Tomorrow is our first day of junior year, and we are all really nervous. We were rescued in the middle of June, so we spent the rest of summer vacation together, and now we will have to face the real world and everyone at school.
I knew everyone else was scared, but I think I was more so than everyone else. I was petrified to go back to the life I had lived for the past sixteen years.
I never realized how quickly someone could change until the island.
While I was there, I wasn't just Taylor, the popular homecoming queen. I could just be me, and by the end, I realized that was enough.
I didn't need all my fancy clothes or all my makeup. The island made me realize that my true friends would still love me even without it all, but the problem was, what happens if they don't?
I know that means they were never really my friends, but these were the people I had grown up with.
Could it be possible that a group of kids who were so different from one another could be more accepting and loving than the kids I had known forever?
I guess we'll see on Monday. I avoided my old friends for the majority of summer vacation because I didn't want to have to explain myself.
I didn't want to have to tell them what happened on the island. I didn't want to have to tell them why I didn't care if my shoes matched my purse, and I didn't want to have to tell them why I strong enough not to depend on them for every decision I made.
With the others, none of that stuff mattered, and when we talked about the island, it was always happy. I guess all the bad stuff that happened didn't really matter anymore.
We all almost died at different points, but that didn't matter. We all remembered who saved us and who pulled us through.
My other friends wouldn't understand, but then again, I didn't even give them a chance. Tomorrow, there would be true test, but I didn't even know what I was going to do. would I give into my old friends, or would I stay with the people I had been with all summer?
I guess tomorrow isn't the true test of my friends; it's the test of me. I'm ok with that. I can handle tough situations now, but what scares me is, what if I made the wrong choice?