Ok, look. I never asked to be smart. All I ever wanted from life was a good life, some friends, and a family that loved me. But then, the moment I turned 7 and realized I was destined to be smart, my whole life changed. My friends left me, and I was stuck on the fringes of society. I started to not care about how I dressed, or if I was popular. By the time I was 10,I was once again friends with a whole new group of people. I found I fit in better, and I didn't have to try and seem less smart than I was. But my real story starts a few months before I turned 13. But before that, I had better introduce myself. My name is Rebecca. See if you can guess my last name latter on.
My parent had been in some pretty hard times. Money was really low, and it didn't look like I would be able to have a party. Now, as I was turning 13, you may think that this wasn't a big deal for me. I loved my parties. From the age of 2, I had been seen at parties waddling around my house with a few friends, eating demolished chocolate cake, and my mom chasing after me with a camera. As I'd gotten older, the parties had gotten bigger, then smaller, and then bigger again. As it was my lucky thirteenth, I had planned to have a party with 14 people, to break the charm. Anyways, it was a hot June day, and I was walking home one day from my small run of the mill middle school with three of my best friends, Mary Rose, Macy, and Amanda. They had been pestering me about my party for a week, and I finally had decided to come clean and admit I wouldn't be able to have one.
Just as I had opend my mouth to come clean to my friends, I heard the noise of a conch shell. The note seemed to ring through the mainly deserted street, an earily high note that left shivers in my bones. I turned to look at my friends. "What was that?" I asked. " I don't know." they corussed as one, but barely had the words gotten out of their mouths before the world started to spin. The last thing I remebered before hitting the ground was Mary Rose screaming, and a hard pain in my head like my brain was on fire.
