Main Character

Melinda suffers of living alone, because she is the most unpopular pupil at the high-school. She doesn’t fit in any group or clan. She needs a lot of time to trust Rachel and tell her about what happened at the party, she might does it to save Rachel from Andy. Even though Rachel doesn’t believe her she has now more self esteem. She is very good at defending herself that’s why she holds a sharp shard at Andy’s neck.

Melinda has only two friends who are David and Heather. She likes David because he is very brilliant and because he is a kind of “rebel”. David also likes her which could be seen when he helped Melinda with her Presentation.
Heather likes her because Melinda was the only person who was nice to her and talked to her. But after a few weeks she tells her to go away because she thinks that they are too different.

Her mom and her dad aren’t too caring. They just don’t talk enough with their child. My impression is that she feels disregarded. She’s only a few people left who she could call friends. There’s Heather, who cancels the friendship, and there’s her lab partner, who was named David Pertaki and last but not least her art teacher Mister Freeman. Mister Freeman is a very sensitive man, she feels kind of secure when she’s close to him. Her connection to the other teachers isn’t that good. In fact she hates her history teacher. He’s making a problem out of everything. Her English teacher, who’s called hair-woman by Melinda, is weird.

Also the teachers do not notice Melinda. They are not friendly especially Mr. Neck is very hostile to her. Except Mr. Freeman likes and speaks with her because he notices very soon what is up with her. That is reason why Melinda’s best mark is in art and in all other subjects she gets very bad marks.

© Markus Lampert