Kyra POVTor ~ age fifteen Elara ~ age fourteen Aiden ~ age fifteenBeing shy sucks. It took me weeks of smiling at the new girl in our class, Elara, to work up the balls to ask her if I could walk her home after school. She's shy too, though, and now we're walking in awkward silence. I want to hold her hand, but I can't tell if she wants me to. I've got my guitar with me, slung over my back in its case since I'm playing in a school project, so I ask her if she wants to stop at the park and listen to me play. I lose myself in the music when I play, and it always calms me down, stripping me of my insecurities. One thing I know I do well is create music and write lyrics."Sure," she says. "I do some singing. I'm not great, but I love to do it anyway. If it makes your ears hurt, I promise I'll stop."It turns out she does, in fact, have an amazing voice, and my shyness starts to fade as we sit at a picnic table. I play some of her favorite hit songs and she sings along. I try not to
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