Lindsay Anderson

As the dance progressed on, Ellie and Shepp-ard held each other close and looked into each other's eyes. As they continued to dance, some-thing hit them. They were both in love with the other one, and had been ever since their duo came to be. Maybe, it was even before they had become a duo. Why it had taken them until now to see it, I don't know. However, Ellie and Sheppard were finally admitt-ing their feelings to themselves. As Ellie and Sheppard silently admitted their feelings to them-selves, they were a little nervous. However, they were also complete-ly and utterly happy at and by the realization.

I am anticipating that this Christmas is going to be the best Christmas that I have had in a long time. Not only are my boyfriend, our parents, and I going to Disney World for Christmas, but I will also be performing in Disney World's Christmas Day Parade. I even get my own float and everything I am so excited that I can hardly wait On a different note, there is also something that I am very excited about that is going to be taking place tonight. Tonight, I am hosting a Christmas party for my classmates and me. Due to the fact that all of us will be doing our own thing for Christmas this year, I wanted all of us to get together for a happy, merry, and jolly celebration. A good time is truly going to be had by all tonight

Today are my best friend's eighteenth birthdays. That's right Kent, Christian and Brooke turned 18 today While I gave Brooke a dainty silver necklace with sun charm, I gave Kent a cool t-shirt. For Christian, however, he didn't want anything materialistic from me for his birthday. For his birthday, Christian wants me to sing a duet with him at dinner tonight. Touched and honored at his request, I said I would be happy and honored to.

Oh...my...gosh.. When my family and I arrived at the beach house, the Christian Cole whom I remembered having glasses and braces was not there. In his place was a Christian Cole that had grown at least four inches since the last time that I had seen him, was glasses and braces free, is tall, toned, hot, and extremely gorgeous. I used to think that he was cute and gorgeous. Now he is gorgeous. Don't get me wrong, I am in and have always been in love with Christian Cole due to his kind and genuine heart. However, he is now completely easy on the eyes. I have never been shy around Christian Cole, but I think that that is about to change quickly.

"Would you like me to sing to you before you go to sleep?""That would be nice." Ellie smiled." Okay." Sheppard smiled, taking Ellie's hand in his. "I'm going to sing you a song that makes me think of you and that says what I have wanted to say to you for a while.""Okay." Ellie smiled, her heart doing a flip inside of her chest.

When I got home yesterday, Mom and Dad had informed me that they were throwing me a welcome home party today. Not only were my best friends invited, but my other good friends from church and Chanton were, as well. This made me truly excited and happy. After all, I would be getting to see everyone that I love and had missed I am truly excited about tonight On a different note, I am truly happy to be home I have missed it and everyone so much

Dear Journal, these past seven weeks have been amazing The nine other girls in the modeling group that I am in (Pulman Modeling Agency has ten groups) our amazing group leaders, and I have spent them traveling through-out Europe, modeling in shows, doing photo shoots, inter-views, making appear-ances, and of course, sight seeing Even though I enjoyed every-where we went, my favorite places would have to be Paris and London Speaking of London, my group, group leaders, and I are getting ready to fly out of London back to Orlando Even though I had a great time in Europe these past seven weeks, I missed my best friends, parents, boyfriend, and everyone that I love very much I am truly excited about seeing them today -B

"What are you thinking about?" Adriana smiled, noticing the huge grin on my face." I was just thinking about asking you to race me down the beach.""You're on." Adriana replied, the smile not leaving her face. "When I win, what do I get?""A date with me tonight to ring in your birthday early.""I like the sound of that." Blushing a little, Adriana continued, "If you win, what do you get in return?""A date with you tonight to ring in your birthday early.""So, I take it that, either way this plays out, we are going on a date tonight?""I guess we are ." I smiled, my heart happily and excitedly thudding inside of my chest.

As Adriana and I sang along to the music, we kept our eyes on each other. Our smiles stayed on our faces, as well. As we sang, I also noticed something else. This was the first time in many years that we weren't bickering, and were actually hanging out with each other. I also noticed that the feelings that I felt for her weren't annoyance or disgust. In fact, they were feelings of love. Suddenly, I realized something. I hadn't bickered with Adriana out of annoyance. I had bickered with her because I am in love with her.