This book Speak is all about a girl who has to suffer throughout all of freshman year just because she called police for safety at a high school keg party. She was raped by some random guy who everyone dreamed about being with. Her best friend betrayed her. She had scabby lips that burned whenever she drank orange juice. This kind of thing totally happens in the world, someone calls the cops at a party, someone sees, slaps them, runs away, yells at everyone to get out, someone gets arrested. Someone gets suicidal/ depressed, and is thrown at by things. That same person gets stalked by the rapist who goes to the same school as she does.
At school the only class she likes is art. Not that shes doing too well on that tree while everyone's moved on, but at the fact that the teacher seems to see inside her and know what shes dealt with. I think that even though you may not notice, there are actually these kind of things happening, whether you know it or not, the person next to you probably has this kind of thing going on as well. After the first few months of school things sort of clear up. Miranda has a friend, her grades are okay, but she still lives with the dread.
Just as the things get better, they get worse once again, she's failing everything except art, her one and only friend leaves her for some clique. She's realized that IT goes to her school. In a snap everything goes down, and she hides in a closet until fate comes and finds her.
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