Not Pretty Enough by Jaimie Admans
August 1, 2013
Contemporary YA Comedy
“New Year’s Resolutions:
1. Lloyd Layton will know I exist. He once said three whole words to me, so this is obviously progress. If I don’t get a proper conversation out of him soon, then I’ll take my top off and streak through the cafeteria, because nobody could fail to notice these boobs.
2. I will not get expelled for streaking through the cafeteria.”
Those are the words that begin her mission.
Chessie is fourteen, not pretty enough, and very much in love. Lloyd Layton is hot, popular, and unaware of Chessie’s existence.
Her goal is clear: to get Lloyd to love her as much as she loves him, and she has exactly one year to do it.
As Chessie’s obsession with Lloyd reaches boiling point and she starts to spin a web of lies that spiral out of control, Lloyd turns out to be not quite the prince she thought he was. Can Chessie avoid the gathering storm before things go too far?
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Not Pretty Enough is a contemporary young adult comedy suitable for ages thirteen and over.
Book two in the series will be released early 2014.
Excerpt
There’s a common misconception that
everyone wants big boobs. Let me tell you something: they don’t. If they’re
fourteen and have a chest bigger than most of their school, including the
teachers, they don’t. I’m a DD cup. People pay thousands of pounds to have
their boobs enlarged to be smaller than mine. I
can’t remember the last time I passed for a half fare on the bus. Or the last
time a bus driver asked my face and not my chest for the fare. Everyone notices
boobs when you’re my age. In fact, the only human in the world who doesn’t
notice them is the one person I would quite like to notice them.
Lloyd Layton.
I’d quite like
him to notice my personality too, but at this point just noticing my mere
existence will do. If I have to use my boobs to lure him in, then so be it. The
thing is, Lloyd Layton is hot, popular, and really, really tall. Taller than
everyone else in our year. Taller than the teachers. Occasionally taller than
the doorways. He knows what it’s like to be picked on for a physical attribute
you can’t control. He’s different too. He knows what it’s like to be an
outsider. Okay, when it comes to Lloyd Layton, he’s not really an outsider,
because he’s absolutely gorgeous and loads of people like him, and I doubt
anyone would dare to pick on him for anything because he could knock them
flying with one swoop of his gigantic hands. But still. He’s taller than
everyone and I have bigger boobs than everyone. We’re clearly a match made in
heaven. It’s just a shame that he can’t see it yet.
But I’m sure he
will one day soon.
I’m actually
moving closer to that goal because he said one sentence to me back in December.
One sentence.
Three small words. Not the three words I would like to hear him say, but I’ll
take what I can get.
It was the last
lesson of the last day of term before the Christmas holidays. Double
technology. Not usually something to get excited about, but we came to the
conclusion that the Christmas spirit had gone to Mr Vale’s head because he let
us watch a movie in class instead of doing any work.
The Princess Bride.
We were allowed
to pull chairs in around the TV and sit and watch a movie for two hours. Guess
who pulled his chair in not that far away from mine?
Lloyd Layton.
I don’t know
what happened next. I can’t explain it. It was like having an out of body
experience. I’ll never understand how I had the courage to do it, but halfway
through the film, I leaned over and said, “This is a good movie.” To Lloyd
Layton. Better than that, he actually replied. He said, “Yes, it is.”
Three whole
words.
It got even
better than that again because after it was over and we were putting the chairs
up on the desks, he smiled at me. A real smile. And it wasn’t at the person
behind me because I was next to a wall. He smiled at me.
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Jaimie is a 28-year-old English-sounding Welsh girl with an awkward-to-spell name. She lives in South Wales and enjoys writing, gardening, drinking tea and watching horror movies. She hates spiders and cheese & onion crisps. She has been writing for years but has never before plucked up the courage to tell people. Afterlife Academy is her third novel and she hopes you enjoy it. There are plenty more on the way!
I feel like I want to give Chessie a hug.
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