Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach EPUB & PDF

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• Authors: Michelle Quach
• Language: English
• Genre: Teen & Young Adult Romantic Comedy
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I SHARE A BEDROOM WITH MY OLDER SISTER KIM, which
wouldn’t be a problem except she has this habit of making a face whenever
I walk in.
“That’s what you’re wearing?” She points her mascara wand at me, the
disbelief thick enough to flake off.
“It’s fine.” I push up my sleeves and they fall right back down again.
“Don’t worry about it.”
To be fair, what I’m wearing is a big polyester sweater the exact gray of
parking-lot asphalt, and it isn’t anybody’s idea of a good look. But I don’t
care. In fact, this is basically how I dress every day. I read once that a lot of
important people have a “uniform” to save their mental energy for things
that actually matter, so I’ve started doing it, too. Kim thinks this is a
horrible way to live.

“Isn’t today supposed to be a big deal for you?”
I flop onto my bed with a book, an Eileen Chang novel I found by
chance at the library. I like it because the main character is a Chinese girl
who’s smart but a bit prickly, which is a combination the world could really
use more of. Just a personal opinion, of course.
“Well?” Kim asks, after I’ve turned a page.
I bite into the chewy flour of my Cantonese-style sachima, which is
sweet and sticky, like a Rice Krispies treat without the marshmallows.
Then, because I can sense Kim’s impatience practically forming
condensation on my silence, I take a long sip of tea and turn another page.

“Sure,” I agree. “It’s a big deal.”
Today is the day that the staff of the Willoughby Bugle, my high school
paper, will select its new editor in chief for next year. It’s a hallowed ritual,
occurring around the same time every spring—and this year, being a junior,
I finally get to be in the running.

“So, shouldn’t you try to look better?” Kim has switched over to
penciling her eyebrows into the thick, horizontal style of K-drama heroines.
“Don’t you want people to vote for you?”
Now, I don’t believe in self-aggrandizing, never have. You’re only as
good as your facts, I like to say, in journalism and in life. Here are mine:
For almost three years, I’ve been the most prolific, hardest-working,
most no-nonsense staff member the Bugle has ever seen. I can write a
quality 750-word article in thirty minutes flat, I pitch half the stories that
make it onto the front page every month, and I’m already the current
managing editor—a position they normally give to a senior. So, no, I don’t
need people on the Bugle to vote for me just because I clean up nice.
They’re going to pick me because I’m the most sensible option. Because
literally no one else will do a better job.

And also, as it happens, because there is no one else. I’m running
unopposed.

“Since I’m the only candidate, I just need enough votes to be
confirmed,” I explain, finishing off the last bite of sachima. “It’s really
more like, you know, a Supreme Court appointment than an election.”
Kim is unconvinced. “Do you want me to at least curl your hair or
something?”

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