Speak 1-100

Speak starts with Melinda going back to school her freshman year. She’s always been the popular, fun-loving girl that everybody likes. This year, however, is a little different. Everybody hates her. All of her friends from last year won’t talk to her, and she never talks at all. She’s a complete social outcast because she busted a party. At the biggest party of the summer, she called the cops, and everyone hates her for it. Now she’s back to school, and she’s doing terribly. She has one friend, Heather. She’s doing badly in all of her classes, except art. In art, her subject for the year is “trees.” She has to figure out how to portray a tree realistically and artistically. The only thing she can tolerate in her school is her lab partner, David Petrakis. She thinks he’s interesting because he’s not afraid to argue with the teachers and get in trouble for it. He speaks his mind.