Dear Lauren,

My blisters have blisters. I've been doing martial arts for 3 years now, and I don't think my feet will ever get used to the pain pivoting brings in. It's almost as bad as swim, and there was a lot of blood involved in that.

Yesterday I went to my neighbor's birthday party and then proceeded to hang out with his sister. I forgot how rude she was though. When I first went over, I tried making conversation by telling her all these things in sorta long stories. Oh, how I would regret that.

For the rest of the night, whenever I said something that sounded interesting, at least to me, she'd be all, "Orchid, stop telling us all these stories." Or for instance, we were playing never have I ever with her friend that came other, and when it got to my turn, I did the first thing that came to mind. I said something about getting in a fight with a sub. You remember that?

Well, I had told her earlier, and she was all like, "Ugh, yes, we all know how your such a baddie for getting in a fight with a sub."

I wasn't going to tell the story again anyways, so I just said, "Yeah, well, I just really hate her."

She glared at me. "I know, we all do. Like that Russian lady." She laughed about it and started to talk about how horrible she was.

Obviously, I tried to defend the sub because she was actually really nice and doesn't make us do any work. "She's Turkish, not Russian."

"You don't think I know that?" she asked rudely. "We just call her Russian because we want to."

"She's really nice. You shouldn't say stuff like that."

"Teacher's pet!" she whispered loudly to her friend.

I'm so fed up with her right now. Even when I'm tired and don't want to jump on the trampoline with her, she'll say something like, "I'm NoT lIkE tHe OtHeR gIrLs BeCaUsE i WaNt To LiE dOwN." And then, right in front of her friend, she'll say, "Yeah, I was such a brat back then. Sorry I made you cry!" The slight smile on her face when she said that infuriated me.

I don't know what to do anymore. There's so much more stuff I haven't told you. I'm just going to try and avoid her from now on.

There was something I say that made my day though. My brother showed me this because he knew I'd like it.

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That's Abbey Road in London in case you didn't know.

It's good to know that I can always depend on The Beatles when I'm in a funk. I'll have to remember to try to do a photo like that if I ever get to visit.

But it begs the question. Why does the UK get all the amazing bands like The Beatles, REM, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, etc.

Now if you excuse me, I have to go cry over homework which my mom promised my teacher that I'd turn in by tonight even though I'm in desperate need of a shower, have 3 separate dialectable journals, one paper assignment, and a project for social studies to finish, most of which I don't understand.

I think I might just go cry instead and say I tried.