Letter

My second assignment for Creative Fiction Writing. I was to create a letter that to someone that would describe the person writing it in as much detail as possible.

Hi mom!

I was so excited to get your letter, that I decided to write this one back right away, but as soon as I started I realized I didn't know what to talk about. It's a few days later now, and I still don't know what to talk about, but I'm going to write it anyways.

Everything has been going great here. Me and Kathy went to the beach the other day, and it was beautiful. We camped there for the night, and in the morning I went out looking for sand dollars, but I couldn't find any! You need to let me in on your secrets. We ended up getting caught in a bad rainstorm coming back. I was scared to drive my car during it, I need to get it looked at once I have the money. Normally it wouldn't have been so bad but Kathy fell asleep so it was just me. I didn't even have music to keep me company since I didn't want to wake her up. She didn't even know there was a storm.

Oh yeah, I got my hair cut! I know you always said I looked good with longer hair, but I felt it was time for a change. I might let it grow out again depending on how much I like this look. I think I might dye it too, the dirty blonde look hasn't worked for me since I was twelve. What color do you think I should go? Kathy says I'd look good with anything that wasn't too crazy, but I think she's just being nice. Her sorority is having a dance in a week or so and she's making me go as her date. I know I kind of have to, but it's one of those fancy type dances where you actually have to be close to your partner and I haven't even tried one of those since getting this tall. Speaking of which, how tall is dad? I was just wondering if I was bigger than him yet.

School has been going well, I'm pretty sure I'm doing okay in all of my classes. Chemistry has me freaked out though, I've heard its really hard and even though it's only the second week I feel like I might be falling behind. Midterms are going to suck this term. I've been thinking of becoming a literature major though, what do you think? I mean, I like to read and everything, so it makes sense. Kathy declared as an art major last week, which I always knew she would. We went out to dinner to celebrate, it was fun.

I hope everything is going well back home. Tell sis I love her and ask dad if he knows about the plane ticket situation yet. I feel like we should be getting on that soon?

Sincerely,

Zack