Author: Thomas Amo
Published: October 11, 2012
Purchase: Amazon
High school is hard enough just being yourself, let alone trying to be someone you're not.
Hannah Richards isn't your typical 16 year-old at Wichita Falls High. Fashion, trends, cosmetics and style are unimportant to her. An avid reader, guitar player, and classic movie and television buff, Hannah marches to the beat of her own drum. Visible only to her father, the town sheriff, and her two best friends, Lauren and Haylee, Hannah lives a simple, un-pampered life, as an "Eastie."
After coming to the aide of Taylor Monroe, a popular member of the "Stilettos" at school, and a series of misunderstandings with her friends, Hannah is forced to re-invent herself. She quickly gets caught up in a life much different than the one she knows, where status, glamour, makeup, appearance and acceptance become her masters. And what of the dark secret that haunts the streets of Wichita Falls?
Can Hannah survive the lies, deceit, jealousy, and rage that are now waiting for her around every corner? Will she succumb to the pressures of popularity? Or will she be crushed under the heels of the "Stilettos"?
Hannah gave a look of confidence as she pushed her head through a fresh t-shirt. After a lighting fast washing of her young face, and brushing of teeth, she looked into the mirror, grinned and then stuck her tongue out at herself. Reaching into her backpack she retrieved her flip-flops, hair ties and hairbrush. She quickly ran it through her long shoulder length brunette hair and grabbed a hair tie. After a couple of twists she had it into a ponytail and ready for the day, with flip-flops in one hand and backpack in the other she opened the bathroom door. Her father stood with arms crossed looking at his wristwatch. Hannah tapped the crystal and smiled. “See dad, barely thirty-seconds.”
Jacob nodded as he took note of his daughter’s bare feet. “So you don’t wear shoes to school now?”
“I’m not going barefoot, I’ve got my flip-flops.”
“You know in my day we called those thongs.”
Hannah gave her father a long stare of disbelief. “Yeah, dad—don’t,” she said curtly as she quickly grabbed some coffee, poured it into a travel mug and shouted bye to Dude. She then hoisted her backpack over her shoulder, kissed her dad on the cheek before he went inside the bathroom, and made her way out the front door still barefoot.
“Hippie!” called Jacob as he laughed to himself.
Hannah raised her hand, popped up two fingers, and gave her dad the peace sign as she left the house and took in a breath of fresh morning air. She tossed her backpack into the rear seat of her 1996 Jeep Wrangler. Sure it was sixteen-years old but it was the same age as her and she loved it. She loved its square headlights and half doors. It was bright yellow and showed plenty of wear and tear. Two large grey strips of duct tape in the shape of the letter “X” covered the well-worn driver’s seat. No matter how cold it was Hannah always insisted on never putting on the canvas top. This was a Jeep, it was supposed to be rugged, plus there just wasn’t enough duct tape to cover all the cracks and tears in it.
Thomas Amo is the author over 20 comedies and farces for the live theatre. This former full time theatrical producer has spent the last thirty years writing in many different genres, from pilot scripts for television to screenplays on independent films. Outside acting, directing and producing, his first love has always been writing. Forever ME, marks his debut into YA fiction.
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