Then It's All Over and Done

The Life One Can Only Dream Of

I really don't know where to start. I mean I guess I should start with the beginning of the year, before it happened. I guess the year started off with that talk, the one me and Jason had.

But before we even start with the story I should probably give you some information about me. So my names Cara, Cara Abeny. I'm sixteen years old and I'm a junior at Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas. I have a lot of friends to be completely honest, but of course like every other teenage girl I have my favorites within my friend group. There are five people in that catagory and now that I'm really thinking about it I guess it's not really that these are my favorite friends they are really just the ones that I'm the closest to. So I guess they are just my best friends, but anyways my best friend list consists of Jason Best, the sweet amazing guy I met my eighth grade year at Highland Park Middle School he's the one that I am with every single minute of every day. Lexi Sanders, she's the funny one in our group the one who can cheer you up without even trying just by saying something that would take anyone's mind off of the sadness. Cooper Chandller, Cooper is that guy in your group of friends that maybe one or two of the other people in your group hate because of their huge personality but they keep quiet because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Margot Kiniff, everyone had a friend like Margot you know that friend who has the biggest opinions on everything and let's everyone know what they think about everything even when it's the rudest or most inappropriate thing that you could sware anyone with a brain would know not to say that would be Margot. Lastly we have Xander Baker, he's that really hot friend you have that all of the girls just adore and want more than life itself and is treated like a total God when in all honesty he is just a normal guy.

Anyways the beginning of the year for me at least was when means Jason were shopping at the Galleria Mall maybe two weeks before our Junior year started. We were in H&M and I was in the dressing room where you tried on the items you thought you wanted and Jason was standing right outside of the stall I was in waiting for me to show him how everything looked on me. As I was changing I heard him say, "Cara, have you ever thought that maybe you live the life other people can only dream of?" I didn't really understand what he was trying to say at the time. So our conversation went probably in the opposite direction than what he was probably intending for it to go but our conversation went alittle something like this:

Me: What? No, I don't think people would dream of being like me.

Jason: No? Why's that?

M: Because it seems stupid for someone to dream of being like me. My life isn't any better than any other teenage girls.

J: But it is. You're the most beautiful girl in Highland Park and you're only a junior, your hair is the perfect mix of light Browns and blonde and it is perfectly layered, your eyes are the perfect shade of blue just the color of the sea, and your skin has not a single blimish plus it's the perfect tan color all year. You don't even have to put a dab of make up on the look perfect you're a natural beauty queen. You have the best grades, and you can make friends with anyone. I mean obviously after all you are the most popular girl in school.

M: You think to highly of me Jason I'm not perfect.

Anyways this went on for a while and the thing is though that he was right I have the life that one could only dream of. Everything was perfect for me. I am extremely beautiful, smart, I can make friends really easly and my home life was pretty fantastic, too. But within months that would change.