Homecoming Queen

I have always wanted to be the Homecoming Queen. I would have given everything, anything, things I never had just to wear the crown that last year of high school. To dance with the king, to be up on stage, to get announced to the whole school, "This is our senior class Queen!" The applause, the respect, if only for a single night. I would have been on top of the world. It would have been my greatest achievement and I would have relieved that moment over and over in my head for the rest of my life. The pictures, dancing while enclosed by a circle of my watching classmates. The inability to hide a smile. Getting my hair done up in some crazy do. My nails, the dress. The spot in the yearbook. God, I would have done anything to be the Homecoming Queen.