Life used to be so simple, Stef, and I guess with all the newness I have lost a bit of my footing. I’ve never been so, well, so like . . . AHHHH . . . have I? You’ve known me forever. (Oh my god, I just had a flashback of us playin’ Bedroom-A-Class in my room. ’Member? We would line up our Cabbage Patches and give them each a pencil and paper, and we would be the teachers. I was Ms. Bugg, you were Ms. Butler. Bedroom-A-Class. Theresa Louise and Michelle Elaine were star pupils!) Oh, my Steffed Animal! I’m sorry if I’ve been not me-ish.
Can we just literally start our Senior year over? Let’s definitely do what you said and set a new date with me, you, and Stacey. I will white-out any obligations in my Month-At-A-Glance for that! Let’s all just move on and grow up! My god. It’s this town, I’m certain of it. Our town just brings up so much stuff for all of us. It’s like if you took us all out of this town and put us in the city we would all love each other and just be chill ’cuz we were walkin’ everywhere and takin’ the train and LIVING! When you’re not LIVING it’s hard to LIVE, you know. Do you know what I mean?
Underneath the extreme chaos of Senior year, my life is in a really good place right now. Only thing that was out of order was my friendship with you. And I take responsibility for that. Qwe officially move on? Oo, I like Qwe (Can we) . . . should we add it to our secret dictionary?
Love you more than life.
LIVES, LOVES, LAUGHS,
Me . . . Tara
T Bag—
What is up, Beautiful? I was getting pizza with Tzoug and Dube and I wished you were there, sitting next to me. Why? ’Cuz you’re my girl, and I love when you sit next to me when I’m eating pizza.
Good luck with Anne Frank (and beans).
C.P.C.
Christopher!!!
Anne Frank (and beans)? How dare you make jokes about a girl hiding in an attic to escape the Nazis. Anne was a girl, much like me, who saw the best in her town but had to hide away from the evil people. Oh, how I long to be Anne Frank.
I’m wearin’ a wig at my audition tomorrow. It’s brown and like shoulder length. I know, a wicked far cry from my long blond tresses but hey, an actress of my caliber transforms for proper roles.
And how are you, Mr. Mister? If my eyes weren’t deceivin’ me I coulda sworn I saw Kathy Connery squeezin’ your ass after homeroom. True or false?
Sluts like Kathy have no boundaries, Chris. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Kath and we have tons of history, but she is a slut and she loves a good hockey ass, which you have. So . . . spill the beans, and don’t say “Anne Frank” just ’cuz I said “beans.”
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo,
Anne Frank Maureen Murphy
T,
You caught us. Yeah, Kathy grabbed my ass. She said she was squeezin’ all the Varsity Hockey bums to make an educated ASS-essment of whose was the best. I won!!!! You know Kathy. She loves to flirt. She’s harmless. I’d never touch her anyway . . . why? ’Cuz I got you.
C.P.C.
Hello my co-star,
Matt! Today has got to be the greatest day of my life! God dammit, I’m ANNE FRIGGIN’ FRANK!
What a shame that Joy Rebecca Bernstein opted out of auditions. I was hopin’ for some competition, but maybe she just got worried that I had the part locked. Joy would be a good Anne Frank if this were a junior high production, but it’s the big leagues. And to think, you are playin’ the sweet role of Peter. Anne’s love interest. So many things can happen in a stuffy attic, Matt. So many private things. Q believe we have two whole months together? I am simply overcome with happiness.
And because I got the lead role, as promised I’m gonna pick you up at the bottom of your street and take you to Camel Lot. Oh, Matt, our future is bright.
Always,
Your Anne Frank
P.S. Not that I care, but why did Joy not audition? Seems very unlike her.
Tara,
Congratulations!!!! I am so happy for you. And for us. We are gonna have the best time doing this play together.
You didn’t hear about Joy? Oh. I thought everyone knew. She couldn’t audition for The Diary of Anne Frank because she got the role of Eponine in a regional production of Les Misérables. She starts rehearsals today, actually. I guess some Les Miz scouts came to our production of Grease and were blown away by Joy as Sandy, so they offered her Eponine. Offered!!!!! She didn’t even have to audition. There’s talk of her moving to the Broadway production after her run ends. Crazy . . .
I will meet you at the bottom of my street tonight. What time?
Your Matt
Oh, hey Matt,
Yeah, tonight’s not gonna be good anymore to go to Camel Lot. I forgot I have to hang out with Christopher. He is my boyfriend, so I guess he is priority.
Joy is playing Eponine in Les Misérables? You do know that that is my number-one dream role of all time, right? Was this a master plan, Matt? Did you encourage this? I literally can’t even believe this, Matt. I am heartbroken right now. You heard me sing “On My Own” at Grease auditions. You know how good I am at it. I HATE THIS TOWN!!!!!
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