Gladys began to read the note. "I wish that I would start to take on the aspects of the person I know that I most want to be like." She frowned and crumpled it up and threw it away. What sort of a joke was that?
She thought about the question. Who did she know who she wanted to be like the most?
She answered herself immediately. Jennifer Taylor, the band geek. Next to Jay Duncan and Kyla Leeson, she was the most popular of all the geeks. And that was the social group Gladys preferred to be part of, over anything else.
Jennifer was well-liked, outgoing, really into theater and band ... basically everything that Gladys wasn't.
As Gladys thought about Jennifer, she began to wonder why she never joined the band or at least the orchestra. Truth be told, she was never eager to play an instrument and her weight problem caused her to overexert herself. But now she felt different about it, for some reason.
"Maybe I should try it out," she said to herself. It wouldn't have hurt just to try. Right?
She headed off to class, feeling strangely confident about what her mind would normally tell her was a bad idea.
