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 As a kid, my view of high school was very different from how it actually is now. In the earlier 2000’s high school looked fun to me. In Disney Channel original movies, the high
schoolers would have insanely long passing times, lockers, crazy neck to neck football/basketball games, “the popular” table, a generic chess club, open house parties, detentions thrown out freely, non existent school work load, and school dances that actually looked enjoyable. 

In High School Musical Three, there's a music number where everyone is getting ready for prom and it was just insanely fascinating (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9K3sBUwQzU). No matter what movie, the prom looked like the best part. Everyone had a date, and their dresses were big and colorful. I was so excited for my day to come to wear a long dress like that. But I still haven’t. And I never got that date either.

Prom got cancelled this year but some moms (including mine) got together to make masked up parent sponsored prom. Yesterday, I finally got a dress and this isn’t how I pictured it. For something to make me feel pretty and look happy in, I’ve never wanted to tear something off. Nothing that I was envisioning kept happening.

To the right of my house was a family just like mine. Average mom, dad, and two girls just like my sister and I. They were in high school and our babysitters. I remember when they went to prom. They had dates that were man sized, colorful dresses, and they didn’t take pictures seriously because there was no social media/standards. Once in a blue moon they would throw a party when the parents were out of town. No ring doorbells and back then people weren’t soft about noise. They were living what I always pictured.

Now I realize how ugly the world is today. One of the girls got killed in a seven car accident by a monster who should’ve never been on the road. The average father gained a drinking problem in his grievance. The parents got divorced. Their house got sold. Some rich rando tore down the house and is now building two mega houses in its place. And now my neighborhood that was filled with ranches with big backyards where people were always outside is a place for houses to get bought and destroyed.

Finally, here I am living my high school nightmare alone while my sister is up at school looking out the window at a brick wall that used to be a plot of grass where I would play outside with my sister and neighbors. And next year I will come to Troy to realize this is a place I visit rather than a place I call home. Fuck prom, I am ready to grow up and live in a world where sadly no where is safe. This isn’t a Disney movie.


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