Disclaimer: I do not own Recess or any of its characters.
Author's Note: This is a new project that I'm starting that I am so excited about. It doesn't really concentrate on the Recess gang as much as Ashley A., King Bob, and Vince. Everybody else will be in the story, especially the other Ashley's and Lawson.
Chapter One
I Rule The School
I walk down the halls like one of those scenes from a teen movie, such as Mean Girls, when the Plastics walk down the hallway after giving Cady a delicious make-over. That's how we walk down the hallway. We, of course, being the Ashley's. People look at us, people stare at us. Girls whisper about how they wish they could look as good as us in our outfits. Boys whisper about how they wish they could get us out of those same outfits.
I know that in those movies the popular girls always end up learning a lesson, or whatever. But, who needs to learn a lesson when you're a sophomore who is captain of the cheerleading squad, dating the star player of the basketball team, and the all-knowing gossip queen.
My perfect boyfriend, Vince LaSalle, is not only the star basketball player, as a sophomore himself, but the greatest guy ever. He listens to me and my gossip about his old group of friends, and all of our friends nowadays. He gets me drinks when we are at parties and is ultimately whipped by me. He is totally wrapped around my little finger. And if that doesn't make a great boyfriend, I don't know what does.
The cheerleading squad consists of the Ashley's (including me, obviously), a couple of juniors, and two seniors. I, as only a sophomore and only my second year of being on the squad was chosen to be captain. I know when the juniors and seniors look at me, they are very disgusted. How could it be possible that I already have the captain spot taken?
The Ashley's are the greatest friends ever. We can share gossip, make-up, and tampons together. We have always been there for each other, while still comparing money, cars, and accessories. A healthy competition is expectant in friendships however, and the way I won the reign of the Ashley's was because I was the richest.
It's really funny how, as only being a sophomore, the school looks up to me. All the older guys look at me with desire, but since I have a great boyfriend, I don't even give them a second glance. I can walk into class twenty minutes late, and the teachers don't care, they look at me like I'm some kind of goddess just by the cheers I am able to lead on Friday and Saturday nights.
I know that I, Ashley Armbruster, absolutely, without a doubt control the entire school, popular and non popular alike. I keep a tight reign, letting nobody escape harsh scrutiny and endless teasing. I do not allow anybody to become too popular. I rule the school.
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I make the winning basket, the crowd cheers for me. I'm on top of the world. I walk down the hallway with a slight swagger in my step and people congratulate me wherever I go. They tell me that I'm the best basketball player this school has ever seen. Which, I can't deny, because I know that I am. I act up in class, and the teachers don't say anything because I'm their favorite student. All because I can play basketball.
Basketball has always been my life passion, and now that it comes with basketball buddies, a hot girlfriend, and getting away with anything in school, I have become even more obsessed with it. My basketball buddies consist of my old childhood rival, Lawson, and a couple of other starters. We get into lots of mischief and like to pull pranks on people. There is nothing as funny as watching Gus Griswald open his locker to have a snake jump out at him.
My girlfriend, Ashley A., is the hottest girl in the entire school. And the most dutiful girlfriend a guy could want. She stays on my arm at parties, praising me and telling me that I'm the best ever. She comes naturally this way, while my best bud, Lawson, is having problems training his girlfriend, she doesn't like to shower him with compliments. Ashley's also already been trained to be submissive and do what I would like to do, go to the parties I want to, and just basically let me have it my way. I definitely have that girl wrapped around my little finger.
When I get called into the principal's office, it's the best feeling of my life. Menlo used to give me a look like I was going to get in deep trouble, but the second I stepped into the principal's office, we would start joking around about last week's game. And then he would give me a very weak warning, and a wink before sending me off about my day. I got away with everything.
The only people who did not seem to be totally enamored with me were my old friends. When I walk down the hallway they look at me with contempt in their faces. I used to feel bad for those faces they would send me, but I later came to realize they were probably just jealous.
I know that I, Vince LaSalle, control this school in a way that is almost laughable. I'm only a sophomore, yet I can break someone's reputation, make a winning shot, and go to the best parties all in one night. People can barely move in our high school without my permission. Walk down my hallway without my permission? You are sure as heck going to get teased mercilessly, or, in certain cases, mobbed. The greatest part about this is that I've still got two years to completely control this school.
I totally rule this school.
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I look at the silly sophomores who think they have control of this school. Vince LaSalle thinks that just because he can make a basket or two he will be the most popular boy in the school for his entire high school career. And Ashley Armbruster thinks just because she beat out some real cheerleaders for the spot of captain and the fact that she is dating Vince LaSalle that she will be queen of this school.
I am a senior. I used to have those same fantasies that I would be in control of the school forever. I mean, heck, I was King Bob when I was in grade school, why couldn't that carry over into high school? I was the best basketball player on the team until Vince LaSalle showed up. So, if he thinks he's going to be the ruler of this school forever, wait until some stupid freshman comes and takes his spot and then a year later he swaggers around like nobody can do anything without his permission.
I might sound a little bitter, but I'm really not. Because I know that when I watch as Vince LaSalle makes the winning shot, or as Ashley A. walks down the hallway, that they are fleeting competition. See, people see me as an icon. They look up to my leadership and guidance in a way that Vince and Ashley will never get. I am the ultimate in popularity, anybody that comes after me is set up to a standard of me.
They get to attend the best parties in the school, but I throw, heck, I am the life of these parties. Without me there, these parties would not be the cool ones. Jordan and Jerome will testify for that. They get to declare their own hallways, and if anybody walks down their hallways without their permission, they have the right to do whatever it is they do to them. But, I own all the hallways, I pretty much gave them the right to claim their own hallways. If I see somebody I don't like down any hallway, I have the right to harass them. And I don't get in trouble for it either, because I am inadvertently in control of the school.
So, while Vince LaSalle and Ashley A. seem to be in control of the school right now, they don't see what I see. They don't see the future, the future where I maintain my status as the absolute best at everything. Despite Vince's sudden stardom in the basketball team, I am still going to a good college to play basketball, where I won't be overshadowed by Vince, and maybe in the future the two of us can actually compete on a college floor.
So, King Vince and Queen Ashley are about to learn a very valuable lesson that will last them for the rest of their lives. And that lesson, of course, is that I, Robert (often referred to as Bob), rule this school.