcourt Mall is the first thing she sees filling up the middle of the page.
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