News Worth Falling Over For
"What?" I ask falling backwards in my seat. I was seating in the principal's office with 4 of my friends*. "I said that you will all be going to the world conference. You where chosen out of all the high school students in the nation to go to the world conference. Tomorrow you will be flown out of Chicago to D.C to attend and the meeting will start on Wednesday. This is a great honor and I will expect you to behave well and to give our school a good name." says Mr. Conroy in his scary German accent. I jump up do a little dance and hear some squeals of delight from behind me.
"But sir, I don't remember signing up for anything. Nor do I remember any of us signing up for something like this", says a calm, level headed voice from next to me. I sigh and look over to Lizzie. Her piercing green eyes look straight into my brown ones as she motions me to sit back down. She reminds me of a teacher, calm, bossy, smart and boring. I shake my head no and flash her a smile. She pushes her glasses up higher on her nose, rolls her eyes and turns her attention back to Mr. Conroy. She so reminds me of a teacher.
"Your teachers and I suggested that you all would be great candidates for this trip to the head of education." He says running a hand through his balding hair. "You chose her. Out of all the people in the school you just had to go chose her?" Lizzie says pointing a finger at me. Her voice is questioning and bored at the same time. "Hey what do you mean by that?" I ask pretending to pout. "I mean that they just had to go pick the most annoying, talkative, hyperactive, idiotic person in the whole school. I strongly doubt that I will ever meet anyone more annoying then you in my life." Her voice replies lazily. My pout wavers a second before I turn it in to one of my smiles.
"Oh, come on you looooove it," I reply letting my sing-song voice fill the room as I plop down in my chair. "What would ever give you that idea?" she retorts. "Well the fact we are still best friends after 14 years." Cause it is true. Her family moved from England when she was two. In fact they moved in right next to me. She was mean and a jerk till we turned three then she started to warm up to me. We have been best friends since (as long as you don't bring up the noodle incident. It was not my fault).
She doesn't respond and my smile grows because I know that I have won. I lean back in my seat, plop my feet up on the desk in the same position I was in before. "Beth, can you please get your feet off Mr. Conroy's desk. Please," says the faintest whisper from the corner of the room. Everyone jumps slightly and looks to see where the voice came from. "Who said that," asks Kae. I do a face palm right there cause in that corner is my meek, shy, and sweet cousin May. She actually mistaken as my sister once or twice or she is mistaken as me.
There is a bit of a difference between me and her. She is so quiet that she can sometimes, well most of the time, fade into the background. Our friends sometimes forget her or mistake her as me. I don't know why though she doesn't look that much like me. We both have the shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes, though hers are darker, other than that though we don't look that much the same. We have to completely different styles. I'm always in the latest style or in a tank top or in jeans or jean shorts with my hair up in a ponytail. Plus my good luck bluish green agate necklace that kind of looks like an eye if you hold it up to the light. May is almost always in a sweatshirt and jeans. Oh yeah May is Canadian and I'm all out American.
She lived here till she was two then moved up to Montreal where her mother's family is. She moved back here a few years ago. She is mostly quiet but can once in a while go on a talking spree or as Shannon says she gets verbal diarrhea. During these times she speaks so fast that I can barely keep up with her. Plus she rapidly switches from English to French and back again. She does this often enough that I am taking in now in high school to help me understand her better. I can happily say that I have been taking it for 4 years now and still can't understand her very well when she gets going.
"Ve who is there?" it's Shannon who asks this time. I glance at May who is use to this by now and I get partly annoyed when she just shrugs her shoulders and puts on a small smile. "I'm May," she whispers. "Who," the other 3 girls chant in unison. I get up and put an arm around May. "Oh, come on you guys. May. She likes maple coffee, eats pancakes for lunch every other day**." I just get a blank stare back from the girls. "May, my cousin" I give them a half-ass evil eye and they quickly apologized. "And you call me thick headed," I mumble under my breath. Thump. "Owww, why did you do that Liz?" "It's because you are thick headed and you really shouldn't mumble." She says crossing her arms.
"Can we please get back on track now" May chimes. We nod. "Do our parents know I mean with the short notice and all," she asks. Mr. Conroy nods. "We already called your parents. Ms. Adam, Ms. Nelson, and Ms. Reynolds all have permission to go. Ms. Totoro your 18 and your mother said that it was up to you. Ms. Addario we didn't call your parents. You're 19, in collage so it's up to you. Frankly, though I don't even know why you are here now." He states. Well she is here because she didn't have any classes today and had decided to come visit us for lunch. "Ve I'm he-"he cuts her off. "It was a fact not a question. This trip is free except for spending money. It will be anywhere from a week to 3 weeks long depending on the topics and how fast they get through them. You can all now leave for lunch then after that, go home to pack." He says glaring at us. We leave his office as fast as we can.
*Lizzie Reynolds, Kae Totoro, Shannon Addario, and May Nelson
**which is not true but it does seem like it sometimes
To readers,
Hey People. I guess this is where I should tell you that this has a lot of OCs in it. Dont worry much the later chapters will have all the awesome countries that we know and love in it. Sorry for the grammer mistakes and any other mistakes that might have been in it. oh yes and this is the reposting of Cities Meet the World for the few of you wo care. Review! Please! I don't even care if they are telling me how awful my story is. Anyway thanks to all you readers. XD
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