writemybreath
They never really gave me a chance. My mom talks more about elves and dwarves than real people, my "uncle" isn't even really related to me, and the only friends I've ever managed to make are a boy with his head in outer space, and a walking computer of a girl. Don't get me wrong, I love my life, and I love my family. It's just that sometimes I wonder if maybe I was meant for something different, something more noteworthy. Something more than a few decades of this aimless wandering I'm looking toward and then death.
Lemma Curtie Hastings has been raised to be unique. Her single mother has only ever wanted what's best for her, and the man who helped raised her has always spoken more like an inspirational quote board than a middle aged man. But in their effort to make her her own she's found that she doesn't have any idea of what that looks like. Until Tucker Daniels turns up on her front step, drenched and shivering.
Now, involved in a deal with one of the most infamous students of Washington High, she finds herself in a whole new ballgame. Between trying to teach a delinquent to be a stand up citizen, and trying to keep herself from falling into the pit that his prying questions are threatening her with she soon realizes that she was never the one giving the lessons.