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Chapter 1

Dear reader

Before you get into the book I want to explain how this book was not only about a passion for writing, but also the events that occurred when I was in my middle school years I had started. I wrote this when I was thirteen and a half and in the eighth grade. I was never too keen on books or writing until I read The Outsiders my seventh grade year, when the eighth grade started and I was given the assignment of the author's choice, I was ecstatic and I knew just exactly how I wanted to start it. I can only thank my wonderful ELA teacher's for this Mrs. Garcia who first introduced me to the book and Mrs. Diehl for letting me continue from where I started. Because without them this wouldn't have been possible for me to do. When I first attended Redlands Middle School for my sixth grade year I never really had the best skills in ELA, but now that I have gone through, I made sure I understood what the book was talking about. They used audio books whenever we would read as a class. This was just the boost I needed to get excited about learning, it was very difficult to write about myself and especially The Odd Ones Out which was written at a scary, tragic, and yet also happy and fun times in my life. My plan is to go further than any Author dreams to. This only started off as an assignment for school but I did not only write The Odd Ones Out I had lived it. And not only had I written this just for a grade I wrote this as a goal to become a young author I was only thirteen when I started to write this. And ever since then It was my goal to finish it. This was mostly written for my grandfather José lus Gallegos born on November 2nd of 1939 died on December 20th of 2019
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When I stepped out of the Redlands Middle School doors I had only two things on my mind: Elvis Presley and the long walk ahead of me. I was wishin' that I could be like Elvis Presley and sing for a livin'.- He can sing worth a spit and I can't- But I guess my own voice and hair ain't too bad though. I have or should I say had long dark-brown almost-black hair and greenish-grey eyes. I wish they were more grey though. I still hate my singing voice but I gotta be content with what I have. I'm more into guy things then I am girly stuff if you know what I mean. I'll doll up every once in a blue moon but that's on my own accord not anyone else's. Even though I may be a girl, others find me to be weird because I don't act like a snob, dress in crop tops and short shorts, or wear six pounds of makeup every single day only to complain about acne later on. But why should I?. It ain't like we're all cut from the same piece of cloth just because we're all girls. Besides I like being a tomboy just fine. That's all you need to know about me for now,

I had a long walk to the Redlands church from school and no company. But I usually lone it anyway. Well at least until I get picked up, there's no other reason for me to be walking alone like that unless I'm at the picture show or getting groceries for dinner. Once I even flaked out on the last day of school to go watch a movie. I like watching movies by myself. I somehow understand them better when I do. Redlands Middleschool is here in Grand Junction, Colorado and here all us teens can do in this town is go swimming, roller skate, go to a movie, or a Fun Park. And in the summer they have this thing called Ten Buck Tuesday it's ten dollars to get in and an extra five for unlimited laser tag, go karts, and arcade games. My other favorite places to go are the Picture Show, Orchard Mesa Lanes, and The Delta Drive-In. With our generation Greasers and Socs aren't really a thing anymore the names have been updated to popular and unpopular but the same things separate us. Not just personalities but money. We call the popular groups Redlands rich kids and they call us Riverside bums. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if we all got along? Us "poor kids" have different hang outs than the rich ones. We like to hang out around arcades, movies, and in the neighborhoods with our buddies. And the others hang out around the mall and God knows where else, but we sometimes share 4640, Spin City, and Bananas Fun Park. However, we have the same name for the ones in the middle Middle Class.