It's Not Always Easy: High School Writing Project 2.0, #3

By Danica Myerson

Friends. Fun. Romance. Drama. Danger. HIGH SCHOOL.

Three short stories set among a group of students all in the same psychology class:

It's Not Always Easy – Diane and Abby were best friends.  Then Jack entered their lives.  Will competition over a cute guy ruin their friendship?

What The Eye Can't See – Who would have guessed that underneath Kelly's silent, sweet personality there was a dangerous and violent girl waiting for her chance to come out?

A State of Mind – Chain letter e-mails don't mean anything.  They're only superstition.  Right?

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These stories are also available in the High School Writing Project 2.0 Anthology Short Story Collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: High School Voices Press
• Release date: Sep 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386465713

Book preview

It's Not Always Easy

As Diane and Abby walked into Mrs. Walker's psychology class, it appeared to be a normal Tuesday morning.  The girls sat side by side in the right front corner of the room.  Mrs. Walker put them in the front because she thought they wouldn't talk so much.

Everyone makes mistakes – even teachers!  Actually, Mrs. Walker could have put them on opposite sides of the room and taken away their cell phones and they still would have communicated by using sign language. 

The bell to start class echoed through the school.  Diane and Abby were having such an involved conversation with two of their classmates, Matthew and Mike, that they didn't see the new student walk into the room.

After speaking with Mrs. Walker, he took an empty seat two rows away from the girls.  They finally noticed him when Mrs. Walker hit Mike's desk with a yardstick, causing everyone to stop talking and look around the room to see what had caused the startling noise.

The stranger glanced in the general direction of the girls.  One can only imagine what was going through their minds when they saw that he resembled a popular teen movie actor.

Diane wrote C-U-T-E in her notebook and showed it to Abby.

I'll find out his name and digits, whispered Abby.

Not before I find them out, Diane whispered back.

If you two don't terminate this conversation, you'll have plenty of time to discuss your findings after school, interrupted Mrs. Walker.

When the bell to end class rang, Diane and Abby were ready to pounce on the new student.  Mike and Matthew figured out the girls' intentions so they detained the girls on purpose.

Mike took Diane's psychology textbook and Matthew grabbed Abby's phone.  They threw the items back and forth forcing the girls to play monkey in the middle trying to retrieve their belongings.

While this commotion went on, the new student slipped out of the class as unnoticed as he had come in fifty minutes earlier.  By the time the girls recovered their