Friends With Someone Famous

It’s weird having a friend who’s a celebrity. I mean, I love it, but instead of finding out that she broke up from her boyfriend by her texting me, or telling me, I see it on every tabloid magazine in the supermarket. I’m best friends, practically sisters, with Lena Merc. What, she’s really nice, and besides, I knew her way before she got famous.

Lena and I were friends out on our family farms in small-town Nebraska, starting way back when we were five. We grew up together, with me known as the smart and funny one, and her as the sweet, pretty, and dramatic one. She had dreamed of being an actress since she was nine. I wanted to be an artist, then a doctor, and then decided on marine biologist. Everyone told us to not get our hopes up, because no marine biologists or actresses had come out of Bartley. Sure enough, Lena became an actress, and I became a semi-well known author. She could sing too.

But no matter what, we’re both still country girls at heart.