Hazel sighed. When I'm old enough, I'm moving as far away from this place as possible, she thought. Not that there was really anything wrong with Indianapolis, but nothing ever happened.
"It's not like you're doing anything to encourage something to happen. Go out with your friends sometime." her mom would always say.
It's not exactly my fault that I'm a total nerd and no one likes me.
Hazel was a nerd, a complete nerd that couldn't hold conversations because she only wanted to talk about one thing: "An Imperial Affliction", her favorite book. She wasn't even a diverse nerd.
In her defense, it was the best book in the world. She'd read it about a hundred times. She tried reading other books, but none of them even came close to the perfection that was "An Imperial Affliction". The book was all about a cancer patient, which would seem kind of sad, and it was, but the main character did such extraordinary things, and the other story plots that didn't involve the life threatening disease made the book worthwhile. Plus, it ended right in the middle of a sentence. IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE. Hazel was pretty sure that was against some sort of unwritten rules of writing, like killing off a character while in he/she's point of view, but it always left you wanting more. Unfortunately there wasn't anymore, so she just had to reread the book over and over again.
Her parents didn't think that was healthy. She was a sixteen-year-old in high school, and in their minds, she should be getting drunk and doing drugs (they were very loose parents). They tried to get her to talk to the guidance counselor. She hate guidance counselors. All of the questions that she didn't have answers to and the reassurances that they were there for her just made everything awkward.
It wasn't like she had NO friends. She had one: Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn was really more of a pity friend, and she thought my entire life was pathetic, but it kept my mom happy. The problem was Kaitlyn thought it was her life's mission to get me to become "popular" and "socially active". She was always dragging Hazel to parties and the mall. (Mind you, that does count as nothing; all she did was sit in the corner.) That was only fun if the party hosts had pets, or Kaitlyn left her outside of a store to read "An Imperial Affliction".
When Hazel went to college, she would have lots of friends, who had the same interests as her, and she would become less shy and her life would have tons of adventures and she would probably fall in love. But none of that was going to happen in Indianapolis.