The Missing Piece

by Kiersten Modglin

Take school, for instance. No matter where you go, what grade you’re in, or who you are, you’ll always find the same kids. There are the kids who everyone secretly wants to be, the ones who are members of the country club, whose fathers could buy them a whole city if they wanted to; the people with their designer clothes, beautiful faces and perfect lives. There are the people who honestly don’t care about anything; the ones who are comfortable with themselves, usually for extremely unobvious reasons. There are the kids who can quote whole books, who can answer any question correctly. And then, there are the kids who just fade into the background, the kids who you’ll look back at in your yearbook in five years and not remember them at all.

If you lie to yourself long enough, sometimes it becomes real.