The two Nancys

Following up on last two blogs. I mentioned the bff the two Nancys.

We went forward and the rest of my homeroom went back. So I did not see them for a whole year.

I suppose I was sort of interested in one of the Nancys. I wondered if one of them was mildly interested in me. That is another story. I think I have told it from another angle. Perhaps it should be told again. But not now.

This about seeing her again the next year. Now she was a 10th grader and I was an 11th grader. Over the summer or sometime in the previous year she had a makeover. She dyed her hair, cut it differently and learned to use a lot of make-up. She probably lost some weight too. I liked the older Nancy but the newer Nancy was a hit at least with the other girls.

She also changed her behavior. From fairly quiet person with one main friend she became an outgoing vivacious girl who aimed to be popular with the popular clique. As far as I can tell she succeeded pretty well. To her credit she did not totally drop the old Nancy. But they were drifting apart. The other Nancy looked about the same as she did in junior high.

But that was not my interest. She was no longer someone I could deal with. Not that she would have been interested with me. My rep in high school was "out of it nerd". She would have hurt herself by associating with the likes of me.

But I was very interested in observing a person who totally remade herself for high school. Obviously she did not like who she was in junior high. So she went out to change that. High school is a time to find out who you are. Or in this case to create a whole new you and then live in that new body. She set out to improve herself and she did.