What a lot of things that have happened and will happen within these few weeks.

Three days ago...

I've quarreled with all those that I've considered friends, and I now do not consider one of the three a friend. It may have been a small matter, but it showed me more than I have wanted to see. I have taken these ugly truths into my stride, or I have tried to.

One was a truly poisonous person. I perhaps should have seen and learned from what had happened two years before, when she broke up with the person she had considered a friend. I let myself be blinded by her, but it will not happen again. I will not be merely a follower. The person she broke up with over some trivial reason was and still is being ostracized. She still bears a grudge against that person, from what I've learned. I may not be the most forgiving person, but I strictly do not believe that the person needs to have this sort of punishment after two years.  I don't consider her my friend.

Another was a classmate and close friend who exploded at me for no reason. After we had quarreled I found out that she had confided all the problems in our friendship to everyone but me. I've made it very clear to her, " If you have a problem with me, say it to my face." But I guess she didn't take it to heart. We managed to repair things, so it was ok. For now.

The last one was the one that hurt the most. She was my closet friend, closer than even my sisters. She was sadly, one of the "casualties" of my quarrel with the first person. To her, my apologies.

Today...
I got my Harry Potter book at 11 this morning, and I finished it at 7:03 this evening. I sat through it without eating lunch, without break. I now have an irritating neck ache to prove it.

But it was all worth it. That's all I'm going to say, because I hate spoilers, and I won't deny people the same sense of anticipation that I had, just because I was faster. So go ahead and enjoy it!

Four days later...

It'll be my birthday, I don't know what I'll do, seeing as I've school to go to and study...

But I'll be sixteen. That's big. Sixteen. I know that ten years ago, I would never envision myself being here, at this point.

My six year old self would have never thought that she'd stumble and never get near to the school she had always dreamed about. My six year old self would have never imagined that her daddy would get leukemia.

Yes, I sound so old. But wow. I've come so far, and I'll go even further, I know. Thanks to all my friends, mentors,family and enemies.  I'd never have walked this far without the first steps that you made me take.