The girl of the sunsets

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There's nothing better than being alone at the beach in the sunset. Everyday the sky is painted by different colours when the sun sets down, and that's my favourite thing in the world. It helps me to relax, to think about my things.

I come to the beach to see the sunset everyday, because luckily I live in Brooklyn and the nearest beach is 12 minutes far walking.

When I come here to the beach to see the sunset, I listen to music and read or I just listen to the sound of the waves crashing against the shore.

Today I'm listening to music, and right now the sky is full of the sunset colours. I'll never get tired of it.

Suddenly I see that I have a message from my best friend Maddie. We've been best friends since we were 4 years old, and to be honest she is like my sister. We spend a lot of time together, and I love that.

I check the message, "wanna come over?" I reply a "yes, be there in 15 mins" and I start my way to Maddie's house.

Music is a very important part in my life, so I always listen to music while I'm driving. I play the piano since I was 4, and whenever I want to relax or forget about things for a little while, I just play the piano or listen to music, and it helps me a lot. I go to a completely different world.

When I arrive I get out of the car and knock on the door. We're on the last week of June, and it's so hot here so I just wait for someone who's gonna open the door to be somewhere with air conditioner. The door is opened by Maddie's mom, and I just say "hey" and go upstairs to my best friend's room. She opens the door and hugs me, because we haven't seen each other for 4 days.

"I have lots of things to tell you. In the past 4 days so much has happened, Emery" she says excited.

"I can't wait to know everything" I tell her, and then we sit on the bed.

"Okay so. You know the guy I went to prom with, right?"

"Yes, of course" I say.

"Four days ago he texted me in the morning and we talked a little bit. Then in the afternoon he asked me if I wanted to have dinner in the car with him, and I told him yes, because I had nothing better to do. So we went to the Mcdonald's drive thru and grabbed dinner. We ate while we talked in the car, and then he took me home. That night we talked a lot, until 3am and the next day we did pretty much the same thing" she stops to breathe because she hasn't stopped even a second. "But then when he took me home, after I thanked him for the afternoon and the drive he asked me if he could kiss me. I was caught off guard, but I obviously told him no, that he would have to make more effort to kiss me. You know that we aren't easy to get, but I'm not gonna lie, I wanted that kiss so bad"

"That's right. They must make an effort, not every girl is going to throw at them in the first try. " I tell her happy for her. Men are usually used to get the girl they want in the first try, and I think they should make an effort to get a girl.

I don't want a boyfriend at the moment. It's just one more responsibility and then they break your heart or you break theirs and everything is over. I don't want to go through that again, not right now, so I keep boyfriends and that kind of stuff apart.

"Yesterday we went to the cinema, but we got bored of the film and went to the beach and saw the sunset. It reminded me of you" she says and I smile. She knows that I go to the beach to see that everyday.

"So what happened today?" I ask her.

"I went to his house and we spent the afternoon talking and eating junk food" she says laughing.

"Oh, sounds pretty good. I'm happy for you Maddie, I know you like this boy" It's obvious. Right now when she just talked about him her eyes have become brighter.

"Thank you Em. You sure you don't want boyfriends or boys at all?" she's always asking me this. She has some boys behind her, but I don't. I've had one boyfriend and that was it.

"Yes Maddie. I don't want to go again through what I went, so yes. No boys for the moment."

"Okay, but don't think every guy is like him because there are a lot of good guys out there, you just happened to date a dumbass" she reassures me, and I try to smile at her.

"Don't worry. It's 10:15pm, I should go back home now"

"Yes, go. We'll see tomorrow Em. Bye" she says as she hugs me before I go.

"Bye, and talk with him at night" I say and we laugh. I get out of the house and start walking home.

I enter into the house and I find dad preparing dinner and mom watching the TV. Dad preparing dinner, this happens twice a year.

"Hey I come from Maddie's house" I let them know.

"Hi, yes we know. Her mom told me when we were talking on the phone. How was the sunset today?" my mom asks me and I answer the same thing I always answer. "As always, amazing."

Then I go to my room and put on some comfortable clothes.

I go back to the living room and sit down next to mom in the sofa. I glance at the tv to see what she is watching, but of course she's watching Friends. That's pretty much the only thing she watches on the tv.

"Dinner's ready!" shouts dad. I'm starving and honestly what dad cooks usually is really good.

My brother comes and sits down next to me.

When the four of us are ready to eat, I start devouring the chicken. It's so good, and dad looks at me smiling.

"You really like when I cook this huh?" he says. I just nod because I've got food in my mouth and can't talk.

When we finish dinner, I say goodnight to everyone and go to my room. I want to play the piano a little bit and then I'll read. Very few people know that I love reading because usually people make fun of the ones who read, but in my bedroom I read and read. My parents have influenced me to read, and I'm so happy about that because when I read I forget about everything else, just like when I play the piano or listen to music.

After playing a little bit the piano, I read and when I'm falling asleep I close the book, switch off the light and then I fall asleep.