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Wanna know a secret?
Whether you really want to or not, I’m gonna tell you anyway, ’cus y’all can’t just pop into the book and tell everyone about it. Ha! So I have this stalker called Greig Smirnov? Yeah, I guess that’s what the name was. So, anyway, this Smirnov guy has been stalking me ever since I was… born. Terribly bizarre, huh?
But that’s the least of my worries now, as we have moved to Nashville, Indiana, from Minnesota, joined Phoenix High, met the annoying – I mean amazing – Mr. Horace Sparrow, but we just call him Sparrow, and yeah, my best pal, Richie Marsh! We’re like soap and lotion. Yeah, I know that’s a weird simile… Is it even a simile? Nevermind!
Okay, then we met Amber Letters somewhat two months after we reached the 10th grade, and there’s something I need to tell you. I felt some tension between Amber and Richie soon after. You think they’re gonna get together? I won’t ruin your inquisitiveness, so you gotta find out on your own. And don’t ask me in person ’cus I might just get really exhilarated and blurt out what happened!
And now, we’re having a summer break and I’m gonna be an 11th-grader in two and a half months. Stay tuned with us to find out whether my identity gets revealed (which I hope doesn’t happen by the grace of Providence but I dunno!) and if that stalker actually finds us!
I gotta go now. We’re currently in Keys, Florida, and I gotta go surfing with Rich. And read the book, okay? Or you’re… grounded. For three weeks! I’m kidding! I can’t even ground a frickin’ cricket. Just… read the book… even if you don’t like it. I gotta say the author’s got a really bad sense of humour!
Alright then! See ya!
Aakanskha Borthakur
Aakanskha Borthakur, 15, is a fiction writer and the author of Watson and Alice series. She is an 11th grader, studying at Miles Bronson Residential School. She has been writing short anecdotes ever since she was about eight, and her professional writing career started with Watson and Alice (written at 13 years of age), a series. Then she wrote her second book, Journey to Atlantis, and then a sequel to Watson and Alice.
She recently got fascinated by American sitcoms, and the first-ever sitcom she watched and got inspired by was Boy Meets World (1993 – 2000), and then its spin-off, Girl Meets World (2014 – 2017). This is when she thought of writing comedy series as well and this, Will Carpenter, has been, until now, her most tedious work, and also the first sitcom ever. But then she was also stirred by other shows like The Wonder Years (1988 – 1993) and That ’70s Show (1998 – 2006). Disney sitcoms also enthused her a lot.
These sitcoms were what encouraged her to make her very own sitcom, Will Carpenter, which would probably have three seasons. This is the first season and her fourth book, and she anticipates getting positive reviews from this.
