I'm a Nobody
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Frowning in frustration, I didn’t see the group of girls huddled in the center of the hallway, and bumped into an especially chatty girl who, I couldn’t help noticing, was absolutely stunning and was also from my math class earlier. Being tall, blonde and slender, I had no doubt in my mind that I just had bumped into the Queen Bee of the school. A book she was carrying fell to the ground and I picked it up, fully intending to give it back to her.
But before I could, Blondie gasped and gave a cry of outrage and whirled around to face me. Before I could even put my hand out to give her book back, her face scrunched up in an odd way (probably due to the large amount of botox injected), and she snarled, “Watch where you’re going, you freaking weirdo!”
My nostrils flared in anger at the slur, but Blondie didn’t see it because she turned her back on me and resumed conversation with the girls in her clique. I should have kept my mouth shut and walked away. Maybe I should have apologized and then sucked up to her. I planned to just keep the book as silent revenge, but no, that wasn’t enough. Being a redhead, and an idiot, I couldn’t have left it at that. Instead I retorted, “If you don’t want weirdoes bumping into you, you might want not want to hang around in the middle of the hallway, blocking the path of everyone.”
Chattering in and around the clique came to a complete and utter stop.
Blondie slowly turned around to face me. “Excuse me?” she said incredulously.
My eyes widened as I realized I made a huge mistake. Possibly the mistake that will cost me my social status, and blow any chances I might have with Avery. Curse my impulsive nature!
“I-I mean, um, it just seems senseless to be standing in the middle of everything instead of off to the side where you’re not being a safety hazard to people passing by,” I rushed to explain, but I knew I was just digging my hole deeper. “No, wait, what I mean to say is—”
“Look you stupid little pixie,” Blondie snarked, cutting off my babbling. “Shut your face and go eat a flower.”
I decided then and there that I absolutely, positively did not like Blondie and her clique one bit at all.
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About the Book
Tempest Miller’s life has just taken a turn for the bizarre. Normal seventeen-year-old girls would be obsessing over the upcoming prom, hanging out with friends, gossiping, and fawning over guys. Tempest, however, is by no means normal. She travels around the continent to go to the most prestigious academic schools, and she never lingers in one place for long. Her peers and teachers consider her a genius, but what good is it to be a genius when she has no friends? Her life can get a little boring when “you’re invisible personified.” She should be used to the feeling of isolation … but she isn’t, and a little more of her dies when she leaves for yet another town.
Tempest’s loneliness and depression are forgotten, though, when she moves to the small and seemingly quiet town of Ferguson, New Hampshire. At her new high school, she meets the delightfully wacky Melissa Montana and Woody Garrison, not to mention the devilishly handsome Avery Johnson. He immediately captivates Tempest, but fate has an odd way of presenting itself, because her new enemy, Hillary the Hun, is Avery’s girlfriend.
She hatches a plan to take Avery for her own, but in the process becomes wrapped up in a scandal that’s way over her head. Something sinister is stirring beneath the idealistic exterior of Ferguson. Tempest had no way of knowing of just how dangerous and ironic it would all turn out to be.
Amidst the whirlwind that has suddenly become her life, Tempest suddenly finds that she’s torn between two (three?) very different men. But a touch of fate and a little bit of magic will determine who will come out the winner of her affections.
Tempest wonders how she ever thought her life was boring …
About the Author
Natalie Hallak is thirteen years old, and this is her first ever published book. She’s loved writing ever since she loved reading (which is basically from the dawn of time), and she can’t do enough of either things. (Trinity’s story is in the making, so keep your eyes out for that!)
She tries to be part of the community by helping out at the Children’s Center, attending city functions, and just being a good citizen. She lives in