Operation Homecoming Queen

By Martha L. Thurston

Megan Bryce, a junior and self-proclaimed wallflower seems hidden in the vast sea of students at her high school. When her father receives a promotion at work, the family must move, and Megan comes face-to-face with the reality that her senior year of high school will be at Pierce-Hamilton High. Far from her best friend, Lisa, Megan must make new friends. According to Lisa, the move is the opportunity of a lifetime. She can now reinvent herself into whoever she wants to be, and Lisa has just the plan to do it. But this move brings with it more than the opportunity to rebuild her popularity. Megan may just have a chance to rekindle an old flame.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Martha L. Thurston
• Release date: Aug 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301580415

Martha L. Thurston

Martha L. Thurston is a graduate of Southern Wesleyan University where she obtained a B.A. in Secondary English Education. She has always been an avid reader and enjoys teaching, as well as writing. She grew up in a small southern town in the Upstate of South Carolina within view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It has always been her dream to become and writer and she is happy that she has been able to achieve that dream, by doing so, she has encouraged not only her two sons to chase after their dreams, but her students, as well.

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Operation Homecoming Queen

By: Martha L. Thurston

Operation Homecoming Queen

Published by Martha L. Thurston at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 Martha L. Thurston

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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales, or organizations is entirely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

Title

Table of Contents

Dedication

Wallflowers

Changes

The Plan

Moving Beyond Ordinary

What a Send Off!

Summer School Lessons

1st Day Jitters

The 1st Lunch

At the Mall

To Be One of Them

Steps

Time to Talk

Could This be a Date?

The Nominees Are...

Day After the Nominations

Mother-Daughter Day Out

A Flower Blooms

About the Author

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This book is dedicated to all those who feel invisible. Never lose sight of who you are and never think that you have to change to be accepted.

Wallflowers

The music thumped loudly in the gymnasium at Walden High School. Scattered across the gym floor, teens dressed in formal wear jumped, twitched, and wiggled to the beat. Megan Bryce sat back in her chair, folded her arms across her chest, and let out a barely audible huff of air. Even though the loudness of music would prevent ease of conversation without straining to hear, the girl sitting beside her heard it. But then again, she and Lisa could have communicated telepathically by now. Lisa Gordon had been Megan’s best friend all through middle school, and now, high school. Tonight, she was her only companion at the Junior-Senior Prom. Lisa sat there, her thick black rimmed glasses sliding down her nose, black hair pulled up in a tight bun on her head, and lipstick fading on lips that protruded over a full set of braces, staring out into the vast sea of teen dancers.

Look at them, Megan leaned over and said to Lisa, dancing and having fun!

Look at us you mean, not having fun, said a pimply faced boy sitting across the table from them.

Megan rolled her eyes at him and then turned her attention back to Lisa. I’m tired of being a wallflower, Lisa. Just once, I want to go to a dance and have boys begging me to dance with them.

"Face it, Megan. We’re just not as popular as those other kids out there. This is our place on the social ladder."

You may be ready to accept that, but I’m not, she said, pushing her glasses up on her nose.

Lisa let out a chuckle. And just what do you plan on doing about it? We’re not exactly super models, you know?

Megan leaned forward on the table, propping her elbows up, and rested her head on her hand. Yeah, I know, she said as she stared out at the dancing crowd, lost in their movement.

At least you will get your braces off this summer, Lisa said, running the tip of her tongue across the shiny metal in her mouth. I will still be wearing mine until after I graduate from college.

Megan continued to stare as the music’s tempo changed and the first few measures of Van Morrison’s Someone Like You began to play.

I know that look, Megan. Lisa smiled.

I can’t help it, she said smiling sheepishly. "It was my first and only dance with a boy. Fifth grade. Spring dance. I think his name was Jeff. We were best friends all through elementary school." She sighed as she remembered the tall gangly boy whose long lashes and brown eyes had mesmerized her on a dance floor so long ago.

Too bad he moved away, Lisa said, grinning. Maybe he could have saved you from your mundane existence.

It’s not like that! Megan retorted. We were friends. However, deep down, she could not deny the fact that she was thinking the same thing. He was the one person who saw past all the outer flaws.

"Are you sure? Because you don’t act like it. Every time you mention that story and his name, you have this dreamy