I like writing these drabble-type oneshots. They're actually quite fun, and they're even better when you're writing from the point of view of relatively unspoken-for characters. Note: not original characters, but those characters we saw sneak peeks of in the Sky High movie.
Because, after 4 years of honing my writing skills, I'd prefer not to throw it all away with a poorly written Mary Sue.
This is probably my first shot in a few good years at writing something (even a drabble) in first-person perspective. So be gentle. It's been a while.
(Note: This is loosely tied to What Would Two-Face Do?, simply because it makes a few points that Gwen brings up in her drabble.)
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I'm a senior, okay?
And I'm dating a sophomore.
If that's not weird enough, I'm a senior girl dating a sophomore guy.
I mean, there are always those senior manwhores in every class that date/sleep with freshman girls. But no respectable senior girl actually dates an underclassman. It's just not done.
Okay, it might be done at, like, other schools, but at Sky High? No way.
There are still people that go here that freak out if a Hero dates a Hero Supporter. All right, those are (mostly) only the hardcore Heroes whose parents where heroes and grandparents where Heroes and great-grandparents were Heroes, etc. But you get what I'm talking about.
In fact, the only reason I even considered the idea of dating a sophomore was only because of Gwen Grayson. Before she turned batshit crazy and took a nosedive off the deep end, I was kind of friends with her. I know it sounds vain, but we were both pretty, popular, senior girls. We had a lot of the same advanced-level Hero classes together, and she was always willing to help me out in Medulla's Making Your Own Weapons 101 class.
So I can be honest when I say that I was pretty freakin' surprised when Gwen started dating a freshman. True, it wasn't until he'd already revealed his superstrength to the entire school that she actually started dating him, but still! A freshman!
Really, it's kind of gross. I mean, an eighteen-year-old dating a fourteen-year-old? I mean, how skeevy is that?
But, as I mentioned before, Gwen's a pretty, popular, senior girl, so no one said a word about how skeevy they may or may not have thought it was.
Yeah, it turned out that Gwen was only using him so she could use the freshman, Will, to get into his parents' (Commander and Jetstream) Secret Sanctum. But that's not the point.
The point is, Gwen wasn't afraid to date a guy who was four years her junior, even if it was only to use him shamelessly for his connections. And, while I do still think she's a sociopath, as a fellow senior girl I could really appreciate her confidence and certainty.
When Homecoming ended with an official bang, I figured there was no harm in trying. If Gwen could date a freshman and get away with it, I didn't see why anyone would think twice about my dating a sophomore.
Besides, if anyone was stupid enough to say something about my boyfriend, I'd just ice them. I'm not called the Ice Queen for nothing.
Not to mention, if I wasn't around to ice whatever moron was stupid to badmouth either one of us, I have no doubt that Warren would just turn them into human shish kabobs.
It's not particularly fun calling an angry, sophomore pyro my boyfriend, but, occasionally, it does have its perks.
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I'm definitely going to continue writing these drabbles, I just don't know who I'll write about next.
And I like writing for Jenny Frost (as I like to call her). If we're going to base this on Disney's sometimes unimaginative standards, I assumed Jenny would be the perfect antithesis to Warren. Blonde, perky cheerleader-type with tons of friends to the loner, badass type.
