When I started, I thought that I would try it for a little bit, and then quit.
But I was wrong.
Not only did I find people to support me.
I found someone. Possibly...
The One.
But of course, it's only
Socially Speaking.
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In the city of Ashland, Oregon, lives seventeen year-old Samantha Wooden. She's never really been the popular girl, or the athletic one, or the smart one. Just... there. Stuck in middle class, Sam feels like no one truly understands her, not even her two best, and only, friends, Isabelle Reed and Jason Olster. She's always reading books, and they never quite understand why she's so into them. So, one day, when Isabelle jokes about making a fan page, she does.
Sam thought she would find a bunch of weirdos on the Internet, but instead, she finds some people who are like her: fangirls, bookworms; people who seem to understand her. And no one seems to understand her more than Ryan Spence, an Internet boy. They seem to have an immediate connection and talk all the time and tell each other everything. The sad part is that Ryan lives in Anaheim, California.
One day though, when Sam is on a trip with Isabelle and Jason, it happens to be in Anaheim. Ryan says it's time that they meet...
"Hey, aren't you the guy who sells T-shirts by the Academy?" Katie asks me.
"Yeah ... I-I though you'd never know." I say. She's never noticed me before! Inside, I'm jumping crazily. She finally knows who I am!
Writing down the answer to the 4th question, she asks, "What's your name again?"
Never mind, she doesn't.
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Tyler Forrest has sold T-Shirts for a long time at his Dad's T-shirt shop. Almost everyday, his crush since elementary school, Katie Vanilla, goes into the shop to either look around, or talk to Tyler. Tyler has never known why, but she does; and at the shop, they're basically friends.
Katie Vanilla is 'The Popular Girl' at school, and everyday she goes to the T-shirt shop to get away. She wants a break from her very busy life.
Now at school, Katie doesn't even know Tyler exists. At school, Tyler's his alter ego shy self, with only a handful of friends. It's not until one day, he offers her help on her homework that she realizes they go to the same school. Isn't she smart?
Tyler, excited as can be, hopes their store relationship will carry over to school, but will it? And why does she really talk to him at the t-shirt shop? What's her backstory?
And the biggest question is, does Katie even like Tyler?