Call Me Jojo

"Do your old friends call you anything, or do they just call you Joanna?"
"They called me Anna." Lauren's question was present tense, probably to make me feel better, but I didn't really care all that much--Emma, Madelyn and I had been past tense for a while now. "Really boring."
Lauren wrinkled her nose, which did nothing to diminish her appearance in the slightest. "No, boring's not the word. Tame, maybe. You just don't strike me as an Anna. I'll call you Jo. Or Jojo. You seem more like a Jojo anyway."

After being all but abandoned by her elementary school friends freshman year, Joanna Martinez prepares to spend sophomore year eating alone in the courtyard and being the odd one out when it comes to group projects. Instead, she ends up befriending Lauren Powell, a fellow artist who wears flowers in her hair and spends lunch periods having deep conversations with cinematic prodigy Taylor and aspiring history major/part-time culinary enthusiast Gabrielle. Having harbored a crush on Lauren since the beginning of freshman year, Jojo eagerly embraces the change. Unfortunately, Lauren's got a boyfriend, and while Joshua seems like a nice guy, he's about to stir up more trouble than anyone realizes.