As a little girl I would curl up in my bed at the corner of my room waiting and hoping for my mother to come into the room and read me one of my all time favorite fairy tales, Beauty and the Beast, the story of a girl who was unlike the rest in her village. I felt like I could relate to her wanting to find a place in the world that she belonged in. All she wanted was someone who could accept her despite her different personality traits. After her father gets lost in the woods trying to get to an inventing event and ends up in the prison of the beast, she takes his place leaving the beast bewildered.

You know the rest of the story, and if you don't, well shame on you.

Yes she fell in love with the beast, and they lived happily ever after. I used to believe that and then I grew up and faced the harsh reality and that fairy tales do not exist. It's sad but true, that's at there is to it. Going to high school in small town has it's perks with the small group of friends, but the real downer to it is when you start dating, EVERYONE knows who you're with and what you're doing with them. I didn't want to follow the bandwagon because I was still under the impression that fairy tales didn't exist and no one in high sh