Boring teachers. Bullshit poseurs. Anorexic best friends. Surely you remember the joys of high school as if they were yesterday! Cartoonist Miss Lasko-Gross certainly does, and in her semi-autobiographical A Mess of Everything, she writes about her own high-school years with affectionately brutal honesty. In this story, 15-year-old Melissa sneaks out of the house and learns to be a little more discerning in her make-out partners.

Vulture's Comics Page is proud to present an exclusive story from A Mess of Everything, the second volume in the trilogy of graphic novels Miss Lasko-Gross began with Escape From "Special." A Mess of Everything comes out today from Fantagraphics.