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For Valentine's Day, I woke up at 9 and I look over and there was a heart-shaped
object and I opened it up and inside there were chocolates, and next to
it, there was a teddy bear and outside my door, there were two balloons.
And there was a rose on my desk and a card. And then for my birthday,
he wrapped a CD up and left it on my bed. He likes to surprise me a lot.
And he knows that I collect teddy bears so he's gotten me two teddy bears.
We just like dance at parties. When we're in a fight, when we're done,
he sends a little note. We will be like holding hands and then he'll let
go and then I'll have a note in my hand and it will say something. That's
what happened last night. He's really sweet about things and he doesn't
like it when we're in fights and he tries to resolve it really well.
Sometimes I want to tell my mom stuff but like I don't. Like I want to
tell her what I did with Ricky last year but I know she would never let
me go to any parties again and never let me do anything. I mean, last
year, we did a lot more stuff because it was new to go out with someone.
And it was really cool. And we would play Spin the Bottle and Suck and
Blow and Truth or Dare a lot more. And this year, we will just cuddle
up and watch a movie. I think [adults] should know that we are not 5 years
old anymore and we don't need someone to come down every 5 minutes to
check on us, and that we're OK on our own. We're not dumb, at least most
of us, and we wouldn't do anything that was like dumb that we should wait
for.
My group of friends, we all have like bootleg
jeans—not like really dark, not like really light—just like
the regular blue jeans. And we mostly wear just black and brown belts
with silver on them. We wear our hair in buns—not like full ponytails
but not like a straight out bun—just a little hanging down stuff.
When we wear our hair down, we wear it usually flipped out. We pretty
much shop at the same places, just like J. Crew and Gap and Banana.
When I go shopping and when I see myself in stuff, I like when I look
skinny in it and it doesn't look puffy and make me look fat. I kind of
like it when it's tight but not when it's too tight, when you look like
a slut. I like shoes when they make your legs look skinny, and when they
make you look tall, and when just the right amount of your toes show.
And you buy like a dress and it's just the right length, and just like
how it reflects off your eyes, or your hair or whatever, like your features.
Looking good is important when you're 13.
Like I know I have been watching my weight a lot lately and we put on
makeup to fit in and to be better-looking, not so we can have more friends,
but for guys basically. Looking good and having the right clothes is not
as important as being a good friend and being true to your friends, but
like, if you wore something sleazy to school once, people might think
you were really weird and if you kept doing it, you would probably start
losing friends 'cause no one wants to have a sleazeball on their hands.
from
Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture: Faculty Guide
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
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