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I Was The Invisible Girl With A Happy Life

Being the basic wallflower isn't as bad as you would think.

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I was never really the popular girl in high school. Yeah, people knew me, but I was QUIET—to the point where teachers knew me as "[my ex-boyfriends's name]'s girlfriend". Great, right? And it doesn't help that ALL my brothers, old and younger, play(ed) football. Which, ya know, means everyone knows them and wants to be them. But not me. Nobody wants to be the shy, socially awkward girl. But I'm OK with that.

I wasn't anything you'd look at twice. I didn't play sports. I wasn't the smartest. I was just there. I didn't go to parties. I didn't have a huge group of friends (that I talked to a lot). It was just me and a simple time in my life.

Nobody knew about any time I messed up. Nobody knew when I made a mistake. I was practically invisible and it was great. There was a lot of drama that happened in my high school and (other than an issue senior year), it didn't have anything to do with me.

I was, to put it frankly, a wallflower. It was amazing. And what made it even better? I had the best group of friends you could ever ask for. They weren't the kind of friends that my brothers had in school. Heck, my brothers made fun of me for my friend group. But that didn't bother me. I didn't have to worry about my friends talking behind my back, my boyfriends cheating on me with them, or anything like that.

Being invisible was great. I could be my own person without worrying about keeping my reputation up based on my brothers. I was me, myself, and I.

And being the wallflower of the family was amazing.

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