The Rest Is Still Unwritten

by writerchick786

Dreams were made into realities, friendships were gained and lost. As the girls enter a new stage in life, they will discover happiness, grief and strength as they never have before. They will find out that they must have faith in each other to survive.

1. Where Your Book Begins

Kaylie Cruz let her warm chocolate brown eyes softly gaze around the fuchsia painted walls (why had she ever painted her walls such a bright color?) with the black stenciled designs on the wall (her mother's addition). She ran a hand down the soft pink, black, and white covering of her four poster bed and remembered sobbing her eyes out into the silk and cashmere blend comforter when she thought she was not going to be able to compete at World's. Her gaze fell to the brown leather bound notebook, distinctly remembering herself tearing out her food diary pages and writing "My name is Kaylie Cruz and I am anorexic" and finally coming to terms with her disorder.

The far wall was her special, favorite part of her bedroom, what her father had dubbed "The Achievement Wall". It was even better than the plush, queen-sized bed with the brass headboard and piles of thick, soft bedding and pillows.

She had hung representations of the most important things in her life. In the center of the wall was a family picture of her mother, father, her older brother Leo and her. She had it developed in black and white, blown up to the size of a small poster, and framed in a black frame.

On one corner of the wall, going from top to bottom, was a row of her friends. The smiling faces of Lauren Tanner, Payson Keeler, Emily Kmetko, and Kelly Parker jumped out at her, however there were other Rock girls she didn't see much anymore and the other World and Olympic team members. She had left a space in the middle of the framed 5x8 pictures and framed an old ad campaign, from the very early days, and hung it that space. An ad for Elite Gymnast leotards, with little ten-year-old Kaylie Cruz smiling brightly doing the splits on the beam.

The rest of the wall was very nostalgic as well. A copy of her learner's permit, a corsage from Payson's prom, her acceptance letter into NYU, and her medals from the various meets and events, the most important of which were the medals from the Rock meet against China, Worlds and the 2012 Olympics as well as numerous pictures of important days or just pictures that were important to her were hung up neatly on her wall.

She sure was going to miss this room.