From the author to the reader: This is the first time that I find myself in this position, I discovered the world of fanfiction after reading the Harry Potter series 3 or so years ago, since then I have read probably over 150 fics belonging to the HP fandom and others and soon it became my main hobby. In those 3 years, the idea of actually writing never lasted more than a few minutes within the confines of my imagination mainly because I couldn't come up with an idea that felt unique enough to be written and also because of English not being my main language and me not liking stories written in Spanish (my main language) kept me off writing.

And then I found the Perks of being a wallflower. It started after watching Justice league and wondering who Ezra Miller is and finding out he did a movie with Emma Watson and Logan Lerman, two of my favourite actors, and I decided to watch it. And just under an hour and a half later, I found myself thinking "this is beautiful" instantly followed by "I need to read the book" which I bought the ebook and 2 days later I finished it and thought "this is even better" and "I need more" so I opened and and found myself disappointed by the lack of content which is composed mostly of one-shots and a couple of forgotten stories although the few that you can find are great after a couple of weeks it proved to be not enough and I thought what if I write?

And unlike all of the other times, I considered writing that though never left and it grew. An idea had formed in my head, what If all of Charlie's friends didn't graduate that year? let's make it so that they are all on the same year more specifically their second year of high school that way I get to keep that group of friends and their dynamics but how do I introduce Charlie to them in a way that keeps that "I'm new here where do I fit in" theme that the book has and today I figured out I won't write it here because it will probably be in the summary and if not then it's on the first chapter.

If you made it this far thank you and I'm sorry you had to read through my ramblings. Beware what follows is my first time writing and if you find any mistakes do point them out.

Enjoy

Chapter 1: 1300 miles

Charlie PoV

When my parents sat down with my brother, sister and me and told us that Dad got a promotion we were all excited that is until the other shoe dropped the promotion was under the condition that he goes to work in the central offices at Pittsburgh that's 1300 miles from Houston which meant we would have to move.

My sister Candace was the most affected by the news she immediately ran to her room and started crying, my sister is what you would commonly call the popular girl meaning lots of friends, head of the student association, gets top grades and is on the fast track to graduating with full honours, so I guess I can understand why she is upset after all we are moving 1300 miles away from it all. Then, on the other hand, there is my brother Chris, he just graduated 2 weeks ago and has like five scholarship offers from different universities to play football including Penn State which he had ruled out almost as soon as it arrived saying 1300 miles was too far from home, I remember dad saying not to send his answer so soon because you never know the twists that life can throw at you. He said that with a little smile that I didn't understand at the time but I'm guessing that he knew of the possibility of having to move there.

And then there's me, Charlie, I had mixed feelings about it, after all, I was going to start my second year of high school and I had already gone through all of the mess that is not knowing anyone and trying to make friends, then again I failed miserably at that part only making one Michael, god it has been a while since I thought about him, I'm not sure how to feel about that. You see he committed suicide back in May. I don't remember much of the time after that happened my sister said I was going through the motions of life without living, like in a daze.

I remember the school setting up guidance counsellors for anyone who needed it, but they made me and the other few friends that Michael had to go to a mandatory session. I could tell they were afraid that one of us would kill ourselves. I can remember the counsellor saying that he suspected that Michael had "problems at home" and that he felt that he was alone and could talk to anyone after that I started screaming at the guidance counsellor that Michael could have talked to me. he tried calming me down but I started crying even harder. Eventually, my brother came by and took me home. For the rest of the year, I was an outcast, everyone was scared that I would just break down again so they started avoiding me, not that most weren't doing it before that but now it was even worse, so yeah 1300 miles away from all of this sounds pretty good right now.