Hi i'm Cassidy but all my friends call me Cass. At least all of my friends in New York. I haven't been able to make any friends in California yet. Probably because i haven't even been in LA for a week but that's to the point. I'll get you up to speed.
I was born on July 17th, 2004. My parents were both big-time lawyers so i grew up with my sister in a really nice apartment suite in New York, New York. They worked a lot so i had lots of time to wander around the city with my friends. I was always invited to parties in New York but mostly because my best friend, Paige, was basically the queen bee of our school. I don't even know how Paige and i became friends, it kinda just happened. She was the cheer captain and homecoming queen, you know the type. I guess she could be mean to other people, but with me she was always the sweetest person. Of the girls i hung out with, Paige was the only one i expected to stay in contact with. Something you should know about Paige is that she has the fastest response time of anyone i know. Like seriously, if she doesn't text you back in 60 seconds then she really isn't that into you buddy. Anyway, i texted her yesterday and she hasn't replied yet so she's probably just busy. Oh yeah, i should probably tell you why I moved to LA. My parents got divorced, it was kind of a bit deal and really brutal court settlement. Since i'm 16, my parents let me choose who i wanted to live with. Of course, i would have stayed with whoever was staying in New York but then they announced that they were going to sell the place in the city and move elsewhere and them Mom says she's going to move to Canada! Like what?!? I decided to follow Dad across the country to Cali, which sucks, especially since he's trying to be all positive about it. Paige asked me to get the autograph of her favourite Tik Toker, Luke Daniels. She said it all deadpan too like she actually expected me to befriend all the famous residents of LA. I think you're all caught up at this point.
By the way, it's August right now so that's why i'm not in school. Because i have no obligations and no friends I've been spending a lot of time on my phone. Paige convinced me to download Tik Tok last month as a joke but at this point, i spend most of my day watching videos. Paige actually had a bit of clout since she just radiates energy, you can probably feel it through the screen. She has like 11k followers or something so she occasionally pops up on my for you page. I saw one today and it made me miss home. Paige always tried to get me to make Tik Toks with her because she thought we were going to get famous together or something. Obviously that didn't work out since I'm awkward and clumsy. It's not that i can't dance, I've been dancing since i could walk it's that i can't dance in front of a camera. It's so awkward and intimidating to dance in public and Paige liked to make fun of me for it. If i could've chosen, i would've taken up hockey instead of dance but it was never really my choice.
Screw it, i'm gonna make a Tik Tok. My account is basically empty except for a video of a turtle i thought was entertaining. My 16 followers liked it but probably because 8 of them were Paige's "backup" accounts. I chose i really popular song. Great, i'm really fitting the basic white girl template now i said looking at myself in the mirror. My hair is long and wavy, falling all the way to my waist. I'm wearing a cropped tee that Paige and i thrifted last year with a pair of ripped denim shorts. I even had a matching scrunchie on my wrist. Looking at myself in the mirror, i felt uncomfortable. I don't consider myself ugly, but all my friends were really pretty and, well, skinny. I, on the other hand, had a large ribcage and thick thighs. Whatever i thought to myself, Nobody in California knows who i am or cares that i make this video. It'll be one of the millions of videos of girls dancing that just get forgotten in the Tik Tok universe. I kept reshooting it because in every video i felt like there was something wrong with me, but by the ninth or tenth take, i started to just vibe with the music. It was fun, all things considered, and i decided to start making more Tik Toks in my free time. I looked outside, it was dark, i turned off my phone and went to bed.
