Melissa

Melissa is the girl who has eyes as green as a cats and clothes the color of grass. The people at school think shes crazy with her nature friendly ways, perfect silver toes and perfect silver eye shadow...everyday, for all I can remember.

Melissa who is too pretty to be seen, she stays locked up under her fathers lock and key. Her father wants her perfect, to grow up, get a job, and live her life like a normal person. But Melissa has dreams that she will just have to keep dreaming. For now she is under her fathers law.

Melissa who taught you to do perfect silver toes and perfect silver eye shadow, roles her tongue and flips her blond hair. Will you teach me?

Melissa who does not have many friends because of her ways with nature, got in a fight and lost them. The friends I mean.

The rumors that people carry around, there not real. You stand in the corner of the field, as if no one else is there. Melissa what do you think about then?

The clock tickets until 3:00 Melissa, what would you do if you didn't get home to your father on time, what if you didn't?

Melissa do you wish that you could be free from your fathers rules, go your own way, stop dreaming you dreams and start living them...away from Mango Street. Far far away, where no troubles can catch you, where no fathers can lock you up and control you life. Put your own perfect silver toes and your own silver eye shadow, your nature friendly ways, your clothes as green as grass, some where people don't call you crazy.