Make Believe

Every day at school I would sit impatiently at my desk waiting for the end of the school day. The bell would ring and I would stuff everything into my backpack and race for the bus. I heard the voices of older people yell “no running in the halls”, but nothing could stop me. I was a woman on a mission. It was time to set aside work and rules for the day let my imagination take a hold of the reins.
The time had finally arrived. I stepped off of the bus, waited for my bus driver to give me the sign that it was safe to cross the road and rushed into my house. I was greeted with a big hug and kiss from my mommy and the same old boring questions. “How was your day?” she asked. “Fine.” I replied. “What did you do?” “Nothing.” The only reason I never went into any details about my day was because I was too busy thinking about what I was going to do for the rest of my night.
After a long and treacherous few hours of doing homework and eating I was finally able to escape to my getaway car: my banana seat bicycle. I hopped on my bicycle and raced down the street as fast as I could to where my friends and I would meet every night. For the next few hours I wasn’t Sarah Rae Potts anymore. I was anything my imagination wanted me to be. This ranged from animals, princesses, a baby or anything else because my imagination had no limit. The list goes on and on of the different adventures I got myself into. My friends and I played tag and hide & seek. We raced on our bikes and climbed trees. Doing all of this made these the best days of my life.
Another thing that I did was play with Bratz and Barbie’s. I would set up their rooms and houses with anything I could find sitting around the house. I dressed them in their prettiest outfits and no one had a better boyfriend or a prettier girl than me. I spent hours acting like I was older with my Barbie’s and Bratz until it was time to go home, put away my imagination and bring back Sarah Rae Potts until the next night.