53. First piercing 54. First best friend 55. First hookup 56. First Bestfriend
First piercing: I pestered my parents for weeks about getting my ears pierced when I was younger, maybe 8 or 9. There were girls at school who had shiny ears and I wanted shiny ears too - eventually my parents gave in. I made sure everyone knew that I was brave and didn’t cry, as if that was the barometer of strength…
First best friend: Liam Hope! His family moved next door to mine when I was 5 and I remember crying because there were no girls. But I realised I like him once he’d shouted at our brothers to stop picking on me, I even let him come into my wendy house. He was a year older than me though, so I was ridiculously jealous that he was able to start school and I wasn’t, but he’d always come home and teach me what he’d learnt. Though he cut the hair off my barbie once.
First hookup: I was 17, it was with my boyfriend Evan, at his parents house during the summer. Both of our parents were working and eventually it just felt like the obvious next step. Though eventually we broke up - I moved to Boston and he moved to California, for college, so it’d never have worked.
