The talents that a short time ago won you admiration from your friends, the winsome qualities that led the fourteen boys including the set of twins to ask you to the dance, have become irrelevant. No matter how hard you work, you find yourself sliding down the social hierarchy, while other girls—quiet, skinny, pretty (impossibly pretty, a phrase from Teen magazine, which you have recently begun reading, devouring its beauty tips)—are making their ascent.
