wake up you sleepyhead haul your hiney out of bed

Lying next to me is my best friend’s older brother, Hank. Time to get up, sleepyhead,” his mom calls. “Hank, Dad says you have a tee time in one hour. Why had I agreed to come here? What would make me throw caution to the wind and risk ruining a friendship? Mortified, I drop my head and cover my eyes with the sheet. Each blink offers a short snapshot of my surroundings. My contacts are dry, which makes them feel stiff and scratchy and my vision blurry. Gasping, I pull the sheet up to my chin, squint, and do a long blink. The blanket falls, exposing my bare breasts. Time to get up.” Hank’s mom, calling through the door, wakes me from my sleep.ĭisorientated, I sit up with a jerk. She gets her own love story (and we get to see her as not the mean girl) in the short story He’s the One. One more fun fact: Melinda is the mean girl in this book. But then I got the rights back and rearranged the books and it’s like Joey from Friends would say, “Its a moo point.” Why is Paisley’s story book1?”Īnd I was like, “Well, that’s that just how the publisher did it.” and I’d shrug awkwardly. But then I wrote Josies story and people were like, “Wait, Josie’s story comes before Paisley’s story. The Girl He Knows was actually the first book I’ve ever written and the first book in this series. Today’s first chapter is book 2 in the No Strings Series. These are things that show you that you don’t need to be on drugs to feel invincible.Welcome to Page Turning Wednesday. So does yelling your favorite song along with your best friend in the car with your best friend with hands intertwined. You can feel the whole world in a month and nothing after 2 years. You find your truest friends in your darkest hours.Ģ8. You only need yourself, but having people by your side trying to understand means a lot more than you might think.Ģ7. You aren’t any less of a person if it takes you longer to find a way to let go of what’s hurting your heart.Ģ6. If women used their words to build each other up instead of tearing each other down, our world would change drastically.Ģ5. Timing is never going to be perfect if you care about something enough, you’ll make the time. Try and find ways to feel that way all year long.Ģ3. Never underestimate the amount of joy the holiday season can bring you. Sometimes the way you think of someone isn’t the way they actually are.Ģ2. Swollen lips and sweaty “I want you’s” can make you feel again, but I don’t want to feel anything if it means having to sit there feeling like the wind is constantly being knocked out of me when he stops calling back.Ģ1. You find the most extraordinary things in the most ordinary places.Ģ0. Even if you’re scared it’ll burn your life to the ground. The view from the other side is spectacular.ġ8. Don’t let fear hold you back from what you want. Feel everything and let it hurt, but don’t go back to what broke you.ġ7. No matter how much pain someone is going through, you made them forget about it for a few seconds. Making someone smile and feel genuinely happy has the ability to warm your heart from the inside out. I have many homes, and it’s okay if one home doesn’t feel like home anymore.ġ5. Home is not always a place, but whatever you love with your whole heart. Later in life, you’ll be wishing you’d spent more time with them than on your Netflix account.ġ4. Spend more time with your parents doing things they enjoy. Sunsets always help the soul, showing that endings can be as beautiful as beginnings.ġ3. The minute you feel your happiness being dictated by someone else, take a break from them.ġ2. Getting close and letting someone in is scary as hell. Her prettiness doesn’t make your prettiness any less pretty.ġ0. Music has an indescribable ability to connect and heal. Do not judge character based on a mental illness.Ĩ. The autistic boy has the kindest heart, and the schizophrenic has the ability to put a smile on your face in seconds. The girl with anxiety has the deepest thoughts. Read a lot, it can only do good things for you.ħ. Highlight the things that you read that you find intriguing. Every person on this earth has something in their life or past worth collapsing on the ground in uncontrollable sobs over.ĥ. You honestly don’t know what skeletons people are hiding in their closets. Whether it be in the arms of a certain person or on the balcony of Barnes and Nobles with a cup of soup, find it and don’t let it go. You don’t want to look back and see that you only captured your memories with your camera lens and not within your mind and heart.ģ. Don’t let it take over your life, though. People change, and if they aren’t improving your life in some way, it’s okay to drop them.Ģ. The friends you have at the beginning of the year can completely change by the end of it.

Wake up you sleepyhead haul your hiney out of bed