It all started around that time, if I remember correctly.

 

 

It was the end of summer in Del Sol Valley, the town where I was born.

I grew up in an average family, with loving parents and 4 brothers and sisters. We were far from rich, but we got by by not being picky. This was my childhood home.

 

 

I was a student and that day I had to go back to work. As someone who has always loved basking in the sun, I wasn't thrilled, but I had to be... Anyway, I had other things to my mind.

 

 

I was in awe of this gorgeous dress, which I'd bought a week before with all my hard-earned summer savings, and thought it really made me look my best! 
Well, obviously I wasn't going out like that! But still, this dress was made for me!

Well, it was time to go!

 

 

Outside my place of study, I met up with my old friends.

 

 

Carmen, very proud of her Latin origins and an incredible cook! I've never eaten better food than hers!

 

 

And Barbara-Belle ( alias BB ), always serious and not at all humorous, but really kind and altruistic. Passionate about writing and reading.

 

 

The three of us have been friends since we were little and we've come a long way together, even though we're quite different from each other. Me? I was already a fashion and cosmetics fan. I used to spend summers doing odd jobs to buy clothes and make-up that I wouldn't have been able to afford otherwise.

 

I've always liked to be noticed, to stand out from the crowd, to be watched. And yet, when I looked at the other students...

 

 

 

 

I realised that I was exactly like them: with new clothes, beautiful inexpensive jewellery and a desire to look pretty so that people would see me...

I even had a crush on Dorian, the handsome guy who made all the girls melt, what originality...

 

 

I don't know why it struck me so clearly that day, looking at all those people, but I realised that I was insipid... Nothing more than a girl among others, like a blade of grass on a huge lawn... I didn't want to give up my passions, but I wanted to be someone else at that moment...

 

 

what's wrong with me?...