Notes Day 1

Vocabulary

Periphery: The outer limits or edge of an area or object. A marginal or secondary position in, or part or aspect of, a group, subject, or sphere of activity.
Tentative: Not certain or fixed; provisional. Done without confidence; hesitant.
Mellower (mellow): (of a person’s character) softened or matured by age or experience. (especially of sound, taste, and color) pleasantly smooth or soft; free from harshness.
Berate: scold or criticize (someone) angrily.
IM'd (informal): Past tense of instant message, basically sending someone a instant message or direct message.
Chastise: rebuke or reprimand severely.
Rebuke: Express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or actions.
Exhilarated: Very happy, animated, or elated.

Main protaginist, who is unknown, somehow has the ability to be in another person’s body, for a day.
His ability has some traits:
- Only people that are the same age as him, are the people that he possess.
- He can access facts of the people he is in, but not feelings.
The protaginist has been like this for the past 16 years, show evident in this line:
- Sixteen years is a lot of time to practice. I don’t usually make mistakes.
Background of the protaginist
- He’s hurt people with his unknown power before.
- I’ve harmed people’s lives in the past, every time I slip up, it haunts me. So I try to be careful.
- A loner? With interesting ideals.
- I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.
He’s now in Justin’s body, talking to his girlfriend, Rhiannon, and is different than Justin, which is mean and instead is nice to her.