The two boys walk away and Kimi watches in amazement, shocked that they were just talking to one of the most popular guys in school, while Emily wipes off her hand.Īpproached by a magazine wishing to highlight the school's top two swim athletes, Emily and her rival Dominique, Emily is praised in the article and is made out to be a celebrity. Ben, who had been talking earlier about feeling nothing but boredom and unhappiness, smiles and laughs. Mortified, Emily attempts to make up an explanation, stating that she had burned her hand on a beaker in chemistry class and the yogurt helped. He points out that she has her hand dunked into a bowl of yogurt. Ben walks by her table until he looks at her and slows to a stop.
Overhearing a conversation taking place between him and his friend Spencer that he wouldn't be with a girl that ate that much, Emily hides the big lunch she had been packed under the table. Embarrassed for most of the class, she moves onto lunch with her friend Kimi where she first meets Ben Kale, a cute and popular junior in her school. Befriending a student, she is then given directions to the correct classroom before realizing that the student was the teacher of the class.
Still struggling to come to terms with her loss, Emily attends her first day of classes wearing Sara's baggy sweater and is late to her first class of the year. The hit mobile game Surviving High School comes to life in an original novel about perfection, failure, and following your dreams.Įmily comes into the high school after an summer full of grief and swimming. Maybe the secret to surviving high school is just to have a little fun. Maybe there is more to life than studying and swimming. When the pressure builds to the point where Emily isn't sure she can stay afloat, she begins to question the strict path her life has always followed. Emily can't resist his smile no matter how hard she tries. Shark #2: The adorable and popular Ben Kale. Shark #1: Dominique, her biggest competition on the swim team and all-around mean girl. But walking the crowded maze of unfamiliar high school hallways is like diving headfirst into shark-infested waters. All she has to do is keep her grades high and swim times short - short enough to live up to her sister Sara's. She eats, sleeps and trains for competitive swimming. Emily Kessler thinks she has it all figured out.
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