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I want ladybumps, I want to be kissed, I want to wear a bra…I WANT IT NOW.

I have ladybumps. Sadie has none. This makes her sad. I want to be allowed out later than 8pm like Bella, and Angel wants to wear movie star-esque make-up to school.

We’re all in such a rush to do or get the things we think will make our lives substantially better, that we sometimes forget to enjoy just being a girl in the world.

That’s the effect of puberty y’know.

One day you think you want to be grown up, the next you want to revert back to playing with dolls, although according to Bella, you’ll still feel like this at 17! In fact, she thinks it’s totally cool to play with Barbie. She has an entire collection and super-styles their do’s by cutting mohawks and giving them purple streaks!

But, if the thought of periods scares you, yet you want to wear a bra, you’re not alone, chica.

At Angel’s super-swanky boarding school, some of the older girls persuaded her to bunk school and hang out with the boys from the equally swanksville boys’ school across town. Angel thought it might be cool.

She was wrong, wrong, wrong.

“…SO, I HEAD INTO TOWN TO HANG WITH SOME MAJOR LEAGUE CUTIES, RIGHT? AND YEP, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE.

ESPECIALLY AARON. HE WAS CUTENESS WITH A SUPER-SIZED CHERRY ON THE TOP. HE TOLD ME I LOOKED HOT. I ACCEPTED HIS COMPLIMENT WITH A SMILE, THEN HE TRIED TO KISS ME. ‘WOAH, DUDE, NOT SO FAST’ I HOLLERED.

WHO DID HE THINK HE WAS? FOR SURE, I THOUGHT HE WAS CUTE, BUT I’VE ONLY EVER KISSED ONE BOY AND I WILL NOT KISS ANOTHER UNTIL I DECIDE.

Y’SEE, THAT’S THE THING ABOUT THIS PUBERTY LARK, JUST BECAUSE I HAVE BOSOMS AND A CURVY BEE-HIND DOESN’T MEAN I’M READY FOR ALL THINGS SMOOCHY SMOOCHES. YET I DO LIKE TO DIG ON BOYS, JUST FROM A DISTANCE.

I TOLD HIM POLITELY THAT I WAS NOT A GIRL THAT WOULD SIMPLY JUST KISS HIM, AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT? HE TOTALLY DUG ON THAT.

HE EVEN SENT ME A TEXT TELLING ME HOW MUCH RESPECT HE HAD FOR ME NOT HEADING TO SMOOCH-TOWN WITH HIM.

AS HE SHOULD, I AM A PINK-THINKIN’ PINK LADY OF FABULOUSNESS AFTER ALL!…”

The transition from girls’ world to womansville is not easy, chica, so don’t rush it. The urge to grow up quickly and do everything right now may seem mucho tempting, but don’t miss out on being a girl in the world. Because let’s face it, being a girl rocks.