FARM GIRLS.

I am starting a new book. Not one that I am reading, that would be too easy. One that I am writing. Along with (hopefully) the help of my friends. I had this idea of finishing it before my friends and I go to Italy next summer. I know it's a stretch but I would love to hear some feedback on if you would read the book if it ever got finished. Here is a sneak peak- A.K.A... the only part of it that I have written thus far. 

I told myself I would write it all down. I’d write it down on napkins, a computer, or journal… Somewhere, so I wouldn’t forget. Because life is a funny thing- as much as you cherish, and replay a memory in your head, one day you can find it slipping through you mind and there’s nothing you can do about it. In an instant the best part of your childhood can be gone.

            Friendships are like that too. As much as you try to hold on to them, as you grow up you are meant to drift apart. It’s only natural. Or, that’s what my family kept telling me. They told me that our friendship probably wouldn’t stand the test of high school. They told me that drugs, boys and drama would leak into our pure relationship like an oil spill, and there would be nothing I could do about it, but watch helplessly from the side. I found myself repeating these words of doom, letting sorrow and fear capture our hearts. What happens when I go to college and new friends and opportunities surround me? What happens when we begin to talk less and soon, our friendship is just like that distant memory that we find is slipping away.

That never happened to us, at least, not yet. We leave for Italy in a couple of weeks and that will begin a new chapter of our lives together. But as of now, it feels like we’ve been through it all. The heart breaks, the parents divorces, the college life, the rumors, the betrayals and tears. And we did it all barefooted and running through fields, afraid that if we stopped to catch our breath we might find ourselves growing up too fast.

We are the Farm Girls, Cassidy, Christiana and Hannah; and we have been best friends for a VERY long time.