Clouds loomed over yet another frigid night in Beensville. Sara hated the cold weather. Coming back for the weekend had been a mistake.
She watched the faces around the fire. All smiling and laughing. A few were shivering in the cold weather. The girls all gossiped about other people they had known from high school. They snuggled closer to their boyfriends, planning their futures together.
Sara saw all these faces and felt lonely. She had been so close to these girls for so long. They had passed notes, they had fought over boyfriends, they had fallen asleep on hard floors together many times. Yet, Sara didn't belong here anymore.
She had always longed to leave her hometown, as had many of these girls, and Sara had been the only one to get away.
Staring into the fire, she considered the cost of her dreams. The people she would have to leave behind.
She would leave them all to get away to the sunshine.
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