Chapter 1

I've always been pretty 'different' when I think about it. I shouldn't have been so surprised by all of this when I know that I'm not like everybody else. But yet somehow being different suddenly feels like a bad thing.

I'm Ivory Chester. This year, my final year of high school, everything I though I knew about myself seems to have changed. It's funny how small changes in your life, like the people you spend time with, can change your entire life. The way small incidents have the ability to change your future, such as a dentist appointment, or forgetting an umbrella.

Or even being caught waiting in the rain.