Adolescence-Personal Narrative

The lights are blinding, as she opens up her eyes to this new world. Her ears hear familiar voices that can now be paired to faces she had never seen before this moment. What a wonderful moment this is. She does not quite fully comprehend what is going on, or who these individuals are that surround her, but she has a strange sense of being alive. Quickly this sense dissipates. Hurried hands move her from person to person. The new strange entity, whose arms she has landed in, sounds most familiar. The entity looks upon her, in an admiring way. Strange expressions show on its face. It seems to go through all the signs of grief within seconds, and then a sudden burst of tears begin to flow from its eyes. She does not understand what is going on. She is new to this world, these entities are new, these touches are new, …show more content…
I had blossomed into something new by freshman year and I loved it. Most of my friends and I all had filled out in areas we did not expect. We now had boobs, hips, and thighs. Quite a deadly combination for a highschool girl to possess. We learned how to use our new attributes to our advantage rather quickly. Being thought of as innocent and fragile worked to our advantage. We were able to get away with a lot of things that our guy friends would not have been able to. There were a couple times in highschool that I got pulled over and cried to avoid a ticket. There were times my friends and I would get free food or gifts just because we were “cute”. Even my guy friends began to treat me differently. They became more flirty and attentive, but I always turned them down. Looking back on it now, I can see how we were just playing the roles we were taught. My guy friends became the flirtatious men and us the innocent seeming girls they were to chase. We were taught that good girls ignore the chasing boys and so we tried. We tried the best we