First 52 pages of Uglies

In the beginning of this book, this young girl, Tally Youngblood, is desperate to talk to her newly turned "pretty" friend who deserted her right after his operation. He always promised her they would be best friends forever and that his surgery would never change their blood oath. So when he leaves her on her own after his sixteenth, she is left feeling dejected and alone. In order to make sure her friend, Peris, is still ok she decides to crash the pretty party he is attending. When she finds him, he is not the same enthusiastic person he was when he was ugly. Desperate to make him happy, Tally promised to not do anything too stupid so they can be together when she turns sixteen also and cannot wait to join him in his new world. Then on her escape from the cops at the party, she encounters another ugly who would become her best friend in a matter of days. They spend all their time togehter pulling tricks and end up having the same birthday so they can be made pretty together without worrying about time separated when it comes time to be made pretty. Its when Tally is beginning to get excited about turning pretty that Shay makes her feelings known that maybe she doesn't want to be like everyone else and to actually be herself and not some generated idea of what society wants her to be like. The two have a little fight over it but not too big of a deal between the two friends. Then at the end of page 52 Shay decides to show Tally the "Rusty Ruins" which are outside of the city and completely unknown to her. Tally was looking forward to the adventure with her new friend although she was also a little skeptic about it.