Hi, I'm Maddy. Actually it's Madison. I just turned 12 and still naïve; I study in St. Benedict's College, exclusively for girls. People think I'm smart but I don't think so. Is smart being suspended for climbing a water tower on your first year in a new school? Is it smart to not study or do your homework in the hardest subject in school? Is it smart to wait until they hold your report card to do your project that they gave 2 months for but only took one morning? No is what your saying right? But that's me. I'm the kind of person who doesn't have her priorities straight, who's insecure and still doesn't have her own identity.

I used to be a good student! I did my homework, recited in class, the lowest I ever got was an 81! But then it all changed because of my "friends". They were the problem I went into this downward spiral. They turned against me, lied, cheated, backstabbed and then when they were through with me, just faded away, disappeared out of my life...

Now I'm here, alone in 7th grade without a friend in the world. All of them have passed me on their way to 8th grade and nobody even admits to knowing me.

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I know. Short but please R/R! That's me you know!? I climbed the water tank and so on. You see, my school is different. They give you an opportunity to skip 7th grade and straight for 8th but you can't get anything lower than 80 or you go to 7th grade. And look, lucky me! I failed in Math and now I'm separated from the batch I grew up with and have to cope with a new one once I get to be a freshman. Whoopee for me...