The style of this story is based off a book that I ready many times when I was a teenager. It's called what my mother doesn't know by Sonya Sones. It's about a girl in highschool and her life with her friends, family, and boyfriends. I've always really liked the verse-style writing that she has. This is my attempt to try out that style, some of these chapters will be inspired from the events that take place in that book, but the actual content will be my own. I have an ending idea for this story, but the actual journey there may take as long or as short as I deem fit. These chapters will be short, probably under 1000 words in all of them, but numerous. I may post several in a day, if the inspiration strikes. All of these will be in Kevin's perspective.
Also I apologize for those of you that read A Virtual Switch. I'm stuck on the next chapter. I've written one sentence. That story is on hiatus until I can get my thoughts in order for it. I really want to finish it though. I'll keep trying, I promise.
Anyway, here we go!
Titles
Prior to being in high school
everyone would call me Kevin.
Close friends might call me Kev.
Ma would call me Kevy,
to be cute,
or something.
Pops liked Sport,
or Champ,
or Tough-guy,
like that was some kind of honorary title for boys my age.
Now that I'm in high school
I'm just Barr.
Somewhere between
football tryouts
and midterms,
my first name got lost.
Teachers,
teammates,
old friends,
new ones…
Just Barr.
I never thought the thing I missed most about middle school,
would be my name.