Chapter I
"Everybody sing 'Hallelujah'! School's almost done!" Isis shouted as she got out of the car. She ran to the front of the school where everyone was waiting to go in. Her friend, Dina, waved to her to show where she was. Isis had to push herself through a bunch of other tenth graders to get through to her.
"Excuse me. Sorry. Coming through here!" Isis might have said this at least five times before she was able to reach Dina. Isis straightened her hair out when Dina spoke.
"Can you believe it's only a week before school's out?" Dina said cheerfully.
"Five more days of Hell, Dina. Blow your horn," Isis joked as she put her hair tie back in. "And before I have a blonde moment, I need to tell you that I'm not going to be able to sleepover at your place. Papa made plans to go to the lake for a day."
"Crap!" Dina screamed. "How come every time I make plans with you, your dad comes up with something else?"
"I don't know, but he said you could come if you wanted."
"Thank you!" Dina tackled Isis with a hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'll tell my mom!"
"No problem," Isis gasped. "You're kinda choking me."
"My bad." Dina let go of Isis. Both girls looked across the lawn and noticed the two most stuck up girls of the school; Jessie and Julie, twin brunettes until Jessie decided to dye her hair blonde. They were flirting with the senior boys and acting like total sluts.
"Can you believe them?" Dina said. "I bet that if the smart kids were popular, they'd be all over us."
"Yeah, well apparently seniors don't like the girls who have a sense of humor. And not even the ones who are going to make real money (she had shouted the words towards the twins) when they grow up. Not the kind of money they have at strip clubs. Can you say 'prostitute'?"
They looked back over and noticed Julie kissing a boy. Typical skank.
"This world is so screwed if girls like these are giving women a bad name," Isis sighed.
"Straight up," Dina agreed. Before the two friends could gossip like old women, the school bell rang and Isis betted five bucks that she could make it before Dina.
The week had felt like the entire school year, but the teachers slacked off and gave everyone a free day. Dina and Isis were the kids in the back of the room that wanted nothing to do with the kids who were more popular than them, which seemed to be half of the tenth grade. On the final day, Isis felt like she would explode. For the last hour she had been staring at the clock, wishing it would hurry up. Her friend was sitting next to her, squeezing her hand.
"I think I'm imagining it, but the second hand stops every ten seconds," Dina joked.
"Don't tease about that, please," Isis gasped.
Two more hellish minutes.
The adrenaline was kicking in and Isis felt like she had to run. She looked over and saw Dina shaking like she stuck herself in the freezer.
One minute more.
She started tapping her fingers on the desk and then realized that she was drumming to the beat of William Tell Overture. How ironic is that?
Ten…nine…eight…
He played knick-knack on my gate.
Seven…six…five…
"Come on, you stupid clock!" Dina whispered harshly.
Four…three!…two!…
"ONE!" the girls screamed. All eyes looked at them for half a second and realized that school was out. They grabbed their things and rushed out the door. Isis grabbed Dina's free arm and ran out into the swarm of students before the teacher could catch them and discuss their outburst just then.
"My mom said yes!" Dina shouted in the roar of the crowd. "I got my stuff at the main office, so I'm riding the bus home with you!"
"Awesome! I'll see you on 446!" Isis shouted back as Dina took a left turn to the front to grab her suitcase and she went the opposite way to the loading zone. She waited for about five minutes when Dina finally got on the bus with her suitcase and sat next to Isis.
"We're only gone for a day!" Isis said. "How much stuff do you have in there?"
"Sorry, I don't have a smaller suitcase. I got PJ's, toothbrush and paste, clothes for tomorrow, shower products, and a bathing suit. I didn't know if you guys were going to swim or not."
"We are, so you had a good hunch. We're also going hiking in the mountains past the lake."
"I hope we don't get-"
Isis covered Dina's mouth. "Don't jinx it."
xXx
Isis: *cabbage patch* Oh yeah! Uh-huh! It's summa!
Dina: Are you kidding me, Isis? This is what we need...*turns on radio*
Radio: ...the Casper Slide, Part 2. And this time, we're gonna get funky...
Isis: HELL YEAH!
Brianna: To all the people out there, Isis has got to be the crazy side of me. Just lettin' ya know.
Isis: *doing the Cha Cha Slide* Get with it, Bri!
Brianna: You do not want to see me dance!
Dina: The steps are in the song for God's sake; come on!
Brianna: Sadly, they talked me into it...Sorry...
