Nerd Tacos

Hazel Grace -Alison Pill (I realize she is 26 and Hazel is 16, but she’s got a baby face that plays teenagers well)

Augustus Water - Mathew Lewis (yes…Neville Longbottom)

Isiac - Christopher Mintz-Plasse (he will be as UN-Mc Lovin as possible)

Peter Vanhouten - Philip Seymor-Hoffman

Patrick - David Tennant (just cause)

Hazel’s mom - Laura Liney (because she just sounds perfect for the role)

Hazel’s Dad - Kevin Nealon

Kaitlyn - Anna Kendrick

Brief Summery: 

A small, peaceful, and very devout native american tribe acquire the needs to start a business for any travelers coming their way on the trail westward. The tribe learns the ways of decadency, but when money and supplies run short, anyone is willing to do anything to keep their comfortable ways. They’ll sell their bodies, dignity, and faith in order to keep their status quo.

When I was in Jr High, I was known for being three things. One was being the class clown, second was having an extremely low GPA, and the third was that I had a huge crush on a girl named Daisy. She was pretty, kind, and sat next to me in a lot of my classes.

So as a question to my readers, do you ever have a time when you plan something out, and you think it’d going to be amazing but when it happens it’s not even close to the suave Sean Connery smoothness you imagined it to be? It happens to the best of us sadly. Well one day I saw Daisy from across the quad and I just wanted to desperately walk to her and ask her out, but I knew, and still know that if I had done that, the answer would have been no. So I came up with a brilliant idea that actually turned out to be a horribly stupid idea. 

My mother had this very pretty and very expensive gold bracelet with sapphires all around it every 1/4 inch. I looked at it and I had imagined in my head me sitting next to Daisy one day and giving her a beautiful piece of jewelry and telling her that I love her, and suddenly we’d be going out and the planets would align and Gore would have won instead of Bush and just everything in the world would have gone right for once. So I stole the bracelet from my mom and took it to school one day.

As I sat down next to her, I suddenly saw every flaw in my plan at once. So all my confidence was just GONE. Out the window, far the fuck away from Dale Jr High. So I thought i’d look at Daisy and say something overly romantic like “I love you, and I want you to take this as a token of my love”.

Instead I spoke in lowest monotone voice while looking at the ground where her feet were and said “Hey…I found this, you want it?”

To which she said “Oh, thanks. Thats really pretty.” Then she smiled at me, and got back to her work. I failed miserably! Which honestly, the plan was doomed to fail from the start.

The next week or so after, my mom asked me a question. “Do you know where my sapphire bracelet when?” I was so nervous, so I lied. I said I hadn’t seen it in a long time. This was also a time when my mom and step dad were going through as nasty divorce. I said that maybe my step dad came and took it back when we weren’t home, because he had done stuff like that before. She believed me, and actually wrote “stole jewelry” on her divorce forms when they took it to court.

TO THIS DAY, she still doesn’t know a single thing, and it’s been 8, almost 9 years since then. I’m not going to tell her until I move out of the house. There’s so much shame I associate with that day and myself. I wish I could have done all that differently, and yet again I still think it’s a pretty funny story, and John Green has kind of inspired me to embrace my awkward years because it’s something I can write about and turn into a funny story, even though there’s some terrible grammar in these paragraphs above.