The Rules Of Blending

My friends and I have been best friends since the beginning. We've been there together through, preschool, elementary school and middle school and now we're off to high school. But of course, just like in the movies, there are cliques. First you have the jocks, the nerds, the cheerleaders, the band-geeks, the wannabes, the drama-freaks, the "princesses"...and us.

Everyone in high school is either trying to find love, become popular, pass their grade, lose their virginity, become homecoming queen, or find out who they are and what they want to do in life.

But we don't want to become popular or fall in love, okay well maybe I want to fall in love but the point is, we just want to survive the year. You know, we want to just be able to get through it and say "We did it!"

But it's not going to be that easy and we know that. There's probably going to be a lot of heartbreaks, loss, breakups, bad grades, lies, secrets, happiness, new jobs, joy, homecoming, traveling, new boyfriends, new girlfriends, new friends, new traditions, first kisses, first-everythings, and... our first high-school sleepover.

We're all going to do a good amount of struggling this year. But at least we'll be able to struggle together because that's what best friends do.

Like I said, we just want to blend in with the crowd and get through the year.

But why blend in, when you can stand out?