Every story has more than one side.
This is the first entry in a new series of character stories set within the Unfinished Melody universe. Some voices may be familiar. Others may not.
For now, I’ll let you decide who’s telling this story.
Some people spend their whole lives getting what they want. Others learn to take opportunities when they appear.
He was always the popular guy.
Well liked.
Smart.
The kind of person everyone remembered.
The kind of person everyone wanted to be around.
I told myself it didn’t bother me.
It did.
I was the popular one at my last school.
I would be the popular one here too.
At least that had been the plan.
Then I met him.
Some people don’t have to work for anything.
Things just seem to fall into their laps.
Don’t get me wrong.
I had things.
Friends.
Good grades.
People who knew my name before I walked into a room.
At my old school, I knew where I fit.
Here, I was just the new kid.
Nobody cared who I used to be.
Nobody cared what I’d done.
Everyone already had their place.
I was still trying to find mine.
Some people didn’t seem to have that problem.
They already belonged.
Like they’d always belonged.
