Book Review: "Speak"
Betrayed. Abandoned. Isolated from all her old friends. All because she tried to speak. The summer before her freshman year, Melinda was with her friend at their very first high school party. She had a couple drinks and met a cute boy. They went for a little walk and he started to kiss her. They were in the woods and that kiss turned into something more. Melinda knew that something was wrong. She kept saying no, but things happened. He hurt her. All she could think of was telling someone. She ran back to the party and called the cops. She didn't say anything, she couldn't but the police found her location and busted the party. She was then hated from that moment. She was ridiculed by all her friends and eventually didn't talk to anybody. Eventually she spoke up to her friend about all of it. She spoke up.