Part 1 (SSW BOOK ONE) HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL CLUB

AS SSW Book One RESUMES, MY INCLUSION WITHIN A HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL CLUB OFFERS MY DISTORTED SELF IMAGE SURPRISING CHANGES IN FORTUNE:

As proves true of children, in general, each time I’d found myself at a new school, life changed in ways that had been entirely unplanned and thus unexpected by me.  And as each unplanned experience added to my character traits, many of which proved contradictory in nature, eventually, the whole of my adult personality grew complex concerning with whom I’d assert myself as the leader in charge vs those I’d followed as meekly as if my opinions had not mattered nearly as much as retaining the good graces of certain authority figures within a group of friends, whose social station seemed to eclipse my own.

So just as the unexpected death of my baby sister had made a mother hen of me from kindergarten until half way through the sixth grade—at which time my family moved from city life to suburban living—my very first, unexpected romantic encounter with a boy at my new school had gone so badly as to have made a social pariah of me by the end of sixth grade to the point of my feeling secretly miserable to know that each time a party invitation was handed out during seventh and eighth grade, I was not invited—until—my high school experience held forth utterly unexpected surprises that saw my life spin into the realm of one who had (unbeknownst to me) been envied by many girls within our freshman class who’d suddenly seen me soar toward a social plane that seemed so much higher than their own—suggesting that in addition to timing and attitude—personal perception concerning the little that can be seen on the surface may miss important factors in need of serious contemplation when the hidden depths of a person’s complex psyche is taken into consideration; in short—neither you nor I nor anyone we’ve ever met has been so blessed as to have left childhood unscathed.

👩🏻Annie