With an extra beat in her steps, Anais made her way to the lake with a bright smile that had showed her upper teeth. It had been a while since she had heard from her father but a letter that had arrived to her earlier made her feel happier. Her relationship with him was a lot better than her mother's. Anais almost dreaded every letter that arrived from her mother. They usually nagged about what she was wearing to school, if she was talking to the right people or if she made that her appearance didn't look like a rat's nest.
She lightly shrugged to herself, her mother's constant nagging voice in the back of the girl's young head disappear the moment she decided to ignore it.
Reaching the edge of the lake, she grabbed a flat rock and tried her best to make it skip on top of it. After a multiple failed attempts, none of the rocks ever reaching over one skip, she huffed and sat far enough from the edge of the Lake so her clothes wouldn't become wet.