Chapter 7
I woke up and felt pretty good. I looked at my calendar, where I had circled June twenty-third. There was only a week of actual classes left, then it was time for finals, prom and GRADUATION!
Finals would be a breeze for me. I still wasn’t sure if I was going to go to prom because I didn’t have a date. I lost out valedictorian to Billy but I was salutatorian, so all in all things were going really well. If I could just make it past this next week and a half, maybe I could get to college and ditch this nerdy rep I had. I hated it and it had followed me for four years. I was tired of being “Nicky the Nerd.” I had decided that when I went to college, I would go by Stephen, my first name. I was named after my uncle and to avoid confusion, my parents called me by my middle n
