I push my glasses back as I read the paper, in front of me. Gabriela sits next to me, and I smile at her, we just recently became friends, she started sitting next to me in the class, and somehow we started talking, I really don't know how or when we started being friends, we are just friends and it feels like I have known her forever. Her black hair is back in a ponytail, and her bright brown eyes scan the paper in my hands.
"What is that?" she takes it from my hands, and I sigh.
"My Biology homework, I don't understand anything," I say taking my glasses off and rubbing my eyes.
"I'm sorry, can't help you with that" I smile at her and grab the paper and put it inside my folder. I will have to go to either my dad or my older brother. Both of them are doctors, they are genius when it comes to science and all that crap, those genes were not passed on to me, anything that has to do with science, history, it's not for me.
It's like I'm talking to a wall, I don't understand anything, it just doesn't make sense to me. I'm more on the creative side, I enjoy painting, pictures, things that don't require for me to talk. Ways I can express how I feel, without the need to use my voice. I'm the only girl at the house, I live with my dad, and brothers, my mom, well she left us about 15 years ago, I don't remember much of her, but from what my dad and brothers say I look like her. The exact replica, Mike says all the time, it was hard growing up with only boys, especially when things start changing with my body and periods started happening my only guide was the internet, until I was 13 and Daniela came around, Mike's soon to be the wife she adopted me as her sister. Took me on dates, bought me clothes and she became that older sister that I desperately needed, in a few months they will get married and I can't believe after 8 years they will finally get married, they meet in high school and decided to not get married until Mike was done with Medic School.
I'm 21 right now, I'm at NYU and I'm studying photography and cinematography, two more years and I will be out and I can't wait. It is something about videos and pictures that makes me incredibly happy, you can express and say so much through a moment. There are moments that can't be recreated, that's when the videos and pictures come in to be able to relive that experience. The professor finally comes in, and everyone is quick to sit down and put the phones away, a slide show begins after a quick greeting and the rest of the class goes by smoothly.
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The Photographer
RomanceWhen Mia needs a model for her photography class, having to face reality, she can't let anxiety control her every movement, who she is and who she is not. After building up the courage she asks Daniel and to her surprise, he accepts the challenge o...
