Prompt Description

She is fourteen standing at the edge of childhood and something else entirely Her hair falls in waves over her shoulders sometimes neat sometimes tangled by the wind She wears sneakers scuffed from running down sidewalks and jeans ripped at the knees whether by fashion or adventure no one knows Her backpack is heavy with books she loves and notebooks filled with half-written thoughts and doodles Music hums in her ears always a soundtrack to her days shifting between moods like the sky before a storm She laughs easily but not always sometimes she is quiet lost in thought staring out windows wondering what comes next The world feels both too big and too small her dreams stretching past city limits past oceans past everything she has ever known Friends are everything family is complicated school is a mix of boredom and brilliance She wants freedom but also security independence but also someone to understand She stands in front of the mirror searching for herself in her reflection knowing she is changing knowing she is growing She is fourteen a storm and a sunrise a question and an answer all at once