[ WP ] An excerpt from the most cliché young adult novel

I've been told that I'm brave, attractive and useful, but they do n't know that inside I'm empty. Empty like our food cupboards since my dad died. He was the only one in the universe that knew me. That truly knew me. Except for the girl down the road. Despite her faults of having lips that are *too* luscious and hair that falls *too* perfectly, I like her. She gets me. 
 
 Everything in my life was fine enough, I guess ( except for dad dying ) until the government started meddling in our lives. I wanted to stay home and be a normal kid without a dad but we had to start fighting back. We had to... we had to.
