Taylor left her World Geography class slouched and anxious to get to her bus. She smiled at her friends, waved at the cute boy down the hall, and walked painfully slow while she listened to her best friend, Millie, talk about some party from last weekend. Taylor wished she could run to the bus.
But no. Instead she's sitting here, listening to her friend rant about how much it sucked that Jessica Thomas just had to get wasted all over Millie's brand new pair of Converse. And what's worse yet, was that Taylor had to pretend to care. But finally, farewells were said, and Taylor got to board the bus taking her away from school and all the drama that comes with it. Taylor put in her ear buds and turned the volume up three-fourths of the way, listening to her favorite album by the Strokes.
Taylor didn't have a long bus ride. She got home less than an hour later. At the top of her backpack rested a book that she planned to start, but hadn't quite gotten around to opening yet. It was a book she'd heard fabulous things about, from the geeks at school. And Taylor was a bit of a geek herself, except she would never tell anyone that. Especially not Millie, or any of Taylor's other friends. Her reputation was at stake. She threw her bag on the ground and booted up her laptop, smiling at the background of one of her personal favorite novels—Across the Universe by Beth Revis. Ender and Amy are just the most perfect couple, and anyone who reads the book and disagrees, obviously didn't read the same book Taylor read. She clicks on the button for Google Chrome and waits for it to load, eager to see what Tumblr has to share with her today.
She has quite a bit of followers, and Taylor doesn't know a single one in person. She'd never hear the end of it if Millie saw this website. Her blog name was pretty clever, she thought. At the top, it said Deeply Wasted and her URL was eye catching. Well, she thought so at least. .com
After wasting an afternoon and spending way too much time on the internet, Taylor decides to finally pull out her world geography binder and work on her essay. The topic is about countries in southwest Asia, and how their population is growing too fast. She isn't entirely sure what she's supposed to write about, but she successfully fills two pages of B.S. before going off to shower and then, at last, settling down in bed with the copy of the book she's so patiently been waiting to read.
Chapter after chapter she reads, staying up well past the time she ought to be sleeping, until at last she finishes the worn library copy of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. She doesn't even have the energy to close the book and instead falls asleep right there, satisfied with the novel and headed into dreamland.