1 A Parody of Life: A Halo story
Part One
Chapter One: A Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Chapter Two: Acquaintances renewed over homework
Chapter Three: Dreams of Future Things
Chapter Four: The School Equipment Gets Misused
Is it really that difficult to guess what's going to happen? Mostly not, than again… You never know for sure what's going to happen next in real life why should a story be any different?
Ever get that feeling of dread, life just before you get a geometry test back? The flutter in the pit of your stomach; the pressure on your skull so that you can hear every heart beat as you realize that life is short. That the feeling you should be getting.
Warning: Many things are really messed up in this story, but that's okay, and you know why? It's because I'm a blonde, people don't expect me to make sense, so I figure, why bother?
Halo is an ordinary girl, she goes to an ordinary school, and has ordinary friends. Most of that was true. Halo is actually a hyper active blonde who only thinks good happy thoughts, that's why she's called Halo. Her hair is short and spiked while her friend; Telinka has long blonde hair and is rather pessimistic. Halo is either really happy or confused. When something bad happens Halo looks on the bright side, either that or she goes into denial. All in all she's a funny person.
Chapter One: A Cruel and Unusual Punishment
The street shops passed by as people casually glancing out took a second look at the running figure; she had a wide smile on her face and seemed to be clutching some sort of envelope.
A laugh escaped as she spun and ran down a side street past the pizza place. She stopped skidding on the sidewalk looked in, waved, and took off running again.
"Halo!" A voice called. "Wait up!" Telinka rounded the corner scanned the street the saw her friend and took off running after her. "I can't believe this!" She muttered to herself. "Halo!" She shrieked again.
Halo stopped turned around and stuck out her tongue in a playful manner while waving the envelope over her head. "Promise you'll let me read it?" She yelled as Telinka began to catch up with her.
Telinka slowed down. "I promise." She said trying to catch her breath. "Now give it here."
Halo handed her the envelope. "Okay!" She smiled and watched her friend shove it into the backpack she was wearing. She shifted her weight on her feet waiting. Telinka didn't give her the promised letter. "Well?" She said waiting.
"Got you!" Telinka said. She turned around and walked away.
Halo laughed and followed her. "I'll get a hold of it eventually." She said knowingly.
"Will not."
"Oh yeah?"
Class the next day was boring. Halo was sitting behind the new girl, so that made something to do. Only, the new girl seemed totally zoned out.
Lara Croft, tomb raider, looked behind her, she was alone. She pulled out a gun and aimed it into the darkness before her. She heard it again. The sound… The sound of whispering!
Halo asked her again. "Do you have a pencil I could borrow?"
The girl stood up and gave a tremendous scream. "The voices!" She shrieked. "Can't you hear them?"
Halo jerked to the back of her seat with wide eyes, that was not was she had expected.
"Halo!" The nun who was teaching yelled. "What did you do to the new student?" She asked.
"I didn't to anything but ask her for a pencil." Halo said still shocked at her classmate's outburst.
The nun frowned not believing. "Likely story. It's bucket time!"
Halo stood in the hall with a pout on her face. Nothing was ever fair. She sighed, and then almost dropped her bucket as the door opened across the hall and a boy came out holding a bucket. He looked like he was her age. The door slammed behind him as another nun shut the door.
"Talk about cruel and unusual punishment." Halo said to him with a smile.
He nodded.
"What did you do?"
He shrugged.
Halo nodded sympathetically. "Yeah, me too."
He looked at her for a moment than returned his gaze to the floor. "She's weird." He thought.
Halo smiled. "Well any way, I'm glad I don't have to be alone! I like having someone to talk to."
He grunted.
Halo beamed. This was an improvement. "My name is Halo." She said sticking out her hand. "What's yours?" She asked.
He looked at her hand wondering what she was doing, and then he turned and faced the opposite end of the hall and grunted something.
"What was that?" Halo asked.
Her classroom door opened and the sister looked out angrily. "I said bucket time!"
Halo meekly laughed.
Chapter Two: Acquaintances renewed over homework
"What did you do to the new girl?" Telinka asked opening her algebra book.
Halo shrugged. She beat back the papers falling out of her over stuffed notebook that served as a binder. "I asked her if she had a pencil I could borrow, than she said something about the voices. I tell you, she's a psychopath." Halo said.
Telinka gave a short laugh.
Locke was just starting on his algebra homework to. He thought back to the events of that day. Some how he couldn't get the strange blonde haired girl out of his mind. She was so confusing; it was as if she were a little kid instead of a high school student from a precious private Catholic High School.
He was listening to Linkin Park.
Secretly he wondered what she had been kicked out of class for. The memory of his day came back to him.
Locke flicked on the lighter. It was hidden from his teacher by his textbook that was set up to make a make shift screen. The light captivated him. Suddenly an idea hit him.
The girl who sat in front had long blonde hair. Today it was in two braids that constantly ended up on his desk. He hated that.
Locke slipped one of the braids under the book. The lighter seemed to come to life.
He hadn't realized that it would smoke so much. When the girl started screaming he knew he was in trouble. The nun had sent him out of the classroom. She hadn't forbid him to talk with any one, there was usually no one in the hall to talk to, but Locke had noticed that the blonde girl was in the hall an awful lot. Not when he was sent there, but he could see her though the glass in the door. He only had one class with her.
She had said that her name was Halo. He still wondered what she had done. It couldn't have been that bad…
Halo closed the book. Telinka had finished her homework a long time ago, but Halo still had a couple problems to do. Telinka was watching television. Halo stretched, slipped the book in her backpack, and stood up pulling on the bright cartoon ornamented bag.
"Telinka!" She called.
"Upstairs!" Came the reply.
Halo made her trek up the stairs. "I'm as good as done, I think I'm going to head home. Okay?"
"Sure." Telinka said, her eyes never leaving the screen. She was learning how to make an orange desert.
Halo pushed the door open and with a last look at the enthusiastic chef headed out into the bright world. The street was mainly empty. Then she saw him.
Locke was walking down the street when the door to one of the houses door had opened and the girl walked out. He had finished homework and was headed uptown to look for some friends.
"Hey!" She called.
He stopped and nodded to acknowledge her presence.
"What are you doing here?" She asked with one of her smiles that seemed void of all intelligence.
He shrugged. He didn't really feel like talking. "What did you do?" He finally asked as she began to walk along side of him.
"What did I do?" She asked. "Do you mean what did I do to get kicked out of class?"
He nodded.
"I asked a girl for a pencil." She admitted.
She was serious.
"Well, I have to go, this is my house." She said. "It's been nice talking to you! Wait… um, what's your name?"
There was a pause. "Locke." He said. He didn't know how he could answer this one with just a grunt.
"Cool, well, see you tomorrow!" She called as she disappeared into the house.
He didn't look behind him as he headed down the street.
Chapter Three: Dreams of Future Things
"I've decided that I have fallen in love." Halo said.
Telinka gave her a look from the corner of her eyes. "You've decided this?"
"Yes." Halo said. "I have decided that I have fallen in love."
Telinka went back to eating her breakfast bar. They were on their way to school. After a while she asked the question. "With whom?"
"You know that boy that never talks?"
A couple of them came to her mind. All of them were friends and hung out in a group where they never said anything if any one who was an outside was around. It was kind of creepy.
"Yeah." She said.
"Him." Halo said.
"Why?"
"I don't know!" Halo said defensively. "Cupid I guess."
"What does your little brother have to do with this?" Telinka asked getting even more confused.
"The other one."
"You don't have another younger brother."
"The other- never mind!" Halo said. "Just forget it."
Telinka nodded as she shoved the rest of her breakfast in her already over full mouth.
"I had a strange dream last night." Halo said, trying to change the subject.
"That's cool." Telinka muttered still working on the glob of fiber.
"Yeah." Halo smiled to herself. She had liked that dream.
A mysterious mobile frame pilot rescued Halo from certain death. She could never see his face, but he had her become his co pilot and together they traveled the galaxy saving people. It had been really cool. Halo like the guy in her dream, he was so… Mobile suit pilot! How GW!
She sighed. By day, school girl, by night, mobile frame pilot. If only… Halo would like nothing better than to be a superhero.
"Why don't you become one?" Telinka asked.
Halo realized she had confessed her dream out loud. "I don't know." She admitted. "There really isn't a need for one, and I haven't got many supper talents."
Telinka shrugged. "You're really good a jump rope."
"Am not."
"You aren't."
There was a pause. "No."
"Oh." Telinka said admitting defeat. "I always thought you were."
Halo shook her head and gave another great sigh. "I don't want to go to school."
"Who knows maybe you'll see that boy who never talks."
"Yeah…"
Lara Croft, tomb raider, surveyed the opposition with hidden contempt.
The new girl surveyed Halo with open contempt. "Gees, what does she have against me?" Halo asked Telinka in a whisper.
Lara Croft, tomb raider, noted the opposition plotting to her neighbor against her, surely her demise. She casually strolled up to her and said in an offhanded manner. "Don't think." Pause for Lara to take a sip of her champagne "Don't think… I don't know."
The new girl stormed up to Halo, pointed her index finger in her face and began to scream again. "I know what you're up to! Don't think you can fool me!"
Halo stepped back surprised. "What?" She asked. "What on earth do you mean?"
The girl gave a sinister laugh. "Playing innocent huh? Well, you won't get the best of me.
Lara Croft, tomb raider, had meet worse opposition before.
"Yeah, well!" Halo paused trying to think up and appropriate come back. "You're unproportional!"
Apparently this was a touchy subject to the new girl.
Chapter Four: The School Equipment Gets Misused
The dream of being a super hero still stuck in Halo's mind. She added it to her list of things to do in life. It grew on her even more and became almost an obsession. She was never as serious before about anything that she ever wanted, besides that trip to Mt. Fuji…
Telinka gave Halo a worried look; she seemed to be drifting away from the class again. Halo's eyes had glazed over and held a vacant expression as they stared plastered on her emotionless face holding the consciousness of a child watching television.
The eyelids seemed to grow heavier, and slowly, so very slowly sank into the folds of the shadowed bags that had formed under her eyes. As this happened she began to sink, just as slowly into her seat growing smaller and smaller until all that was left was a head resting on a desk emitting a small puddle of drool.
Telinka feared that if she startled Halo that she would fall out of the desk completely or become surprised enough to draw he teacher's attention.
Telinka thought for a brief second trying to decide what she should do in a delicate case as this. Unfortunately this brief second was all to brief and before she had a chance to respond the new girl began to shriek sending Halo out of her slumber and onto the floor.
The world began to focus around Halo. She was sitting on the floor. She was under a desk. The desk was in the foreign language classroom. The desk belonged to her. She shouldn't be sitting on the floor in this particular class. Halo jumped back into her desk just as the pain in her tusk registered.
Thankfully the teacher wasn't paying any attention to Halo's location; instead she was attending to the new girl who was screaming something about genetically engineered dinosaurs coming after her.
In fact this particular display seemed to have captured the attention of most of the people in the class. Halo regarded it as nothing out of the ordinary. She was more experienced with the new girl.
This made it so that no one in the class noticed a face at the door except Halo. No one; except for Halo, noticed the boy push the door completely open and walk in. To Halo it was obvious that he wanted to speak with the teacher. She stood up, waited for him to notice her, and to her surprise he did.
He looked at her.
She looked at him.
It was him… the boy who never spoke. They silently looked at each other and Halo felt an immense feeling of ecstasy. The boy who never talked was looking at her. Then she realized that he rest of the class was as well. They had transferred their attention from the new girl. She didn't know where the new girl was until a desk hit her head from behind and she sank onto the floor unconscious.
The new girl began to shriek about how she had taken her revenge. Halo didn't see or hear this. Nor did she see the expression of the boy who never spoke's face.
Did he care? No one knows but him.
When Halo awoke for the second time that class period she was surrounded by a circle consisting of classmates, her teacher, and the school nurse. The boy was gone, or at least she didn't see him. In fact she was having trouble seeing much of anything.
Telinka stared apathetically at Halo; seeing that her friend was alive she turned away to get a head start on today's homework.
One of the gushers in Halo's class started to cry again and one of her gusher friends gave her a hug, then they began to cry together.
Halo couldn't see the new girl and for a brief moment she wondered if the boy who never spoke had run off with her, but after Telinka moved the could see that she was climbing out a window, while gnawing on the curtains…
In other words nothing seemed to be unusual, At least that was what Halo thought than.
Later when Halo would look back in her life (more specifically a chapter or two from now) she would realize that this was the turning point in her life. Until that point she had been a normal girl. A normal girl with a normal life… A normal girl, who got a desk thrown at her in class that would forever change her life, or at least effect it for a while.
Part One
Chapter One: A Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Chapter Two: Acquaintances renewed over homework
Chapter Three: Dreams of Future Things
Chapter Four: The School Equipment Gets Misused
Is it really that difficult to guess what's going to happen? Mostly not, than again… You never know for sure what's going to happen next in real life why should a story be any different?
Ever get that feeling of dread, life just before you get a geometry test back? The flutter in the pit of your stomach; the pressure on your skull so that you can hear every heart beat as you realize that life is short. That the feeling you should be getting.
Warning: Many things are really messed up in this story, but that's okay, and you know why? It's because I'm a blonde, people don't expect me to make sense, so I figure, why bother?
Halo is an ordinary girl, she goes to an ordinary school, and has ordinary friends. Most of that was true. Halo is actually a hyper active blonde who only thinks good happy thoughts, that's why she's called Halo. Her hair is short and spiked while her friend; Telinka has long blonde hair and is rather pessimistic. Halo is either really happy or confused. When something bad happens Halo looks on the bright side, either that or she goes into denial. All in all she's a funny person.
Chapter One: A Cruel and Unusual Punishment
The street shops passed by as people casually glancing out took a second look at the running figure; she had a wide smile on her face and seemed to be clutching some sort of envelope.
A laugh escaped as she spun and ran down a side street past the pizza place. She stopped skidding on the sidewalk looked in, waved, and took off running again.
"Halo!" A voice called. "Wait up!" Telinka rounded the corner scanned the street the saw her friend and took off running after her. "I can't believe this!" She muttered to herself. "Halo!" She shrieked again.
Halo stopped turned around and stuck out her tongue in a playful manner while waving the envelope over her head. "Promise you'll let me read it?" She yelled as Telinka began to catch up with her.
Telinka slowed down. "I promise." She said trying to catch her breath. "Now give it here."
Halo handed her the envelope. "Okay!" She smiled and watched her friend shove it into the backpack she was wearing. She shifted her weight on her feet waiting. Telinka didn't give her the promised letter. "Well?" She said waiting.
"Got you!" Telinka said. She turned around and walked away.
Halo laughed and followed her. "I'll get a hold of it eventually." She said knowingly.
"Will not."
"Oh yeah?"
Class the next day was boring. Halo was sitting behind the new girl, so that made something to do. Only, the new girl seemed totally zoned out.
Lara Croft, tomb raider, looked behind her, she was alone. She pulled out a gun and aimed it into the darkness before her. She heard it again. The sound… The sound of whispering!
Halo asked her again. "Do you have a pencil I could borrow?"
The girl stood up and gave a tremendous scream. "The voices!" She shrieked. "Can't you hear them?"
Halo jerked to the back of her seat with wide eyes, that was not was she had expected.
"Halo!" The nun who was teaching yelled. "What did you do to the new student?" She asked.
"I didn't to anything but ask her for a pencil." Halo said still shocked at her classmate's outburst.
The nun frowned not believing. "Likely story. It's bucket time!"
Halo stood in the hall with a pout on her face. Nothing was ever fair. She sighed, and then almost dropped her bucket as the door opened across the hall and a boy came out holding a bucket. He looked like he was her age. The door slammed behind him as another nun shut the door.
"Talk about cruel and unusual punishment." Halo said to him with a smile.
He nodded.
"What did you do?"
He shrugged.
Halo nodded sympathetically. "Yeah, me too."
He looked at her for a moment than returned his gaze to the floor. "She's weird." He thought.
Halo smiled. "Well any way, I'm glad I don't have to be alone! I like having someone to talk to."
He grunted.
Halo beamed. This was an improvement. "My name is Halo." She said sticking out her hand. "What's yours?" She asked.
He looked at her hand wondering what she was doing, and then he turned and faced the opposite end of the hall and grunted something.
"What was that?" Halo asked.
Her classroom door opened and the sister looked out angrily. "I said bucket time!"
Halo meekly laughed.
Chapter Two: Acquaintances renewed over homework
"What did you do to the new girl?" Telinka asked opening her algebra book.
Halo shrugged. She beat back the papers falling out of her over stuffed notebook that served as a binder. "I asked her if she had a pencil I could borrow, than she said something about the voices. I tell you, she's a psychopath." Halo said.
Telinka gave a short laugh.
Locke was just starting on his algebra homework to. He thought back to the events of that day. Some how he couldn't get the strange blonde haired girl out of his mind. She was so confusing; it was as if she were a little kid instead of a high school student from a precious private Catholic High School.
He was listening to Linkin Park.
Secretly he wondered what she had been kicked out of class for. The memory of his day came back to him.
Locke flicked on the lighter. It was hidden from his teacher by his textbook that was set up to make a make shift screen. The light captivated him. Suddenly an idea hit him.
The girl who sat in front had long blonde hair. Today it was in two braids that constantly ended up on his desk. He hated that.
Locke slipped one of the braids under the book. The lighter seemed to come to life.
He hadn't realized that it would smoke so much. When the girl started screaming he knew he was in trouble. The nun had sent him out of the classroom. She hadn't forbid him to talk with any one, there was usually no one in the hall to talk to, but Locke had noticed that the blonde girl was in the hall an awful lot. Not when he was sent there, but he could see her though the glass in the door. He only had one class with her.
She had said that her name was Halo. He still wondered what she had done. It couldn't have been that bad…
Halo closed the book. Telinka had finished her homework a long time ago, but Halo still had a couple problems to do. Telinka was watching television. Halo stretched, slipped the book in her backpack, and stood up pulling on the bright cartoon ornamented bag.
"Telinka!" She called.
"Upstairs!" Came the reply.
Halo made her trek up the stairs. "I'm as good as done, I think I'm going to head home. Okay?"
"Sure." Telinka said, her eyes never leaving the screen. She was learning how to make an orange desert.
Halo pushed the door open and with a last look at the enthusiastic chef headed out into the bright world. The street was mainly empty. Then she saw him.
Locke was walking down the street when the door to one of the houses door had opened and the girl walked out. He had finished homework and was headed uptown to look for some friends.
"Hey!" She called.
He stopped and nodded to acknowledge her presence.
"What are you doing here?" She asked with one of her smiles that seemed void of all intelligence.
He shrugged. He didn't really feel like talking. "What did you do?" He finally asked as she began to walk along side of him.
"What did I do?" She asked. "Do you mean what did I do to get kicked out of class?"
He nodded.
"I asked a girl for a pencil." She admitted.
She was serious.
"Well, I have to go, this is my house." She said. "It's been nice talking to you! Wait… um, what's your name?"
There was a pause. "Locke." He said. He didn't know how he could answer this one with just a grunt.
"Cool, well, see you tomorrow!" She called as she disappeared into the house.
He didn't look behind him as he headed down the street.
Chapter Three: Dreams of Future Things
"I've decided that I have fallen in love." Halo said.
Telinka gave her a look from the corner of her eyes. "You've decided this?"
"Yes." Halo said. "I have decided that I have fallen in love."
Telinka went back to eating her breakfast bar. They were on their way to school. After a while she asked the question. "With whom?"
"You know that boy that never talks?"
A couple of them came to her mind. All of them were friends and hung out in a group where they never said anything if any one who was an outside was around. It was kind of creepy.
"Yeah." She said.
"Him." Halo said.
"Why?"
"I don't know!" Halo said defensively. "Cupid I guess."
"What does your little brother have to do with this?" Telinka asked getting even more confused.
"The other one."
"You don't have another younger brother."
"The other- never mind!" Halo said. "Just forget it."
Telinka nodded as she shoved the rest of her breakfast in her already over full mouth.
"I had a strange dream last night." Halo said, trying to change the subject.
"That's cool." Telinka muttered still working on the glob of fiber.
"Yeah." Halo smiled to herself. She had liked that dream.
A mysterious mobile frame pilot rescued Halo from certain death. She could never see his face, but he had her become his co pilot and together they traveled the galaxy saving people. It had been really cool. Halo like the guy in her dream, he was so… Mobile suit pilot! How GW!
She sighed. By day, school girl, by night, mobile frame pilot. If only… Halo would like nothing better than to be a superhero.
"Why don't you become one?" Telinka asked.
Halo realized she had confessed her dream out loud. "I don't know." She admitted. "There really isn't a need for one, and I haven't got many supper talents."
Telinka shrugged. "You're really good a jump rope."
"Am not."
"You aren't."
There was a pause. "No."
"Oh." Telinka said admitting defeat. "I always thought you were."
Halo shook her head and gave another great sigh. "I don't want to go to school."
"Who knows maybe you'll see that boy who never talks."
"Yeah…"
Lara Croft, tomb raider, surveyed the opposition with hidden contempt.
The new girl surveyed Halo with open contempt. "Gees, what does she have against me?" Halo asked Telinka in a whisper.
Lara Croft, tomb raider, noted the opposition plotting to her neighbor against her, surely her demise. She casually strolled up to her and said in an offhanded manner. "Don't think." Pause for Lara to take a sip of her champagne "Don't think… I don't know."
The new girl stormed up to Halo, pointed her index finger in her face and began to scream again. "I know what you're up to! Don't think you can fool me!"
Halo stepped back surprised. "What?" She asked. "What on earth do you mean?"
The girl gave a sinister laugh. "Playing innocent huh? Well, you won't get the best of me.
Lara Croft, tomb raider, had meet worse opposition before.
"Yeah, well!" Halo paused trying to think up and appropriate come back. "You're unproportional!"
Apparently this was a touchy subject to the new girl.
Chapter Four: The School Equipment Gets Misused
The dream of being a super hero still stuck in Halo's mind. She added it to her list of things to do in life. It grew on her even more and became almost an obsession. She was never as serious before about anything that she ever wanted, besides that trip to Mt. Fuji…
Telinka gave Halo a worried look; she seemed to be drifting away from the class again. Halo's eyes had glazed over and held a vacant expression as they stared plastered on her emotionless face holding the consciousness of a child watching television.
The eyelids seemed to grow heavier, and slowly, so very slowly sank into the folds of the shadowed bags that had formed under her eyes. As this happened she began to sink, just as slowly into her seat growing smaller and smaller until all that was left was a head resting on a desk emitting a small puddle of drool.
Telinka feared that if she startled Halo that she would fall out of the desk completely or become surprised enough to draw he teacher's attention.
Telinka thought for a brief second trying to decide what she should do in a delicate case as this. Unfortunately this brief second was all to brief and before she had a chance to respond the new girl began to shriek sending Halo out of her slumber and onto the floor.
The world began to focus around Halo. She was sitting on the floor. She was under a desk. The desk was in the foreign language classroom. The desk belonged to her. She shouldn't be sitting on the floor in this particular class. Halo jumped back into her desk just as the pain in her tusk registered.
Thankfully the teacher wasn't paying any attention to Halo's location; instead she was attending to the new girl who was screaming something about genetically engineered dinosaurs coming after her.
In fact this particular display seemed to have captured the attention of most of the people in the class. Halo regarded it as nothing out of the ordinary. She was more experienced with the new girl.
This made it so that no one in the class noticed a face at the door except Halo. No one; except for Halo, noticed the boy push the door completely open and walk in. To Halo it was obvious that he wanted to speak with the teacher. She stood up, waited for him to notice her, and to her surprise he did.
He looked at her.
She looked at him.
It was him… the boy who never spoke. They silently looked at each other and Halo felt an immense feeling of ecstasy. The boy who never talked was looking at her. Then she realized that he rest of the class was as well. They had transferred their attention from the new girl. She didn't know where the new girl was until a desk hit her head from behind and she sank onto the floor unconscious.
The new girl began to shriek about how she had taken her revenge. Halo didn't see or hear this. Nor did she see the expression of the boy who never spoke's face.
Did he care? No one knows but him.
When Halo awoke for the second time that class period she was surrounded by a circle consisting of classmates, her teacher, and the school nurse. The boy was gone, or at least she didn't see him. In fact she was having trouble seeing much of anything.
Telinka stared apathetically at Halo; seeing that her friend was alive she turned away to get a head start on today's homework.
One of the gushers in Halo's class started to cry again and one of her gusher friends gave her a hug, then they began to cry together.
Halo couldn't see the new girl and for a brief moment she wondered if the boy who never spoke had run off with her, but after Telinka moved the could see that she was climbing out a window, while gnawing on the curtains…
In other words nothing seemed to be unusual, At least that was what Halo thought than.
Later when Halo would look back in her life (more specifically a chapter or two from now) she would realize that this was the turning point in her life. Until that point she had been a normal girl. A normal girl with a normal life… A normal girl, who got a desk thrown at her in class that would forever change her life, or at least effect it for a while.