1269_UgliesFreeBook

FIGHT
“Look at them all. What dorks.”
“Did we ever look like that?”
“Probably. But just because we were dorks doesn’t mean
they’re not.”
Tally nodded, trying to remember what being twelve
was like, what the dorm had looked like on her first day
there. She remembered how intimidating the building had
seemed. Much bigger than Sol and Ellie’s house, of course,
and bigger than the huts that littlies went to school in, one
teacher and ten students to each one.
Now the dorm seemed so small and claustrophobic.
Painfully childish, with its bright colors and padded stairs.
So boring during the day and easy to escape at night.
The new uglies all stuck together in a tight group,
afraid to stray too far from their guide. Their ugly little faces
peered up at the dorm’s four-story height, their eyes full of
wonder and terror.
Shay pulled her head back in through the window.
“This is going to be so fun.”