Chapter 53: Fifteen Candles

Chapter 53: Fifteen Candles

Life is made up of choices, people, and circumstances that shape you as a person.

Maturity doesn’t come with age, but it comes with experience and reflection through the struggle of living through it all.

I just learned it a few months ago when I was looking for myself while trying to get a boy to like me back. Among all the things I’ve gone through such as keeping dark secrets about sneaky affairs, writing for the school paper, explaining my painting in front of everyone, reuniting with the friends, cheating on the most popular girl in school, and dealing with the monsters, I mean brothers, in my life-I can’t wish for anything anymore at this time of my life: I promised myself that I would stop chasing for things that aren’t meant to be.