ch2

(Saturday beofre Christmas)
It seemed that she couldn't forget those eyes of his.
"He was a lot cuter when he was younger," April and Christy (her sisters) would both say.
Lily couldn't tell them that she thought he was good-lookin' right now. There would be relentless teasing or weird looks if she did.
The most attracting thing to Lily were eyes. A guy could be really ugly, but if he had a good set of eyes, she would forget about everything else.
She looked up pictures from the movie along with surfing the web for pictures of him. Her oldest sister, April, notiving for the last few days she had put up at least 6 pages of just Elijah Wood on her website asked,
"You like him?"
It was now or never...
"Ya," she said softly with a smile.
April nodded. Lily looked back to the computer screen... So that was out in th open! It took a load off her shoulders!

Laying in the dark that night, thoughts kept clouding her mind.
"I should write him a fan letter," she whispered into the darkness.
She thought of what she should say. After going over it a million times in her mind, she finally fell asleep. In the morning, she had to ask her mom,
"Do we have any stamps?"
"Who are you writing to?"
"A friend."
"Oh okay."
She licked the seal and put the new "Texas" stamp in the corner. She set it in the mailbox, not knowing if i would ever reach her "Shining Star".