“Kay!! Are you ready yet?!” I smiled to myself as I heard my best friend’s voice from the living room.

Man she can be loud when she wants to be. I thought to myself as I looked in the mirror at my reflection. The only word to fit my appearance was plain. I knew I wasn’t ugly but I didn’t believe that I was anything more than average. My brown hair hung down to maybe an inch below my shoulders, curling outward at the bottom on one side and inward on the other side. The golden blonde highlights that I had convinced my mom to buy me made my hair look not as… blah I guess. Even though I hardly ever had to do anything with my hair, it was pushed away from my face with a thin black headband showing off my glasses- framed brown eyes. Since my eyes were my favorite feature, when I wore make up I only used it on my eyes. Sage had done up my eyes with black eyeliner with forest green color eye shadow. My eyes moved downward to the rest of my physical appearance. I was wearing a pair of dark blue jean shorts and a thin black tank top with my new favorite shirt that Katie had bought me, blue with tiny guitars all over it with sleeves that went almost to my elbows. I had picked it out because it was out of the normal and not something people would think I would wear but it was so much cuter than the one with stars on it. My white dance shoes were on my feet. I had tried cleaning them to make them look actually white but I hadn’t succeeded. Finally deeming myself good enough, I left the bathroom and headed to the living room when Sage and her family were waiting for me.

“Finally! Geez, did you fall in or something?” She asked, jokingly.

“No, just making sure I don’t look like the train wreck that I feel like.” I replied, smiling slightly.

“You look fine and you’re going to be fine during this whole trip. No thinking about Alex during this trip. No being depressed. Got that?” She said, smiling but her eyes told me she was serious.