Progress (Progress #1) by Amalie Silver

Author:Amalie Silver [Silver, Amalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1519316518
Amazon: B019KLRNN6
Goodreads: 26201832
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Jesse

There was no pressure to be someone or something with Charlie. Why did I always feel like I needed to be someone better? Why did the people I wasted time with—every teacher I’d ever had, the doctors, the lawyers, the meds—all want me to be someone I wasn’t? Why couldn’t I just be? It didn’t seem to bother Charlie. I was who I was, and that was good enough for her.

I wanted to go back to when I was a kid. Or at least go back to a time when shit wasn’t so complicated. I didn’t need medication then—why do I need it now? I was a free spirit, had a lot of energy, and told the truth. If I did that as an adult I’d be a fucking nutjob.

If we were smart, then we were know-it-alls; if we were polite, then we were pussies; if we were educated, then we were pompous.

If we spoke candidly, we were assholes. If we were just in it for the pussy, we were dicks. And if I was a free spirit, I was psycho.

The music I listened to made me a punk. The clothes I wore made me a slacker. The job I couldn’t hold made me a freeloader.

What was with all the fucking labels?

But if I hid my intelligence, then I was the most brilliant of them all. It helped to avoid the blank stares, the judgment, and the assumptions. Because being smart didn’t make me a know-it-all, dressing in baggy jeans and concert tees didn’t make me a punk, and listening to ska didn’t mean I was a drug addict.

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