All my stories seem to end up being the same story in disguise - unremarkable boy discovers shy skinny girl who is insecure because of her small breasts but who turns out be absolutely wonderful. A betting person might guess it was a bit auto-biographical ;)
Everyone who has been bullied dreams that, when they leave high school, everything will change. Everyone lives in hope and has likes feel good stories where the nerd gets the girl in the end. As we say at Victims Anonymous, "My name's Sam, and here's my story"
Can Harvey survive and thrive beyond the frontier? Will he be alone? Will the children survive? Was that the roar of a bear or the angry whistle of a passing arrow? 🤠 🏹
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"Sarah said I'd find you here" I said as I sat down gently next to Bethany on the jetty by the boat house. Beth was sitting on the edge, her high heels dumped on the planks beside her, her legs swinging out over the water. Beth kept looking ahead "Yeah she said you wanted to talk?". Eh, wait a sec. Oh I see, that's how it was. Sarah had set us up. I said grinning "that sister of yours, she is something isn't she? She told me you wanted to talk to me too".
Summer had been hard; hard to forget her, hard to move on. But the first week of uni completely helped change that. I was over her. I had forgotten her. Now, here, I was surrounded by new normal people, including normal attractive girls. I was saved. Or was I? Am I still hopelessly in love with the frumpy girl whom I've been crushing on all through school? And might she actually have some feelings for me?
The boys and girls were in two lines facing each other across The Den, a big dark space in the heart of a massive wild rhododendron bush in the scrubby wasteland behind the estate, and we were about to have our first Sexual Education lesson. I looked up and down the line of girls, desperately hoping I'd get Lizzie.
