Why my life sucks
by Geri Lazaro
1. My dad left when I was a kid.
2. My mom is in love (insert eye roll).
3. With a guy who is like 10 years younger than her!
4. My friends think he’s hot. (Gross)
5. I love ballet but our dance studio has a leak and we
have to dance in this smelly studio that doubles as an aikido dojo.
6. There’s this Dojo guy who thinks the studio belongs to
him.
7. Friends think Dojo guy is cute. (Ew.) (Okay, objectively
maybe but still, ew.)
8. I’m failing algebra.
9. Need to quit either basketball or ballet. Or both.
10. Dojo guy keeps showing up! (Fine, he does aikido in the
same building but whatever.)
11. Dojo guy is asking me to dance with him. And maybe he
is as cute as my friends say.
12. I don't know what to do anymore!
Ines Bautista-Yao is the author of One Crazy Summer, What’s in your Heart, Only A Kiss, When Sparks Fly, All That Glitters, and Someday With You. She has also written several short stories. Among them are “Plain Vanilla,” “A Captured Dream,” one of the four short stories in Sola Musica: Love Notes from a Festival, “Things I’ll Never Say,” part of the Summit Books anthology Coming of Age, and “Before the Sun Rises,” part of the Ateneo University Press anthology Friend Zones.
She is the former editor-in-chief of Candy and K-Zone magazines and a former high school and college English and Literature teacher. She is also a wife and mom who lives in the Philippines with her husband and two little girls. Her books are available digitally on Amazon and Buqo.ph.
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Top Ten List
My top 10 fun facts about me
1. I won best actress in my freshman school play
2. I’m the eldest granddaughter on both sides
3. When I was a senior in high school, my mom convinced me to cut my hair really short
for the first time in my life. I loved it but I’m never doing it again!
4. I was crowned queen of our senior ball but I’m pretty sure it was because my teachers
made the decision haha!
5. I used to read my stories aloud to my classmates underneath the huge trees in school
6. After graduation, I played a prank on my boss since it was my last day on the job.
7. For an exam I gave my high school students, I pretended I was kidnapped and they
had to figure out the answers to save me. I enlisted other students to answer any
possible questions because I was still officially “missing.”
8. Watching Star Trek makes me happy.
9. So does watching romantic comedies.
10. While writing my first book, I tried as much as possible to make my main character
different from me. But no matter what I did, friends and family still said they could hear
my voice while they read it!
Snippets:
6. Sometimes, you don’t need to understand, you just have to accept things as they are:
complicated and messy.
7. He smiled at me, all the earlier tension gone, as if he had made peace with the
performance in the few seconds I had my eyes closed. “That’s why there’s no one else I
want to dance with but you.”
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