Marisa Donnelly

“Do you really expect Cam to finish all that homework? He has football practice every night! I don’t think you teachers understand that students have lives outside of school.”

She’s confident.

You’ll miss just knowing she’s there.

Thank them for dropping literally everything from the project they were in the middle of to hear what’s going on in your world.

“Do you do drugs, like, all the time?”

Why, as women, do we love heels so much? Because with a simple pair we are transformed. We’re not just women. Suddenly we’re bada** b*tches with a purpose.

“Is this going to be graded?”

Blast Christmas music and make homemade peppermint bark.

“I was the most nervous person in the world, sweaty hands and feet, and I kept putting on Chapstick because I thought it would make my lips taste better.”

You regularly have to deny that you ever claimed your last boyfriend was “definitely The One.”

It’s freeing, getting drunk on a Monday. One of those spontaneous, semi-reckless, but absolutely necessary decisions.

I want your eye contact when we speak. No video games. No cell phones. No computer screens. Just me and you, your brown eyes locked on my face.