Post 9- Book 4 review

Dear audience,

My name is Tally. You may have heard my story before, but you have never heard what I've had to say about what happened at the smoke. Anyways I’m writing to you to give you clarity about it and even to map it all out for myself.

So I grew up in a town called Uglyville where all the uglies live before they turn pretty on their 16th birthday. My best friend growing up was Peris, we did everything together. Everything was perfect until he turned 16, became pretty and left me for two months alone in Uglyville. There was no way I would survive without my best friend for two whole months. I did. It was lonely but I managed.

 So now I'm going to skip ahead to when my life got complicated.... One night I was feeling really lonely so I decided to sneak into New Pretty town where Peris lived. Maybe if I saw him all this waiting for two more months would be worth it. Boy was I wrong! Not knowing that I would cause a scene I went anyway. Now you could probably guess this was way illegal but I had to see him soon!

 Getting into New Pretty Town was easy but seeing Peris was not. I had to wear a mask so people wouldn't see my ugly face. Once I finally found Peris he said what you would accept, and what I should have, I don't recall his exact words but it was something like “Why are you here?" or “You shouldn't be here!". Not the welcome I expected..... So after our little chat I pulled a fire alarm, bungee jumped of a skyscraper and ran from the city officials. Then things got crazy.

 While hiding under a bush I met Shay. Little did I know that I would end up betraying Shay who later became my best friend? Anyway Shay was adventurous, I was not, and she and I went far past Ugly Ville boarders to the Rusties old cities. It was the most fun I've had since Peris. We both had the same birthdays so we'd turn Pretty together1 everything was perfect... almost. One problem Shay didn't want to turn pretty ever. Why not I didn't know at the time. She had friends that lived in a place called the Smoke, a place where people lived off the land and stayed ugly forever. A week before my birthday Shay asked me to come with her to the Smoke and I refused. In case I changed my mind she left clue on how to get there.

 The day of my sixteenth birthday I was scared but super excited to turn pretty! That was the big day! Or so I thought..... I was brought to special circumstances where I saw the scariest pretties ever. They brought in to this mean old ladies room who questioned me about Shay who had disappeared. Great. I told them that we had left the city but never had we gone to the smoke. They said only if I helped them that I would ever become pretty or stay ugly for the rest of my life.

 What should I have done? If I could go back and change the decision I made to help the pretties I would. But what ended up happening is that I traveled to the Smoke, almost killed myself, fell for David, and betrayed people who had become my family. They trusted me; he trusted me. Now I don’t think ill ever see them again or even if I do they will never forgive me for leading the government to the Smoke.

When I got to the smoke I feel in love with it. Everyone and everything was full of life, live, and the spirt that you would never see in the city. So I destroyed the pendent the government gave me and it set of a tracking signal to uglyville.

I betrayed them, but before I had a change of heart. It doesn’t matter what happened and I just hope someday they will forgive me. Especially David.  So there you have it my story. I am now in a government jet watching the people and place I had come to love suffer.