The Coffee Shop

Follow this story of a teenager and their struggle to find their self in the mess of life.

Dear Reader, I Volunteer at the afterschool program for kids who are in middle school and elementary. The kids go there after school if their parents work and they can’t go home. I go every Tuesday and Thursday with my friends to help them with their homework, but on Thursday when I went I was going to play on the Wii and I had a water that I set on the table where the TV sits and the girl that was helping pick out a game we wanted to play, stole my water and stuck the cap in her mouth. I hadn’t opened it or anything but I still wasn’t going to take it from her, that’s just gross.

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader, Sorry, it’s been awhile since I last updated. Anyway, I’m currently in English now and I’m supposed to be doing a word search because I’m done with my essay, but I don’t know where the stack is and I don’t want to look like an idiot trying to find it so I’m writing to you! We had to write an essay based on a prompt we picked from the paper he gave us. I picked one about comparing small towns and big cities. I chose the small towns side of the argument. Btw, me and my “boyfriend” broke up a couple of days ago (by that I mean like... saturday) I broke up with him, and honestly I don’t know what happened but I’m pretty sure I’m polyamorous. :\ I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. I’m reading this book called “Love letters to the Dead” . It's awesome so far, it’s about a girl who lost her sister in some kind of accident and she is trying to figure out who she is and who she wants to be. She kind of reminds me of myself because even though I know what my plans for the future are, I still don’t know who I am right now. In the book Laurel writes to dead hollywood stars and singers from her sisters favorite bands. I just listened to a little bit of them and her sister had some pretty good taste in music. Anyway, I’m gonna go. Bye!

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader, You know what, I’m getting used to being the private maid in my household. What I mean by that is that when I’m at home, I clean most of my end of the house and then I do laundry and dishes. But I do that without being told to do them. If you’re wondering what that means, it means that my brother and sister have to be told multiple times before getting threatened to actually do them. When I clean the house it’s because I’m bored and don’t have anything I want to do. The reason why I’m the “Private Maid” is because no one ever notices when I do it, I mean, I know my mom watches me do it but she still never says anything unless she’s giving me more work. By the way, sorry for not posting yesterday I was working around my house.

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader, Heh. Sorry for not posting yesterday, I’ve been a bit busy. I also haven't been going to school because we’re on break, so I don’t have any good stories to tell. Anyway, if you’re wondering how my family dinner went, it went ok. I don't really fit in with them and my little cousin wasn’t there, but we did play a couple fun games so it was ok. Anyway I just wanted to apologize for not updating. Bye!

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader, So, it is currently 4:27 A.M. and I have not slept in twenty four hours. I have been watching Tik Tok and texting anyone who is awake, but they have all gone to bed and I’ve become bored of Tik Tok. So, it was either lay here and stare at the ceiling or get on my computer or any of the other three electronics laying around in my bed, and I guess you can probably figure out what option I chose. I’m surprisingly not tired for someone running on less than an hour of sleep, not to mention the thanksgiving dinner I just remembered I have today. Heh, I don’t like most of my family so this is going to go great. I am excited to see my little cousin. OH!! He’s so cute!! I can just see his face! Anyway, I know why I can’t sleep tonight. It’s because I haven’t been very good at taking my melatonin lately, and by time I realized I forgot to take it today it was already midnight so there really wasn’t a point in taking them. Well, I’ll update you later on how the dinner goes. Bye!

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader, I changed my mind about my plan after college. I plan to go to Alaska and live in a secluded cabin with my boyfriend, and I think I’m going to take up writing for an occupation, but we’ll see where that goes. You may be wondering, ”When did you get a boyfriend?” Hehe we started talking on Sunday, he is the best thing that has happened to me in a very long time. Actually, I haven’t been this happy in over two years, since before my toxic ex. I swear this man is straight out of a book. Literally checks off ALL the boxes on the perfect boyfriend list, but he has everything I never knew I wanted in a boyfriend. He may be a couple of years older than me but… I don’t care. Well, have fun today!! Don’t forget to eat today!

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader, I have been thinking lately( that never really goes well for me), about what I want to do after highschool. I think I want to go to college. I think I want to major in education, mathematics specifically, or nursing. Or both. I don’t really care cause my plan for after college is to live a good life and then off myself when I turn 35. Why 35? I don’t know I apparently don’t want to live after that. Unless I find a significant other, then I might consider staying a while longer. The funny thing is that I had almost this exact conversation with a girl in my class. Turns out my thoughts aren’t as weird as I thought they were, and now she knows more about me than any of my actual friends, which isn’t as weird as it seems, I have more in common with a person I barely know than my actual friends. I think that’s probably got something to do with the fact that I find it easier to talk to people when I don’t know them very well.

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader, I just spent ten minutes being a therapist to a girl I don’t even like. You might be asking yourself, ”Why do it if you don’t like her?” Well, because she was crying and I don’t like it when people cry. She also said she was going to off herself and I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone. What I mean is, the thought of thinking that death is better than life is a thought I have a lot. Not because I’m depressed or anything (that's for a different reason) it’s just that the thought of dying is fascinating to me. We are getting side-tracked, this is about my classmate not me. Anyway, the reason she was upset was because her mom told her she couldn’t wear the pants she was wearing, (they were just green joggers for the gym, I think) but she forgot her other pants. She was also crying because she lost some money she needed. Then she said no one liked her or cared about her, so I told her that her dad loves her, I know that because her dad is my art teacher and he talks about her all the time. Anyway, I just thought that was weird.

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader,
Why is it that, even in a crowd of my friends, I still feel extremely lonely? Yesterday, at lunch, I was sitting with my brother’s ex-girlfriend. She’s my friend because she was mad at my brother, but that’s not important. What is important is that I still feel lonely even when sitting with her and her friends.It’s not that they aren’t fun, It’s just that they wear me out. It’s like I can feel the social activity radiating off them. Not that that’s a bad thing, I just get really sick to my stomach around a lot of people. That is also why I like writing better than talking or singing( by myself). It’s because I don’t like a lot of attention, because at home I’m treated like I don’t exist for any reason other than to do work. I’m at school right now and in the words of all teenagers “it sucks” but not because it’s school, just because I don’t like the people here. Anyway, I guess I have to go now, my teacher is starting class, so BYEEE!!!!

Sincerely yours, Author

Dear Reader,
Why can I not sleep?... Better question, why don’t I want to sleep?... The answer is I don’t really know, I mean, I know why I don’t want to sleep. It’s because I don’t want to not have a nightmare. I know that sounds weird but it’s true, I like to be woken up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. Why? Well, because I think sleep is pointless. You’re probably thinking,” But Author, why do you think sleep is pointless? Isn’t it important?” Well, yes and no. It's important for most people, yes. For me it’s just kind of… there, you know? I’ve been days without sleep, but that’s because I have insomnia. I do take melatonin gummies for it, which did help for a while but once I got a little over half way through the bottle, they just stopped helping as much and if anything made the problem worse. And I’m not saying that they won’t work better for someone else, I’m just saying they aren’t very helpful to me in particular. Whelp! That’s all I wanted to say today!(It's 1:03 A.M.) Have a good day!

Sincerely yours, Author