Author's Notes

1. I would like my reader to enjoy this essay and enjoy reading it. There's just some things that are too good to be true is a message I'm trying to get across.
2. The characters i think work well in this essay. It wasn't easy but it wasn't hard.
3. The part that was hardest to write was the plot twist.
4.  I'd like my classmates to give good feedback back and helpful feedback about my essay.

Junior from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sophie from What My Mother Doesn’t Know

It was a hot summer evening and the sun was setting. Junior was walking to the drugstore to get some snacks as he ran into 3 older boys that go to his school that always pick on him. He quickly noticed them and turned around, hoping they didn't see him. Too bad that they saw him as quickly as he saw them. They started sprinting after Junior and he became terrified. The 3 bullies soon caught up with him and smashed him against the pavement. Took all his money and left him with a few good bruises. As junior looked up he saw Sophie and a bunch of her friends from school. Junior felt such hurt as they all laughed at him and walked away. He couldn't believe how stupid he could’ve been for even trusted that Sophie could’ve been different. But lets go back a couple months ago to December, when Junior first laid eyes on Sophie.

Junior was a skinny Indian who lives on the reservation in town. Glasses, a stutter and a lisp makes him an easy target to get picked on. He has an absolute passion for drawing and making comics and wants to do more in his life. He decided to go to a white high school (Reardan) 22 miles away from his reservation. Even though he goes to a new school he still gets picked on even more at the reservation now that everyone knows he goes to Reardan, even his best friend has left him.

As Junior was leaving his history class one day he noticed something. Someone. Someone he had never seen before. A girl. A very pretty girl, named Sophie.

Sophie had brown wavy hair, blue eyes and tall. She, also, loved to draw and loved to go to the art museum. She wasn’t the most popular girl, but she was popular enough for her to be friends with almost everyone at Reardan.

Junior began to notice Sophie more and more each day as the school year went on. He began to know all of her classes so eventually he walked by them everyday as she walked out of them. She began to notice him too.

A week later half of the semester was over so it was time for all the students arts block to change. Junior was in art class, and so was Sophie. Junior immediately noticed that Sophie was in the same class as him but Sophie didn’t really notice because Junior sat behind her. The day Sophie really noticed that the new boy from the reservation, was in her class, was about the fourth day into art class.

The art teacher asked the art students to sketch someone elses face in the room. The teacher assigned Sophie and Junior together.

Sophie and Junior didn't talk much they just began to sketch. Sophie noticed the loneliness of Junior as she drew. She wanted to get to know him more because there was just something about him that she liked. After she finished her sketch she noticed that he was kind of gorgeous. Behind that stutter and lisp was a gorgeous person. Sophie was confused. She never could actually talk to an Indian in front of anyone at her school. She had to find a way to talk to him so no one would see.

After class Junior went to his locker to get his social studies book as a note fell out of his locker.

Junior, meet me outside in the back of the school at 4pm sharp.

Xo.. Sophie

Junior didn’t know what to think or what to do. He just couldn’t wait for that last bell to ring.

As soon as the last bell of the day rang he ran to the back of Reardan and waited. The kids at Reardan got out of school at 2:30pm. Junior waited at the back of the school until 4pm. Still no show from Sophie. He waited until 5pm, still nothing, no one. He gave up hope that she would even come and started to walk back home.

Junior shoved his hands in his front pockets and found some money. There was a drugstore on his way to the reservation so why not stop by to get some snacks.

Thats when he noticed 3 bullies at his school and quickly turned around. As the 3 bullies smashed him down on the sidewalk, he noticed Sophie. Arm in arm with a couple friends, laughing at him.

Junior felt stupid. How could he even believe that a popular girl could ever want to talk to him. As Sophie and her friends walked away Junior noticed Sophie’s head turn around and she had a look of hurt. Junior was confused.

What they both didn’t know is that Sophie didn’t write the note. Sophie's boyfriend Murphy wrote the note.

Murphy was a big bully, the bully of Reardan. He began to notice Junior noticing his girlfriend, and his girlfriend noticing Junior and didn’t like it. He wrote the note and put it in Juniors locker. He waited for him. Waited for him to walk back to the reservation. Waited to beat him up.

Junior and Sophie never talked again after that day. Every now and then, Sophie will take glances of Junior and Junior would take glances of Sophie. No conversation was ever made between them. Junior and Sophie sometimes have that thought in their heads. The thought of what if..?