When I first heard that my best friend was going to an all boys school I was mostly just upset. I didn't even think about why or how she was able to get in. The only thing I could think of was that she was leaving me.
"Fuck that." I say when she picks up the phone. "You're not leaving me."
"Well hello to you to." She says. She's trying to be strong, funny, but her voice is shaky and I can tell she's been crying.
"Gennie you can't go."
"Well it's not like I want to, Kelsi."
"There's gotta be something we can do." I say. I get up from my laying position on my bed and sit with my legs folded underneath me. I look up in the mirror that stands across from my bed attached to my dresser. My hair sits in a loose ponytail and one of the straps on my tank-top hangs over the edge of my shoulder. I lift it up and rest my chin in my free palm.
"I'm all out of ideas. My mom said that since we were getting a fresh start anyways that it'd be a good idea if I went to a bully free school and Dalton has a no bully policy." I can remember all the times we got bullied by the other girls in school. It was never the guys, they actually thought we were worth talking to. For some reason we had enrolled in the one school where almost every girl was a bully. It's kind of ironic if you really think about it. Just then I had an amazing idea.
"Wait!" I all but scream into the phone. I can sense Gennie pulling the phone away from her head and wincing. "What if I come with you?" Silence. "Gennie?"
"Well yeah, my parents wouldn't have a problem with that, but what about yours?"
"Oh please." I say. "They don't care what I do as long as I'm safe, and the friggen principle is my uncle! Gennie we'll rule that school!"
"I don't know Kels, are you really sure you'd want to pack up and move to a completely different place?"
"Positive. Anything for us" I say. "And even more so because I know I'll be going with you." All at once her mood changes and she screames into the phone.
"Oh my god! I can't believe we're doing this!"
"I know!" I'm bobbing up and down on my bed now.
"Kelsi I love you!"
"I love you too man," I say already thinking about what I'm going to pack.