Be Careful What You Wish For.

Prologue

Be Careful What You Wish For.

As a kid, you don't wish things with precaution. You don't think, "Is this what I really want?" I, Lily Noelle Greene made that mistake. At 11:11 pm, when the moon was full, and the sky was flooded with illuminating stars, I made the most wish in the history of wishes. Being my immature, eight year- old, adolescent self, I asked the stars if I could be an adult; and I regret every second of it.

Adulthood is totally overrated. It is nothing like being in your childhood, being I skipped most of it. There are taxes, things I didn't even know existed as a third grader. New York City commute was... horrible. I missed 10 years of my education; Elementary, middle, and high school. I had no experience at anything, whatsoever; unless being playground monitor counts, I've got that.

The explanation of that, that life- changing wish was my parents. I saw them, and they looked so happy. But, that only happens when you're sixty years- old and retired; not as a twenty- two year- old woman with no money, no job experience, and about three years of elementary schooling. I wanted to be like them. I wanted to live a care- free lifestyle, when all you had to do was drop your daughter off to her school about 3 minutes away from your house.

Even if being an adult was challenging, I was going to get through it. I can't go back to being that sixty pound thin girl that had her mom wash her up. That girl that had no responsibilities and everything was handed to her. She didn't eat her fruits and veggies and thought boys had cooties. I had to wash myself now. I now had responsibilities, and had to earn any and everything I wanted/ needed. I had to eat my fruits and veggies. But... I still think boys have cooties. I was going to get through this stage of my life, one step at a time.