Book excerpt: Tonea Melvin gets home from a hard day at school. She looks to one of her many talents, writing, as an outlet to get any emotional stress out. She decides to pick up a pencil, get some paper and starts to just writing about herself. She realizes that she has a story that she is finally willing to let out, and is going to use the many poems and short stories to help portray everything she wants her audience to know. This 15-year-old sophomore rediscovers herself while going into deep details about herself using her most powerful talent.