If you were to walk into seventeen year old Stephanie Sheppard’s room, you wouldn’t notice anything different. You would still see her blue walls and white carpet, her bed with the tempurpedic mattress and blue flower bedspread. Her white furniture set and the music stand with her magazines on it. The only difference was that there were five suitcases in front of her bed. Those suitcases were filled with all of her clothes and her most precious belongings.
Why was all of her stuff packed? Because she was going to Miami Prep, a private school in which she had earned a scholarship to. Pacific Prep was one of the best private schools in the country. Which is why her family was thrilled for her even knowing that she would have to live on the campus, in Miami; two thousand some miles away from her home in San Diego.
“Mom, are you sure you guys all want to fly out there? Just to drop me off?” Steph asked her mom as she carried two of the suitcases down the stairs to the first floor. Her long brown wavy hair was half up half down and she wore her nice Abercrombie and Fitch sundress, even though she thought it made her butt big. She hated her butt. The rest of her tan body was thin and then there was her butt which looked a little big on her. Like she was a size two wearing a size four butt. The only reason she wore it in fact was that it brought out her tan, which she had worked all summer for, and her green eyes.
“Sweetie this is the last time we will see you until next year I think we can fly out. Plus Liam and Tia want to go to Disney World and see Mickey and Minnie Mouse. I just can’t get used to the idea of you not being here. I mean every day for the past fourteen years you have greeted me in the morning with your perky voice and it won’t be here after today. ” Mariah Sheppard said as she pulled her thick, long, straight, brown hair up into a ponytail that held half as much hair as Steph’s ponytail.
Tia and Liam were Stephanie’s six year old twin siblings. As much as they annoyed her she loved them to
death and didn’t know what she would do without them to greet her in the morning. They could be the most annoying
siblings in the world or the most loving. Like when her best friend, Lily, decided to date Stephanie’s boyfriend, Luke, her
sister and brother gave her hugs and offered to do her chores; she declined the offer of course because she would have
felt bad using her little six year old siblings. Tia was the cutest little kid she had every seen. With her long, thin,
straight, blond hair and her bright blue eyes and thin built she was how Steph said, ah-dor-able! And Liam, Liam was a
very unique boy. He had shaggy brown hair with green eyes. Steph knew when he got older ALL the girls would be falling
for him.
“Mom, I know I will miss you too. You know that every since Lily and I got in that fight you have been my best friend. What will I do without my best friend?” Steph asked as she sat on one of the stools and leaned her elbows on the newly installed granite counter top.
“Steph, you and that girl Anya will be friends I'm sure of it. I mean you have to be right? You’ll be living with her for the next year.”
“I know, I'm so excited to go! I can’t believe I was the ‘chosen’ one to get the scholarship. How lucky am I?”
“Out of the whole country you, Miss Stephanie Sheppard, got invited to Miami Prep. That will teach Lily to be
mean to you! Didn’t you say she entered for the scholarship too?” One of the main things Steph loved about her mom was
how ‘in-this-century’ she was. She knew what stars were dating her and was Steph’s Pretty Little Liar buddy. They had both read the books and watched the series. In fact they both loved Hanna and Aria’s characters the best.
“Yeah, I know I'm so happy I won and not her otherwise everyone would have brought it up.”
