I Promise

Melinda Sparks has just lost her mother, her mentor, and her best friend. Her father has remarried a witch of a woman named Alyssa. She has to start a new school where everyone is a genius. There's a boy trying to get under her exterior because Lord knows no one in their right mind can be acting as cheerful and happy as Melinda. Melinda is terrified. She can't lose her precious balance of sanity.

For the contest A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words but is a Picture worth 10 Chapters by Khole Kardash.