High School

There are many things we have learned in the past few years of our high school life. For instance, how to drive, how to babysit, how to dye our own hair (albeit badly), how to swear and drink and still get up in the morning for 9 AM classes. These are the things that we normally learn when we are teenagers, isn't it? Some of us learn other things, though. Things that we never wanted to know. How to cover finger-print bruises with the makeup we buy to cover our acne, how to climb out of our beds the morning after something horrible happens and shower, wash away the memories of unwanted hands on us. We learn these things whether we want to or not. We learn how to avoid the eyes of those who leave imprints on our skin, even after the bruises fade, we learn how to blame ourselves for things that we could not control. While we're teaching ourselves how to slather makeup on our skin like war paint, we're going to battle every day against them and against ourselves. These are the things that we learn as teenagers, in the five years that we aren't really anything, and everything, all at once.