Things I Shouldn't Have Done

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Kyla Foster

Madison Steele and I have known each other since diapers. We walked together and said our first words. A friendship that lasts more than a decade. A friendship that will last. No matter how different we are, we still understand each other best.

Madison is loud, popular and beautiful. She can have any guy she wants and lots of people want to hang out with her.

The opposite of me - I'm very short, unpopular and not that pretty. Mom says it's because of dentures and thick hair. She says she would be beautiful enough like Maddy if she changed that about herself.

I don't want to change, I like the way I look. I am natural and today most of the girls I know have changed something in themselves. Even Madison couldn't resist raising her cheekbones and raising her upper lip.

I mean, we live in Los Angeles, something quite normal in an age where we have the Kardashians as role models. The normalization of unnatural bodies is normal. Even though we live in a crazy generation, I want to stay normal.

As much as I can. Madison says I should change with the trends. That's why she has a new hair color every season. Now it's bleached blue for summer.

Don't get me wrong, I love Maddy and she loves me. But I don't like that he is able to do everything just for the sake of others. With me, she practically just acts the way she really is.

I really don't have any friends other than her. I mean, she was always enough for me.. Because no matter how many other friends Madison has, I'm still more real friend to her of them. And she makes it clear that it is so.

My mom and Madison's were roommates when they were studying. They even got married in the same year and got pregnant. Madison is only a five months older than me. So it was logical that the two of us have been inseparable since childhood.

Madison's mom died a few years ago. And that was one of the reasons why she changed so much. And started hanging out with the other popular kids. I know it affected her more than she can admit. It's my mom too.

After the death of Madison's mom, her dad found a girl - barely ten years older than us. They even plan to get married this summer. I know Madison doesn't approve of Dad's new girlfriend no matter how good she tries to be to her.

However, apart from her mother's death and her father's new relationship, her life is practically perfect. She lives in a huge villa with a swimming pool and has a boyfriend - Ryker Blaze. One of the richest men around here.

His father is the famous film director Stephen Blaze, who directed several Hollywood hits.

But Ryker is kind of down to earth. And he treats Madison well, but this way he has a not-so-nice reputation.

And I wish I could say the same for her. But not really...Madison had a lot of boyfriends before him, and her first one broke her heart and destroyed her faith in men.

That's why her next relationships were just fun. Now she's playing with their hearts and breaking them just like that boy broke hers.

I'm waiting for her and Ryker to break up but they've been together for over eight months now. She had never been with someone that much.

"Do you love him?" I asked her once while she was making him a Valentine's Day present.

"Whatever. Like love exists."

"Then why are you with him?"

She glared at me at that and since then I never dared to ask her such a question.

As for my love life, it doesn't exist. For two reasons: I'm not very attractive to boys, and I also believe in Madison's theory that love doesn't exist.