Taking in a deep breath, I try to straiten myself. "I need to drink my pain."
"We already finished the bottle of wine." She nodded to the empty bottle, covering our rug with spotted stains as I waved it around with my hands. "I mean, 'we' would be overstating it, I barely touched any of that."
"More is preferrable. One year of my amusing life doesn't fit into a bottle." I snapped.
Pandora Summers was 16, young, and completely hopeless, faced with immense despair. Being in a boarding school, not being herself with her family, and feeling emotionless with her friends, she felt like she'd lost track of who she was. But when she attends a friend's party, resigned to accepting his advances, she looks up to see him.
"Ah, the funny things life will throw at you to piss in its pants with laughter at your hell."
Includes:
-Swearing, underaged alcohol, smoking as well as some mentions of drugs.
-Stuff to cope with the jokes of life.
-Also, PDA and other similar activities is a reocurrence.
ATTENTION: I'm not promoting anything that is said in this book, other than how you shouldn't let yourself be brought down by the hardships of life, and love, and all those other crazy things we call normal. I cope by turning aweful facts into something I can joke about. This entire book is loosely based on what I've had to face. I hope that it can help, and once again, don't try this at home. I mean it. Especially the bathtub during a party part...
Ian was a nice kid. He liked dinosaurs. He had friends. He could play sports. Then puberty hit and everyone cared about posting up pictures of their chests.
He's sixteen and he still hasn't caught up to everyone else. He isn't girl crazy. He doesn't try to be cool, but somehow he got talked into going to a celebrity sweet sixteen. Now it's too late to go back. Now he needs to act like a "bad boy" to stand a chance of getting inside. Once he's in there, then what? He does drugs and loses his virginity? This wasn't the life Ian wanted for himself. But then...he's not sure what life he does want.
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Written December 2013
Re-edited 2022.
Like most of my work, it goes to some dark places.
Reader discretion advised.