Chapter One: Just Another Day
Another day and another day to be passed by and forgotten.
“Hey Jane!” Ted smiled.
“Janet,” I replied.
Ted and his friends were always picking on me. We worked at a large publishing house, and I was one of the nerdy editors, as they called me around the water cooler.
“Whatever, plain Jane,” Ted said as he high-fived one of his friends and walked away.
“You’re Thirty-two, not thirteen!” I yelled back at him.
I couldn’t believe I was still here. It started as a job out of high school. I had been in the school newspaper and thought I would be the next prominent journalist, but that never happened. Now I was stuck behind an editor’s desk while Ted and his friends got all the significant publications.
Things had never gone right for me, not ever.
I was always the nerd, even in school, playing games with my friends in the basement or pretending to be the next superheroine. The guys always laughed at me.