15 years

Prompt #21 Write a letter to the 10-year old child you had been.

Dear 10-year old me,
    What will happen in the next 15 years. Mom has two more daughters, these sisters are hard for you to connect with but you will try. You will go back to school and make many friends, (and enemies without even trying.) Some will stay, some will go, some will break your heart and they will never know. Some you will consider your best friend and they won't think the same way. You will have many, many friends put boyfriends and girlfriends before your friendship. But you will do the same when you have a boyfriend. You will be kissed before your married, you will have a baby before then too. You will cause so much mischief, and not realize what you've put your family through (until you're older). You will fall in love a lot, only a few of those boys will make you cry. Expect one of those boys to leave and never look back and expect the other to always be there as your friend. High school will take you in many different ways. You will constantly change who you are, trying to find yourself. You will cut all of your hair off and dye it every color, changing it ever two weeks. You will pierce your lip when a bunch of goofy teenage boys are playing outside your bedroom window. You will listen to Hanson and Backstreet Boys in middle school and then discover Blink 182. You will play broom hockey once, a stranger will buy you a pet mouse. You will love going to the army surplus store. You don't finish high school, but you really really wanted to, something you'll never get over. When you have your first baby you will have a son first. Even though you think you will only have daughters.

    One day you will see a boy playing in the courtyard of your high school. All the other girls will google over him too. You will walk a different way to the bus each day from then on just to watch him playing football with his friends. You will have a crush on him until your life ends (maybe even after). He will be your knight in shining armor, he will be your prince charming. He will sweep you off your feet, you will get married, and make four more beautiful babies. Life will be hard, but they're more than worth it and even in you darkest times you are not alone.

Love,

  Me