"I worked hard. I had no social life outside of school, mostly because of my refusal to leave the house after dark, so what better use of my time, than to study and I hate to boast, but I did excel in my classes. Inevitably, I became the class nerd. It took a long time to be accepted but with perseverance and a new found love of Pearl Jam, I managed to earn some new friends and thankfully none of them were from the chess club, although one of them did have a nose-piercing which I think was definitely the lesser of two evils.
Soon I began to feel slightly more human again, although I was still Annie and getting more and more used to it by the day. Sometimes I even forgot my real name, until I heard a teacher calling out to another Sarah and then I would snap my head up immediately and fight the urge to answer. And of course, Nan still called me Sarah." http://wattpad.com/story/2108497
