Chapter 10
For the first time in her life, Anne was relieved when school started. Not because the classes were a little better than the year before, though they were. Having an art class and a music class made a huge difference, choices she finally had getting into middle school.
She didn’t even mind getting up so early, not as long as she got to sleep in plenty of time. The whole summer seemed like an effort to stay up as late as she could for some reason, with her body in an ongoing rebellion.
That disruption did have benefits, with Anne noticing a few changes she’d started to despair of ever happening. A few stray hairs in her armpits and lower down. A hint that she may actually need a bra at some point in her life. Increasingly oily skin and a few pimples around her nose seemed like
