Sometimes when life gets normal you get so used to it change is hard. That's what I had to go through. My name is Bethany and I'm 16 years old. I lived with my parents John and Saphrina. They were kinda cool and let me do whatever I wanted to. Sometimes I would sneak into the movie theatres across the street.

My parents were great. When I was little they would sing me to sleep. They would also spoil me. But they didn't spoil me into an snotty white girl. I'm very different from a lot of people in my life. Sometimes I would just randomly sing out loud. Or I would burst into a random dance of excitement. I'm pretty sure some people thought i was crazy, but I was just being me.

My friends Bree and David were my best friends.

I met them at the beginning of middle school. We were the greatest trio in school. We were friends with everyone no matter if they were rich or poor. It was like that through out high school. We didn't care about the color of someone's skin. We liked everyone for the way they were.

I also got my first crush in high school. His name was James Milan. He was so cool. He would make everyone laugh and he was just an amazing dude. We were great friends. I didn't know what would have happened if I were to tell him how I felt. So I never told him.

Every weekend we would go somewhere together. Sometimes we would go to amusement parks and sometimes to the beech. We had so much fun together. Sometimes we were really stupid. I remember the time that we snuck into Mr. Riley's shop to steal a few margaritas. We almost got caught.

Our town was the most peaceful in the entire state of California. Our town, Carpinteria, was located on the coast. The sunset there was the greatest. The waves would look like they turned the prettiest colour of gold. And when there were clouds in the sky they would turn a beautiful pink.

Even though everything was great things change. Sometimes I wish things hadn't changed but change is inevitable. It could be good, it could be bad. In this case change was bad. Very bad.