You're Not From Around Here, pt. 2

This is part 2 of my serialized short story feature this June, "You're Not From Around Here".

His sister and I were not the most likely of friends at our high school.  I was a pariah of a kind, a little too smart and unfriendly for my own good, and convinced that not only was I better than these people, I would always be better than them. And by "these people" I mean my whole town. It was not the sort of position you launched a successful high school social life from—it was not even the real ...