The Mean Girl

No one ever writes a story about the popular girl. Sure, they write about the dorky girl who gets the guy in the end or the cliché loser who has the most popular girl in school for a snobby step-sister, but NEVER do they write a story about being popular.

Which was exactly the point I was trying to argue to my creative writing teacher, Ms. Harlot (laugh, if you must), during my lunch period instead of gossiping with my friends.

“No, Ms. Johansen, this assignment was not set up to spite you, as incredulous as it may seem, but to boost everyone’s creativity. The easiest story to write is always your own, right?”

Wrong, I wanted so badly to say. But somehow, through gritted teeth, it came out as, “Of course, Ms. Harlot.”

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Ela Johansen is the sterotypical mean girl. She rules the school, she has her drones, she has her minions but there's one thing she's missing: an identity.

Her father left her pregnant mother in a heartbeat and she remarried so fast that she never even bothered to tell Ela her surename. Now, at 16 years of age, her junior year creative writing course is forcing her to write about her life from beginning to end as she has until the end of her junior year.

Problem? Little Ela has no idea just how complicated her life truly is until she puts pen to paper and her family history comes leaping from the shadows of the past- literally.