"Grace, you're going to be the new girl. That means you'll be the talk of the town. People will be lining up to know you."
"Yeah, and do you know how that makes me feel?" I put my hands to my throat. Just thinking about a whole line of people waiting to meet me was enough to make it close up. "I don't want to be the new girl. I don't want that kind of spot light."
A million people could have walked right past me, and never once thought I was anything extraordinary. Because, on the outside, I wasn't particularly extraordinary.
But on the inside? Oh, on the inside it was a very different story.
My mind was a deeply chaotic wonder; tangled with wild dreams, and reckless fantasies, and all the right kind of complexities. That's why I knew - better than anyone - that you can't always trust what you see.
Even salt looks like sugar.
The fifth in a series of six stories that make it clear - once and for all - that girls are NOT here to be played with.
THE DATING PROCESS CONSISTS OF SIX BOOKS: CASEY, AMBER, FREYA, KIERA, GRACE & ALICE.
Other books by Claire Cramphorn
Claire is that awkwardly tall girl you wouldn't want standing in front of you at a concert.
She daydreams too too often, has an unhealthy fascination with cupcakes, a strict aversion to social media, and has had a life long struggle with achieving volumised hair and symmetrical eyebrows.
She has once been almost every single teenage cliché that ever existed.
She dated the worst kinds of boys, made a lot of wrong calls, fell in love in less than ten seconds flat, saw entire relationships flash right before her eyes, spent a lot of time feeling lost, even more time feeling lonely, got caught in some very dangerous cycles of never quite feeling good enough, has legitimately forgotten more fashion disasters than most people will ever make, and somehow…
somehow...
got to a point where she could look back and be glad that it all happened.
Because it got her here.
Writing.
For you.
To make you smile. To make you laugh. To make you feel like you've got a friend. To hopefully help you fast forward through the lessons it took her far too many years to learn.
There will be romance. There will be feminism. There will be dreams, and intellect, and chaos, and maybe - just maybe - some neat little metaphors that make you think.
Maybe even some stuff that makes you feel.
Definitely some stuff that makes you realise you're not alone.
That's really what it's all about.
(Sidenote: Claire lives to write, but - after writing this - realises she hates writing in third person.)
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