Have you ever watched a film staring a teenage superhero and wondered what the other kids at their school thought: What would life be like if you went to school with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or John Smith (from I am Number Four), Percy Jackson, or even Harry Potter? Where weird stuff seems to happen when they are around, and you know they are caught up with something bigger than you are, and they are off saving the world. But somehow adults don't seem to notice.
The Rest of Us Just Live here is about those ordinary kids. The ones who know that the heroes are risking their lives, they just don't know what to do about it, and know that they are not really welcome to start asking questions.
They may not be heroes, but the problems they face, though "normal" often require just as much courage as those faced by the ones saving the world. Only, they don't have the black and white definitions of right and wrong to guide them. There are a lot of different kinds of gray out there to confuse matters.
Not to mention, on top of navigating your final year of high school, trying to work out what the future has in store for you, changing friendships and love, you need to be able to survive the apocalypse, and hope that you graduate before anyone blows up the gym.
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