Chapter 30 : Proud of You

Ash's POV "y=−2x+4." "What?" I looked up from where I was writing the second to last draft of 'So Spoke The Space Man' for the school's paper. It was a little disconcerting and a whole lot bewildering to look at Kenny when my mind was full of Thomas Bixby, my leading man. It was not hard to notice that with my growing crush on the greaser, some similarities between the two (mostly physical, but a touch of his smart-ass charm too) had drifted into my prose. Most of the girls in school had been writing back to the newspaper's fan letter section about Thomas, once or twice even giving us fan art. This last section of the anthology was quite the hit, and it was even having the added benefit of making folks more accepting of me regardless of my casteless status. Sure, the majority of people still treated me like trash, but Billie was always quick to come to my defense. But, now I had people like Gwen H and Marty McMullen Ms. Collins had been right, perhaps peo