What is highschool?

Drama & fights. Laugh & tears. Breakups & makeups. It's rushing to grow up, then realizing you want your innocence.

It's hurting over someone else.
It's getting drunk and having your bestfriend hold your hair back as you puke, then re-capping your night the next morning.
It's jealous and envy, rumors & gossip.
It's wannabe sluts & church girls.
It's getting knocked over again & again to the point where you question you should stay down.
It's disappointments and lies.
It's those night when you WANT to be alone but you don't want to FEEL alone.
It's those knots in your stomache that make you want to cry
A fake smile forced upon your face for so long, people actually believe you're happy.
It's getting backstabbed & feeling betrayed.
It's hearing lie after lie so you can learn to trust anyone but yourself
It's tears on your cheeks that you want to be wiped by one person, the person who made you cry in the first place.
It's growing up, meeting new people.
It's moving on in time, lots & lots of time.
It's whising bad things onto people out of anger, it's hope for a happy future and wishing on 11:11
It's learning and discovering new things.
It's hurting but still trying.
It's learning from the past mistakes & it's laughing over someone you once cried over.
It's getting stronger, becoming independent.
It's seeing you can & happy for your own.

So, What is highschool?

It's realization that you're so young, carefree & having fun. A future on your feet. So maybe it's hurt but that's life. If things always went the way we wanted them to, we'd never appreciate them. Don't listen to everything you hear & take chances, even if it risks getting hurt. Smile & mean it because in 30 years from now you're going to look back on those years you rushed throught & all you want is highschool.

---Alyssa Russo.