Tally Youngblood, the protagonist in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, has just entered the Smoke and has a choice to make: activate the heart pendant (a tracking device that is activated only by scanning Tally's eye) and lead Special Circumstances to the Smoke and destroy their way of life, or stay and live here with her friend Shay and remain an ugly. Tally cannot choose quite yet and ends up stalling her decision, and with each day, the decision becomes more difficult to make.
First, Tally must convince the people of the Smoke that she is not a spy,
even though she kinda is a spy. The people are suspicious of everybody, but
since Tally came alone, they are convinced that she had help from the city.
Then, as Tally is about to tell Shay the truth, Shay butts in with an idea that
the heart pendant is from a lover that Tally met in the city before running
away. Tally goes along with the lie. At the same time, Shay's crush, David,
seems to be falling for Tally. As Tally is about to tell David the truth of her
arrival, David confides an important secret in her. Tally waits longer. Later,
David takes Tally to meet his parents. His parents were doctors and reversed
their "pretty" surgery. His parents tell her about their discovery of
lesions found on the brains of the pretties that did not hold jobs requiring
quick thinking. This is another secret that most of the people in the Smoke do
not know until later in life, and yet Tally, a newcomer, is being entrusted
with this knowledge. As Tally and David go back to the center of the forest
they call home, Tally and David kiss. Tally has firmly decided that she will
not betray the people of the Smoke and cannot tell anybody about Special
Circumstances. The morning after Tally burns the heart pendant, Special
Circumstances shows up and chaos breaks loose.
P.S. The internet is not always my friend. It took me a half hour to get it to let me post this! 
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